Inspektor
inspector
In German, the term 'Inspektor' is used to denote a person who is responsible for inspecting or examining something. This could be in various contexts such as law enforcement, quality control, or safety inspections. For instance, a police inspector in Germany would be referred to as 'Polizeiinspektor'. The term is gender-neutral and can be used for both male and female inspectors.
Example sentences using: Inspektor
Inspektor Schmidt ist sehr gründlich.
Inspector Schmidt is very thorough.
In this sentence, 'Inspektor Schmidt' is the subject who is performing the action. The predicate, or what he is doing, is being 'very thorough' ('sehr gründlich').
Das ist der Inspektor von unserer Schule.
That is the inspector from our school.
The sentence specifies who the 'inspector' is and his relationship to the school referenced using 'unserer Schule', meaning 'our school'. The structure here is SVO (Subject Verb Object), which is commonly used in German sentences.
Sind Sie der neue Inspektor?
Are you the new inspector?
This sentence is written using the formal form of 'you' ('Sie') as it being addressed to an inspector, who is presumably an authority figure. The order of 'Sie' and 'der neue Inspektor' is swapped because this is a question.