"Mit dem Mittagessen trinken wir Wein."
Translation:We drink wine with the lunch.
December 27, 2012
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The word order is wrong.
http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa032700a.htm (see "verb second")
nhaines
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The dative phrase is "mit dem Mittagessen". So that's the first position. "Trinken" comes next in the second position, and then the subject "wir" follows.
1[Wir] 2[trinken] 3[Wein] 4[mit dem Mittagessen]. 1[Mit dem Mittagessen] 2[trinken] 3[wir] 4[Wein].