"Duo buys a new plane every week."
Translation:Duo kauft jede Woche ein neues Flugzeug.
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Would it still be impossible if we wanted to emphasise the "jede Woche" part? "He buys a new plane every week, can you imagine?", stuff like that? :)
If you want to emphasise an aspect, you bring it to the front in German: Jede Woche kauft Duo ein neues Flugzeug
In German, after the subject and the first verb, time usually comes first (TeKaMoLo = 1) Temporal, 2) Kausal, 3) Modal, 4)Lokal)
https://www.fluentu.com/blog/german/german-sentence-structure/
Thus: Duo kauft 1) jede Woche 2) aufgrund des Flugzeug-Verschleißes 3) mit der Kreditkarte 4) am Flughafen...ein neues Flugzeug.
Kind of silly example, but to demonstrate the preffered order of syntax. You can take any of them out and place it before the first verb:
Jede Woche kauft Duo aufrgrund des Flugzeugverschleißes mit der Kreditkarte am Flughafen ein neues Flugzeug.
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@mizinamo In general is not always, what are the cases where we can put the adverbs at the end? Thanks
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No, that feels unidiomatic although I cannot refer to a rule why that is so.
You could put it at the beginning: Jede Woche kauft Duo ein Fl.
And with a different adverbial it works at the end: Duo kauft ein Fl. pro Woche.
Why is it: Duo kauft jede Woche ein neues Flugzeug but not Duo kauft ein neues Flugzeug jede Woche ? I chose the second and got it wrong, a bit confused at why
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Generally, in German, the object of the sentence (here - "ein neues Flugzeug") tends to come at the very end. Think of it as ending a story with the punchline - you don't get to hear what it is that Duo buys until the very end. ;) Also, any temporal clauses ("jede Woche") tend to go right after the verb, though that is a little more flexible. See also the comments above.
Genau. See my comment above referencing German syntax and word order (we learnt this order as "TeKaMoLo").
