German sentence structure

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German sentence structure is the structure to which the German language adheres. The basic sentence in German follows SVO word order.^[1] Additionally, German, like all west Germanic languages except English,^{[note 1]} uses V2 word order, though only in independent clauses. In dependent clauses, the finite verb is placed last.

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