When to use it
Use it when driving in a city and you want a covered car park that does not cost much.
The sentence in English (“I'm looking for cheap underground parking.”)
"I'm looking for cheap underground parking" puts two adjectives before "parking".
- I'm
- contractionbe · tense: present · person: first · number: singular · contraction of "I am"
- looking
- verblook · form: -ing form · "am looking for" is an action happening now
- for
- prepositionpreposition; "look for" means "search"
- cheap
- adjectiveadjective
- underground
- adjectiveadjective; below street level
- parking
- nounnoun
The sentence in German (“Ich suche eine günstige Tiefgarage.”)
"Ich suche eine günstige Tiefgarage" uses one compound, "Tiefgarage", for underground parking. "Günstig" is the polite word for cheap.
- Ich
- pronoun"I"
- suche
- verbsuchen · tense: present · mood: indicative · person: first · number: singular · "I look for"
- eine
- determinerindefinite article, feminine: "a"
- günstige
- adjective"cheap", "good value"; feminine ending -e
- Tiefgarage
- nounfeminine compound noun: tief (deep) + Garage, "underground car park"
What changes from one language to the other (English × German)
English needs "underground parking"; German has one word, "Tiefgarage". "Günstig" sounds nicer than "billig", which can mean cheap and poor quality.
Example conversation
— Ich suche eine günstige Tiefgarage.
— I'm looking for cheap underground parking.
— Unter dem Marktplatz gibt es eine.
— There's one under the market square.