word order is the other big difference. romance languages normally put adjectives after the nouns to which they refer. for example, in english, a person may say "i like fast cars", but in spanish, it is "me gustan los coches rápidos". the order of the words has changed: if just the words, without the grammar, are translated into english, it would mean 'to me they please the cars fast'. this is because spanish and english have different rules about word order. in german, verbs often come near the end of sentences (as: "die katze hat die nahrung gegessen"), whereas in english we usually put them between subject and object, as: "the cat has eaten the food".