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From Deutsch-belgische Grenzregion: Waldbrand-Lage stabil - doch es droht Wind, tagesschau.de, 17 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
However, strong wind and gusts from a south-westerly direction are forecast for Tuesday.
Word for word: However, be for Tuesday strong wind and gusts from south-westerly direction forecast.
A weather report or news item stating that strong wind and gusts from the southwest have been forecast for Tuesday; the subjunctive signals that this is a report of someone else's forecast.
The verb 'sein' appears in the subjunctive one (seien), marking reported/indirect speech typical of news reporting. The sentence is a passive-style construction with the past participle 'vorhergesagt' at the end, with 'für Dienstag' as a time expression and 'aus südwestlicher Richtung' as an adverbial of direction. The adjective 'südwestlicher' takes a strong ending because it follows a preposition without a determiner.
Rules at work(5)
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seien
The subjunctive one form 'seien' marks the content as reported speech, standard in news and weather reports.
Reported speech in journalism and formal writing. It is built from the infinitive stem, and where its form would be identical to the ordinary present, Konjunktiv II is used instead to keep the reporting visible.
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seien ... vorhergesagt
The forecast is expressed passively: what is predicted is the subject, with the participle 'vorhergesagt' at the end.
Werden plus a past participle. The agent, when it is mentioned at all, follows von for a person and durch for a means. In the perfect passive the participle of werden appears as worden rather than geworden.
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Allerdings seien
The initial adverb occupies the first position, so the finite verb 'seien' comes second.
In a German main clause the finite verb is always the second element. The first element can be the subject, but it can just as easily be a time expression, an object or a whole subordinate clause; whatever it is, it counts as one element and the verb follows it. This is why putting something other than the subject first pushes the subject after the verb.
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starker Wind und Böen aus südwestlicher Richtung
Neither 'starker' nor 'südwestlicher' has a preceding article, so both take strong endings.
With no article in front of it the adjective has to carry the case marking itself, so it takes the endings the definite article would have had, with the exception of the masculine and neuter genitive singular.
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für Dienstag ... aus südwestlicher Richtung
Time ('für Dienstag') precedes place/direction ('aus südwestlicher Richtung') before the final participle.
When several adverbial phrases stand in the middle field, the usual order is time, then manner, then place. This is the opposite of the common English order and it is why Ich fahre morgen mit dem Zug nach Berlin sounds right.
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Words(12)
- allerdings
however, though, admittedly
adverbB1modal
Softens or contrasts a previous statement; usually in midfield.
- sein
to be
verbA1sein, war, ist gewesenmit seinirregular
Copula here linking subject to predicate noun.
- für
for
prepositionA1governs accusative
Here für Dienstag names the day the forecast applies to, not a beneficiary.
- der Dienstag
Tuesday
nounA1pl. Dienstagegen. Dienstag(e)sstrong declension
- stark
strong, powerful
adjectiveA1stärker, am stärksten
- der Wind
wind
nounA2pl. Windegen. Windsstrong declension
- und
and
conjunctionA1coordinating
- die Bö
gust, squall
nounC1pl. Böengen. Bömixed declension
Mostly used in weather forecasts; the plural 'Böen' is far more common than the singular.
- aus
out of, from, made of
prepositionA1governs dative
- südwestlich
south-westerly, southwestern
adjectiveB1
- die Richtung
direction, towards
nounB1pl. Richtungengen. Richtungweak declension
Often used without an article before place names to mean 'towards'.
- voraussagen
to predict, to forecast
verbB2voraussagen, sagte voraus, hat vorausgesagtmit habenseparableweak