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How to Say ‘And how many people are working on it?’ in German

Und wie viele Leute arbeiten daran?

oont vee FEE-leh LOY-tuh AR-bye-ten dah-RAHN

[oont vee FEE-leh LOY-tuh AR-bye-ten dah-RAHN]

💬 Usage Tip: daran stands in for an dem Projekt "on the project", because arbeiten an is how German says "work on". Germans use da- plus the preposition instead of saying "it": darüber "about it", damit "with it".

Phrase Breakdown

Und wie viele Leute

oont vee FEE-leh LOY-tuh

And how many people

Question phrase for counting people. 'Leute' sounds like LOY-teh.

Example

Und wie viele Leute sind hier?

And how many people are here?

Words in this phrase

Und

[oont]

and

A conjunction used to connect sentences or elements in a sentence.

Example

Und ich freue mich.

And I am happy.

wie

[vee]

how

Question word asking about manner or state.

Example

Wie geht es dir?

How are you?

viele

[FEE-leh]

many

Plural form of 'viel'; with 'wie' it asks 'how many'.

Example

Wie viele Gäste kommen heute?

How many guests are coming today?

Leute

[LOY-tuh]

people

Human beings making up a group or community.

Example

Viele schlaue Leute arbeiten hier.

Many smart people work here.

arbeiten daran?

AR-bye-ten dah-RAHN

are working on it?

'arbeiten an' means to work on. 'daran' means 'on it', stressed at the end: da-RAN.

Example

Ich arbeite daran.

I'm working on it.

Words in this phrase

arbeiten

[AR-bye-ten]

to work

Verb meaning to perform job tasks or labor.

Example

Allein arbeiten kann sehr konzentriert sein.

Working alone can be very focused.

daran

[dah-RAHN]

on it

Refers to working on something already mentioned; da + an.

Example

Ich arbeite gerade daran.

I'm working on it right now.

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