A new home and new neighbours: word patterns and word order

Knowing key word patterns helps us understand words more quickly and recall them more easily. Add 'Haupt-' to nouns to mean 'main'. The created noun has the gender of its base noun: 'die Idee' - 'die Hauptidee'. 'Wo' is the question word 'where'; it asks where something is located and is answered in the dative case. 'Wohin' is the question word 'where to'; it asks where something is going and is answered in the accusative case. Start German sentences with any element (e.g., object, adverb) to emphasise it. The verb stays in 2nd place.