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Second sentence of Mehr als 186.000 Soldaten: Bundeswehr erreicht Personalziel für dieses Jahr, tagesschau.de, 17 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
The direct recruitment of young women by the Bundeswehr continues to meet with little response.
Word for word: To little resonance pushes further the direct addressing of young women through the Bundeswehr.
Used in journalistic register to report that the Bundeswehr's direct recruiting appeals aimed at young women are still drawing little interest or positive reaction.
A prepositional phrase ('Auf geringe Resonanz') occupies the first position, so the finite verb 'stößt' comes second and the true subject 'die direkte Ansprache' follows it. 'Stoßen auf' governs the accusative; 'junger Frauen' is a genitive attribute of 'Ansprache', and 'durch die Bundeswehr' names the agent.
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Auf geringe Resonanz stößt weiterhin die direkte Ansprache
The fronted prepositional phrase fills position one, so the finite verb must stand second and the subject follows it.
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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Auf geringe Resonanz stößt
'stoßen auf' is a fixed verb-preposition combination taking the accusative.
Many verbs are tied to one preposition and one case, and the pairing rarely matches the English one. Warten auf takes the accusative, denken an takes the accusative, teilnehmen an takes the dative.
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Auf geringe Resonanz
The preposition 'auf' in 'auf Resonanz stoßen' governs the accusative.
The accusative marks the direct object: the thing the action is done to. Only the masculine changes visibly, from der to den and from ein to einen, which is why the masculine is where accusative errors show.
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junger Frauen
The genitive phrase expresses whose addressing is meant, an attribute of 'Ansprache'.
The genitive shows possession and follows a small set of prepositions. Masculine and neuter nouns add s or es. In speech it is often replaced by von plus the dative, but it is alive in writing and in fixed expressions.
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geringe, junger
Both adjectives stand without a preceding article and so carry strong endings showing case, number and gender.
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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die direkte Ansprache
After the definite article 'die' the adjective takes only the weak ending -e.
After a definite article the adjective ending is e in the five nominative and accusative singular slots and en everywhere else, because the article has already shown the case and gender.
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die direkte Ansprache, die Bundeswehr
Definite articles mark both the subject phrase and the agent phrase.
Der, die and das change their form according to the gender, number and case of the noun. The full set of sixteen forms is the backbone of the case system, because most other endings follow the same pattern.
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Words(9)
- auf
on, onto
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Location takes the dative, movement towards the accusative.
- gering
low, small, slight
adjectiveB1geringer, am geringsten
- die Resonanz
response, resonance
nounC1pl. Resonanzengen. Resonanzmixed declension
'Auf Resonanz stoßen' is a fixed journalistic phrase meaning 'to meet with a response'.
- stoßen
to push, to bump into, to meet with
verbB1stoßen, stieß, hat/ist gestoßenmit seinirregularstoßen auf + accusative
- weiterhin
continuing, still, furthermore
adverbB1temporal
- die
the
determinerA1definite
- die Frau
woman, Mrs
nounA1pl. Frauengen. Frauweak declension
- durch
through, by means of
prepositionA2governs accusative
With the passive, 'durch' names the actual agent, unlike 'von'.
- 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.