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Topic test · B1

es phrases test

10questions
8minutes
60%pass mark
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Topic test

10 questions, easy to hard

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In dieser Stadt es viele Parks.

There are many parks in this city.

gibt — “there is / there are” is expressed with one fixed phrase in German: es gibt. Translating word by word from English does not give es ist or es hat.

Es gibt hier (ein guter Arzt).

There is a good doctor here.

einen guten Arzt — es gibt always takes its object in the Akkusativ. Masculine der Arzt becomes einen in the Akkusativ, and the adjective takes the ending -en.

Im Text geht um die Umwelt.

The text is about the environment.

Being about something, having something as its topic -> es geht um.

ist wichtig, dass wir gesund essen.

It’s important that we eat healthily.

The placeholder “es” is used to fill the empty subject slot in the main clause.

Worum es in dem Film?

What is the film about?

geht — the phrase for “to be about …” is es geht um. The question form is built with worum: “What is the film about?”

Leider gibt es mehr. (kein Zimmer)

Unfortunately there are no rooms left.

kein Zimmer — es gibt takes the Akkusativ, but das Zimmer is neuter; neuter nouns do not change in the Akkusativ, so kein stays the same.

Morgen wird regnen.

It will rain tomorrow.

With weather events (regnen, schneien) the subject is always es.

tut mir leid, dass ich keine Zeit habe.

I’m sorry that I have no time.

Es. In the phrase es tut mir leid, es is the temporary subject. It is a fixed expression of regret.

Build the sentence: There’s a good restaurant here. (ein gutes Restaurant)

Tap the pieces to build the sentence

Es gibt hier ein gutes Restaurant. The phrase es gibt (there is) always takes an Akkusativ object. das Restaurant stays singular.

Gibt es hier einen Arzt? — this sentence is grammatically correct.

True. Because it is a question, gibt has moved to the front, and Arzt (der) is correctly in the Akkusativ (einen).
Quick rules

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  1. es gibt always takes the Akkusativ

    The noun after the phrase es gibt (there is / there are) must be in the Akkusativ (der -> den).

    Es gibt keinen Kaffee mehr.

Traps

Commonly mixed up

Where a direct translation breaks. The hard questions come from here.

  • Heute gibt es sonnig.

    Heute ist es sonnig.

    With weather adjectives (sonnig, windig) you do not use “es gibt”; you use “ist” directly.