German Phrase
Mein Flug kam aus Tokio.
Meaning
The sentence means ‘My flight came from Tokyo.’ It tells the listener the point of origin of the flight you were on, using the past tense to describe a completed journey.
When to use
Use this phrase when recounting a recent trip, answering questions about where your flight originated, or giving travel details in a conversation or email.
✦Grammar Breakdown
MeinFlugkamausTokio.
Possessive Determiner (Mein)
‘Mein’ is a possessive adjective that agrees with the gender, number, and case of the noun it modifies; here it is nominative masculine singular.
Noun (Flug)
‘Flug’ is a masculine noun (der Flug) in the nominative case, referring to the flight as a whole.
Preterite of kommen (kam)
‘kam’ is the simple past (Präteritum) form of ‘kommen’, used for past events in written or formal spoken German.
Preposition aus + Dative
‘aus’ means ‘from/out of’ and always governs the dative case; city names stay unchanged in dative (Tokio → Tokio).
Proper Noun (Tokio)
‘Tokio’ is a proper noun for the capital of Japan; it does not take an article and remains the same in the dative after ‘aus’.
🗨In Conversation
Woher kam dein Flug?
Where did your flight come from?
Mein Flug kam aus Tokio.
My flight came from Tokyo.
✕Common Mistakes
Mein Flug kam von Tokio.
‘von’ is not used with city names to express origin; use ‘aus’ instead.
Mein Flug kommt aus Tokio.
The present tense ‘kommt’ would imply the flight is arriving now, not that it already arrived.
Mein Flug kam aus Tokios.
German does not add an ’s’ for possessive; the city name stays unchanged.
↔Alternatives
Mein Flug stammt aus Tokio.
My flight originates from Tokyo.
Ich bin aus Tokio geflogen.
I flew from Tokyo.
Der Flug, den ich genommen habe, kam aus Tokio.
The flight I took came from Tokyo.
Cultural Tip
In German, ‘aus’ is the standard preposition for indicating the origin of a person, object, or movement from a place (e.g., aus Berlin, aus dem Haus). Using ‘von’ would sound odd with city names. Also, Germans often talk about the flight itself (der Flug) rather than the aircraft when describing travel logistics.