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- "Do you go as well?"
"Do you go as well?"
Translation:Gehst du auch?
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Why is "Macht" shown as clue if it doesn't have anything to do with the sentence?
Because 'to go' is gehen and 'to come' is kommen. 'kommst du auch' means 'are you coming as well?'
"zu" is generally used to indicate going "to" a particular place, or to say something is "too" much. For example:
Ich gehe zur (zu der) Bank.
Die Suppe ist zu heiß!
It's not really used to say "also" or "as well". For that you use auch.
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I wrote "Gehst auch du?" and it was wrong. But does it mean anything else, or is it nonsense?
The correct order for that sentence is "Gehst du auch?" since the subject immediately follows the verb in a question.
Thank you, this was helpful! For some reason I was never taught that in a question, the subject must immediately follow the verb.
How come it's "Gehst du auch?" and not "Gehst auch du?"?
In another exercise someone explained that adverbs should be next to the verb like this "Ich komme auch aus Deutschland" The verb (komme) and the adverb (auch) are together. But that does not seem to apply to the sentence above.
Correct, the adverb should come after the verb in a normal sentence. However, the structure of a question in German demands that the verb comes first in the sentence, and then the pronoun of du must come after, pushing the adverb auch directly behind it. If it sounds complicated, that's because it sort of is.
