Vor, bevor or davor? 3 German words for 'before' explained
5/11/20268 min
Thomas explains how German handles the word "before". You'll see when to use "vor", "bevor" and "davor", with clear example sentences that show each one in context. By the end, you'll know exactly which word to reach for and when. Which one trips you up the most?
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Einen wunderschönen guten Tag und willkommen bei Coffee Break German. My name is Thomas and for today's episode I have picked one of your all-time favorite topics, German grammar. Well, actually today it's a little bit of grammar and a little bit of vocabulary because we are having a look at three different German words that all mean the exact same word in English. The challenge here is to know when to choose which word, and that all depends on the grammatical construction we use for our sentence [upbeat music] Also, let's have a look at vor, bevor, and dafür, the three German words for before. Let's start with our first German word for before, the preposition vor. The rules here are really quite clear. You use vor before a noun. So if you want to say before dinner, you would say vor dem Abendessen. Or before my holiday to Austria, vor meinem Urlaub nach Österreich. Or to give you a full sentence we could say, "Don't leave before