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From 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
By the end of the year, the ministry expects a further increase.
Word for word: Until year's end reckons the ministry with a further increase.
Used in news or official contexts to say that the ministry anticipates that some figure or amount will grow further by the end of the year.
A statement in the present tense beginning with the temporal prepositional phrase 'Bis Jahresende', which occupies the first position and forces inversion, so the finite verb 'rechnet' comes second and the subject 'das Ministerium' follows it. 'Rechnen mit' is a fixed verb-preposition combination governing the dative, hence 'einem weiteren Zuwachs' in the dative singular.
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Bis Jahresende rechnet das Ministerium
The fronted time phrase occupies first position, so the finite verb 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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rechnet ... mit einem weiteren Zuwachs
'rechnen mit' is a fixed combination whose object stands in the dative.
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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mit einem weiteren Zuwachs
The preposition 'mit' governs the dative, so determiner, adjective and noun all show dative singular forms.
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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rechnet
German uses the present tense for expectations about the future; no auxiliary is needed.
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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einem weiteren Zuwachs
After the indefinite article 'einem' the adjective takes the mixed declension ending -en in the dative singular.
After ein, kein and a possessive, the adjective takes strong endings exactly where the article shows nothing, which is the masculine nominative and the neuter nominative and accusative, and weak endings everywhere else.
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Words(9)
- bis
until, to, as far as
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Alone it takes the accusative ('bis Montag'); with 'zu' it means 'up to and including' and follows the dative.
- das Jahresende
end of the year
nounB1pl. Jahresendengen. Jahresendesstrong declension
- rechnen
to calculate, to expect, to reckon
verbA2rechnen, rechnete, hat gerechnetmit habenweakmit + dative
'rechnen mit' means to expect/anticipate something, not just to do arithmetic.
- das
the
determinerA1definite
- das Ministerium
ministry, government department
nounB1pl. Ministeriengen. Ministeriumsmixed declension
- mit
with, by (means of transport)
prepositionA1governs dative
Always dative, including travel: 'mit dem Bus, mit dem Rad'.
- ein
a, an, one
determinerA1indefinite
The form einer here is dative feminine singular, not the pronoun meaning 'one'.
- weit
far, wide, further (in 'ein weiterer')
adjectiveA2weiter, am weitesten
'ein weiterer Zuwachs' means 'a further increase', not literally 'a wider growth'.
- der Zuwachs
increase, growth, gain
nounB2pl. Zuwächsegen. Zuwachsesstrong declension