In linguistic typology, time–manner–place is a sentence structure that defines the order of adpositional phrases and adverbs in a sentence: "yesterday", "by car", "to the store".
Japanese, Afrikaans,[1] Dutch,[2][3] Mandarin, and German[4] use this structure.
An example of this appositional ordering in German is: IchIfahredriveheutetodaymitwithdemtheAutocarnachtoMünchen.Munich.Ich fahre heute mit dem Auto nach München.I drive today with the car to Munich.I'm travelling to Munich by car today.The temporal phrase – heute (when?
– "today") – comes first, the manner – mit dem Auto (how?
– "by car") – is second, and the place – nach München (where?