6.8 Transport and prepositions

Going somewher by means of transport

Whilst English talks of travelling "by" a means of transport (with no definite article), German uses the preposition "mit" with the appropriate form of the definite article in the dative case - e.g. "Ich fahre mit dem Rad", "er fährt mit dem Flugzeug". The preposition "mit" always takes the dative case.

 

Here is how you would describe travelling by the most common means of transport in German: