I was reading about Ordinalzahlen and the following sentence appeared:
Wenn wir über das Datum sprechen, etwas aufzählen oder über Reihenfolgen sprechen, nutzen wir Ordinalzahlen.
This is a relatively simple sentence to translate:
When we talk about the date, list something or talk about orders, we use Ordinal numbers.
However, the sentence structure confuses me.
I assume that the part
Wenn wir über das Datum sprechen, etwas aufzählen oder über Reihenfolgen sprechen
is a subordinate clause as it cannot make sense on its own (unless I'm otherwise wrong)
but why is the verb placed after this clause immediately:
nutzen wir Ordinalzahlen
and not
wir nutzen Ordinalzahlen
My interpretation was that the verb came second so the first element was the subordinate clause, followed by the verb and then the rest of the sentence, but I haven't found any information regarding this on the internet. I would like to be sure about it before I move on and advance my German further.
Why is nutzen placed before the pronoun "wir"?