Is there an attribute here?

JanasFrageByJanasFrage

Hey, I'm currently revisiting sentence structures for my upcoming 10th-grade German exam. The sentence is: "Levi is buying a new phone card." Here, Levi is the noun, and "buys" is a predicate. The aunt in my video says that "a new phone card" is the object. I'm wondering, though, whether "new" isn't an attribute in this case. After all, you can form an attribute clause from it and ask about it with "which phone card?" Am I wrong? And if so, how else can I recognize an attribute? Best regards

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spanferkel14
spanferkel14
1 year ago

Yes, “new” is the attribute (in the form of an adjective) to “phone card”.

What do you recognize attributes? The function of an attribute is to describe one thing. This can happen in various ways. We ask the attribute or the attribute set with “Welch_ …? What…?”

  • Welshe phone card? – The new phone card. (adjectivattribute)
  • Welsh– The man with the glasses. (prepositional attribute)
  • Welshit service? – Meissen porcelain service. (prepositional attribute)
  • Welsh– Astérix, the Gaul. (Activity)
  • WelshDr. Kusenluker, the dentist. (Activity)
  • Welshthe house of the veterinarian. (Genitivattribute)
  • Welshhe car? – Our neighbor’s car. (Genitivattribute)
  • Welshe people? – The people living on the ground floor. (Attribute set: relative set)
  • What Houses? (Attribute set: relative set)
  • What an exotic country. (adjectivattribute)
  • What Meat? – Meat without bone (prepositional attribute)
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DerKalif
DerKalif
1 year ago

Attributes are always only parts of sentence members, so you both are right: The whole phrase a new phone card is the battery object [Who or what buys Levi?] – and new is an attributive adjective that the noun Telephone card more precisely.

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