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From Feuer nicht unter Kontrolle: Waldbrände im Hohen Venn und im Schwarzwald, tagesschau.de, 17 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
The Bundeswehr is also supporting the firefighting efforts.
Word for word: Also the Bundeswehr supports the extinguishing-works.
Used in news reporting about disasters: besides other helpers, the German armed forces are also helping to fight fires.
A simple main-clause statement in the present tense. The subject 'die Bundeswehr' (feminine, nominative) stands first, so the finite verb 'unterstützt' takes second position (verb-second rule). 'Auch' modifies the subject, meaning 'the Bundeswehr too'. The direct object 'die Löscharbeiten' is a feminine plural noun phrase in the accusative.
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Auch die Bundeswehr unterstützt
The finite verb occupies the second position even though the front field is filled by 'Auch die Bundeswehr'.
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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die Bundeswehr unterstützt
Singular subject 'Bundeswehr' takes the third-person-singular ending -et.
The finite verb takes an ending that matches its subject in person and number. The endings for regular verbs in the present are e, st, t, en, t, en.
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unterstützt
The plain present describes the current ongoing support.
The present describes what is happening now, what happens habitually, and very often what is going to happen, since German uses the present with a time expression where English would use a future.
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die Bundeswehr
'Bundeswehr' is feminine, so it takes 'die' in the nominative singular.
Every German noun is masculine, feminine or neuter. The gender is a property of the word rather than of the thing it names, and it decides the form of every article, adjective and pronoun that refers to it, so it has to be learned with the noun.
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Bundeswehr
A compound of Bund + Wehr written as one word.
German builds long nouns by joining shorter ones. The last part carries the gender and the plural, and everything before it modifies what follows, so a compound is read from the right.
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Löscharbeiten
'Arbeit' forms its plural with -en, carried through into the compound.
German forms plurals in five main ways: adding e, er, en, s, or nothing at all, often with an umlaut on the stem vowel. The plural is not predictable from the singular and is learned with the noun.
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Words(5)
- auch
also, too
adverbA1modal
Focus particle; here it means the ministers are included among others already named.
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- die Bundeswehr
German armed forces, federal army
nounB1pl. Bundeswehrengen. Bundeswehrmixed declension
Refers specifically to the German military; usually used without an article in headlines but normally with one.
- unterstützen
to support, to back
verbB1unterstützen, unterstützte, hat unterstütztmit habenweakgoverns accusative
- die Löscharbeiten
firefighting operations, extinguishing work
nounC1pl. Löscharbeitengen. Löscharbeitstrong declension