"Steht das Auto vor deinem Tor?"

Translation: Is the car parked in front of your gate?

[carli1195]

Sorry but Brits would say 'at the door' rather than 'before the door'. Fair enough to accept the latter but don't mark the former as wrong!

[PotatoSanta]

Not ''At your gate'?

[JackYakov]

why "before the door" not be accepted

[Pisan_de_Paris]

I think it should be, as it is technically correct, but it is a little archaic. When we say "before" in modern English, it is usually a reference to time, but it can still refer to space, and would be understood. "Is this a dagger I see before me?" "The children grow up before our very eyes." And so on... But it is a little bit literary-sounding, and not as common in daily speech as it used to be.

[PaigeBreis]

Why not "at your door"?

[cumbuck3t]

Tor = Tür?

[sakasiru]

Tor = gate; Tür = door
However, it's perfectly fine to say "steht das Auto vor deiner Tür?" even if you mean the garden gate.

[AdrianJosh]

So steht here translate to is, still, and/or currently

[sakasiru]

Here, it is transtated to "is parked"

[FlavioHualpa]

I do not understand how Steht works here. Is it past tense? Or can I say "Ich Stehe das Auto", I park the car, or "Stehe ich das Auto?" Should I park the car?

[XoooOverdose]

What is the point of "Steht? Why cant it simply be "Es"?

[sakasiru]

Steht is the verb, the action of the sentence. You can't replace it by a pronoun, just as you don't replace "is...parked" with "it" for no reason.

[mdb71169]

You are correct, but DL gives one of the correct responses as "is the car in front of your gate"

[sakasiru]

That would be "ist" then, not "es".

[XoooOverdose]

Danke!

[WandererBo]

The noted translation for the "steht" is "stands" I have never heard that a car stands somewhere. In this context one more meaningful translation for the verb stehen is to stop.

[sakasiru]

But to stop would be the act of arriving and then halting. Stehen just means it is parking there, maybe for decades already. I don't think you should translated that with to stop.

[KadagnKlep]

One of the correct answers provided has Parked. Then why is the German phrase Steht and not Stand?

[sakasiru]

"is...parked" is passive, not past.

[MarkGrand]

I am confused by this translation. I would have thought that the German for, "Is the car parked in front of your gate" would be, "Ist das Auto vor deinem Tor geparkt?". In the USA, there is a distinction between a car that is stopped (the engine is on and the driver is at the wheel), standing (the engine is off and the driver is at the wheel) and a car that is parked (the engine is off and the driver is not at the wheel). Is there such a distinction in German or do stehen and parken mean exactly the same thing when applied to an auto?