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wohnst

Wohnst is the second-person singular present tense form of the German verb wohnen, meaning to live or to reside. It is used with the informal subject pronoun du, as in Du wohnst in Berlin. The corresponding formal form is Sie wohnen. The infinitive is wohnen and the past participle is gewohnt. The simple past for du does not exist in standard spoken German; past forms use haben+gewohnt in combination with other verbs or the preterite forms in writing.

Origin and related forms: The verb woh­nen derives from Old High German wônen, with roots in Proto-Germanic

Usage notes: wohnen is a regular weak verb. In questions and statements, the form wohnst is used

See also: wohnen, German grammar, pronunciation guides.

and
cognates
in
other
Germanic
languages,
such
as
Dutch
wonen
and
Swedish
bo.
The
term
is
common
across
German-speaking
regions
and
appears
in
everyday
sentences
as
well
as
in
literature.
with
du,
for
example,
Wo
wohnst
du?
or
Du
wohnst
bei
deinen
Eltern.
It
often
combines
with
prepositions
to
express
location,
such
as
in
der
Wohnung
wohnen
(to
live
in
the
apartment)
or
in
einer
Stadt
wohnen
(to
live
in
a
city).
Because
German
verbs
are
capitalized
only
when
starting
a
sentence
or
in
titles,
wohnst
is
written
in
lowercase
in
normal
text.