"We work in Spain, too."

Translation: Wir arbeiten auch in Spanien.

[SharonNaor]

Does that mean: We work in Spain- as in other countries
or- We too work in Spain?

[Max.Em]

Both is possible, depends on the context or how it is said. To distinguish between the two in writing you'd have to say

• "Auch wir arbeiten in Spanien." or
• "Auch in Spanien arbeiten wir."

to get a fixed coupling between auch and the subject or a complement. That's due to the rule that the verb takes the second position, so everything before must be one "unit".

[SharonNaor]

Thanks a lot!

[Hkon505795]

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