German Temporal Prepositions
“Wann treffen wir uns?” (When Shall we meet?), “Wann bist du in dein neues Haus gezogen?” (When did you move to your new house?), “Wann kommt der Zug an?” (When does the train arrive?) To answer these type of questions in German, all you need to know are a few basic prepositions of time!
Remember!
All of the prepositions of time in this lesson are used with dative case. Do you want to practice dative case?
| Preposition (+Article) | Rules with examples |
|---|---|
| no preposition | years: 1992, 2009 Example: |
| im | seasons: im Sommer, im Winter Example: months: im Januar, im Februar Example: |
| am | days/holidays: am Montag, am Freitag, am Herrentag Example: dates: am 12. Mai, am 1. Januar 2022 Example: parts of the day: am Morgen, am Mittag, am Vormittag (exception: in de Nacht) Example: |
| um | time: um 9.00 Uhr, um Mitternacht (at midnight) Example: |
Exercise 1
| Preposition (+Article) | Rules with examples |
|---|---|
| ⇥ bis | till/until Example: |
| von/ab ↦ | from/as of Example: |
| ⇥ zwischen ⇤ | between Example: |
| ⤠ seit | since/for Example: |
| von ⇔ bis | from – to/till/until Used with days, months and times of day (without articles), years, clock times Example: |
| vom ⇔ bis zum | from – to/till/until Used with dates, times of day (with article) Example: |