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Third sentence of Vor Wahl in Sachsen-Anhalt: Klingbeil unterwegs auf schwierigem Terrain, tagesschau.de, 21 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
On the campaign trail on the ground, he senses the discontent.
Word for word: At-the election-campaign on site feels he the discontent.
Used to describe how, while campaigning locally among voters, a politician perceives public dissatisfaction.
A statement in the present tense with verb-second word order. The fronted prepositional phrase 'Beim Wahlkampf vor Ort' occupies the first position, so the finite verb 'spürt' comes second and the subject 'er' third. 'die Unzufriedenheit' is a feminine noun in the accusative as direct object.
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Beim Wahlkampf vor Ort spürt er
The fronted prepositional phrase fills position one, so the finite verb spürt must come 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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Beim Wahlkampf vor Ort
bei and the static sense of vor both require dative: dem Wahlkampf, dem Ort (contracted or implicit).
The dative marks the indirect object, usually the person something is given, said or shown to. A number of common verbs take a dative object where English would use a direct one, and several prepositions always take it.
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die Unzufriedenheit
The noun phrase is the direct object of spüren and therefore takes 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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spürt er
Third-person singular subject er takes the -t ending of spüren.
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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Wahlkampf
A compound of Wahl + Kampf 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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spürt
The present indicative describes a current experience.
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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Words(8)
- beim
at the, with regard to
prepositionA1governs dative
Contraction of 'bei dem'; used before nominalised verbs such as 'beim Fahrradfahren'.
- der Wahlkampf
election campaign
nounB2pl. Wahlkämpfegen. Wahlkampfesstrong declension
- vor
before, in front of, ago
prepositionA1governs dative
With clock time ('vor 7 Uhr') it means 'before' and takes no visible case change.
- der Ort
place, spot, location
nounA2pl. Ortegen. Ortesstrong declension
- spüren
to feel, to sense
verbB1spüren, spürte, hat gespürtmit habenweak
- er
he
pronounA1personal
- die
the
determinerA1definite
- die Unzufriedenheit
dissatisfaction, discontent
nounB2pl. Unzufriedenheitengen. Unzufriedenheitadjectival declension