When to use it
Use it before going shopping on a Sunday. In Germany most supermarkets are closed on Sundays.
The sentence in English: “Is the supermarket open on Sundays?”
"Is the supermarket open on Sundays?" uses "to be" with the adjective "open"; "on Sundays" means every Sunday.
- Is
- verbbe · tense: present · person: third · number: singular · form of "to be"; it moves to the front to make the question
- the
- determinerdefinite article
- supermarket
- nounnoun
- open
- adjectiveadjective; in English a shop "is open"
- on
- prepositionpreposition used with days of the week
- Sundays
- nounplural noun; days of the week take a capital letter
The sentence in German: “Hat der Supermarkt sonntags geöffnet?”
"Hat der Supermarkt sonntags geöffnet?" uses "haben": a shop "has open" in German. "Sonntags" is an adverb that means "on Sundays" and has a small letter.
- Hat
- verbhaben · tense: present · mood: indicative · person: third · number: singular · "has"; German says a shop "has open" (geöffnet haben)
- der
- determinerdefinite article, masculine: "the"
- Supermarkt
- nounmasculine noun: "supermarket"
- sonntags
- adverb"on Sundays", written with a small letter
- geöffnet
- adjective"open" (from "öffnen")
What changes from one language to the other: English × German
English says the shop "is" open; German says it "hat geöffnet". English needs "on Sundays"; German has the single adverb "sonntags". Both put the verb first to ask.
Example conversation
— Hat der Supermarkt sonntags geöffnet?
— Is the supermarket open on Sundays?
— Nein, nur der am Bahnhof.
— No, only the one at the station.