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"Wir fanden ihn im Zoo bei den Elefanten."
Translation:We found him in the zoo, with the elephants.
March 9, 2018
6 Comments
CraigTedma
487
I think they just left off some of the context..... Wir fanden ihn im Zoo bei den Elefanten. Sie hatten ihn zu Tode getrampelt.
CraigTedma
487
There is a rule/guideline that "general" normally precedes "specific", ie "Zoo" should precede "bei den Elefanten".
Works totally fine as a sentence.
You rearrange the "narration" a bit, though. The original sentence sounds like "we found him at the zoo; to be exact, we found him with the elephants / at the elephant compound"; your sentence sounds like "we found him with the elephants that are at the zoo / at the elephant compound of the zoo". Doesn't make an actual difference, of course, just saying.