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From Vorschlag der AWO : Mit einem "Erwerbsbooster" gegen die Armut, tagesschau.de, 19 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
The Ifo Institute has run the numbers on proposals by the Workers' Welfare Association, says study director Maximilian Brömel of the Ifo Center for Public Finance. Like the Social State Commission, the AWO proposes bundling basic income support, housing benefit and the child supplement into a single new benefit for people able to work. Added to this comes an 'employment booster' – a financial incentive to take up employment subject to social insurance contributions.
Word for word: For-that has the Ifo-Institute proposals of-the Workers'-Welfare calculated-through, says study-leader Maximilian Brömel from-the Ifo-Center for Financial-Science. How the Social-State-Commission strikes the AWO before, Basic-Security, Housing-Benefit and Child-Supplement to a new benefit for work-capable people to bundle. To-that comes an 'Employment-Booster' – a financial incentive, an socially-insured employment to take-up.
A news-style report about welfare reform proposals: the Ifo Institute has costed the AWO's suggestion to merge several benefits into one and add a financial incentive for taking up insured employment.
Three declarative sentences in the present and perfect tense. The first embeds a reported statement with a verb-second main clause followed by 'sagt...' reporting clause. The second opens with a comparative 'Wie...'-phrase occupying the preverbal slot, forcing inversion, then uses a separable verb 'schlägt ... vor' with a zu-infinitive complement. The third uses a da-compound 'Dazu' as fronted adverb and an appositional noun phrase containing another zu-infinitive.
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Dafür hat das Ifo-Institut
The finite auxiliary occupies the second position after the fronted adverb Dafür.
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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schlägt die AWO vor
The prefix vor separates from schlägt and moves to the end of the clause.
Some verbs carry a prefix that detaches in a main clause and moves to the very end: aufstehen becomes Ich stehe um sieben auf. The prefix is stressed, which is what tells a separable prefix from an inseparable one. In a subordinate clause and in the infinitive the verb stays whole.
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Wie die Sozialstaatskommission schlägt die AWO vor
The fronted wie-phrase fills the first position, so the finite verb follows immediately in second position.
A subordinate clause standing before the main clause fills the first position on its own, so the main clause verb comes immediately after the comma and the subject follows it. Weil ich müde war, bin ich früh ins Bett gegangen.
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zu bündeln
The dependent infinitive takes zu directly before the verb.
Many verbs, adjectives and nouns take an infinitive introduced by zu, which stands at the end of its clause. With a separable verb the zu goes between the prefix and the stem, giving aufzustehen.
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hat ... durchgerechnet
Transitive durchrechnen forms its perfect with haben.
The perfect is the ordinary spoken past. It is built from the present of haben in second position and the past participle at the end of the clause. Most verbs take haben, including every verb with a direct object and every reflexive verb.
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durchgerechnet
ge- is placed between the separable prefix durch- and the stem.
A weak verb forms its participle as ge plus stem plus t, a strong verb as ge plus a often changed stem plus en. Verbs with an inseparable prefix and verbs ending in ieren take no ge at all.
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zu einer neuen Leistung
zu takes the dative here, expressing transformation into something.
An, auf, hinter, in, neben, über, unter, vor and zwischen take the accusative when the phrase answers where to, and the dative when it answers where. The distinction is movement across a boundary against position, not motion against stillness.
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für erwerbsfähige Menschen
für always governs the accusative.
Durch, für, gegen, ohne and um always take the accusative, whatever they mean and whatever follows them.
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Dafür
da(r)- plus preposition refers to a fact stated elsewhere in the discourse.
Where a preposition would be followed by a pronoun standing for a thing rather than a person, German fuses the two: damit, darauf, davon. An r appears between them when the preposition begins with a vowel.
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einer neuen Leistung
After the indefinite determiner einer the adjective takes the mixed ending -en.
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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für erwerbsfähige Menschen
With no article present the adjective carries the strong ending showing case and number.
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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Menschen
Mensch belongs to the weak nouns adding -en outside the nominative singular.
A group of masculine nouns takes an n or en in every case but the nominative singular: der Student but den Studenten, dem Studenten, des Studenten. Most denote people and many end in e, ent, ist or ant.
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Grundsicherung, Wohngeld und Kinderzuschlag
German routinely builds compounds; the final element determines gender.
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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kommt ein Erwerbsbooster
Third-person singular subject agrees with the -t ending of kommt.
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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Words(41)
- dafür
for that, for it
adverbB1causal
Da-compound standing in for 'for this purpose'; English uses plain 'for it/that'.
- haben
to have
verbA1haben, hatte, hat gehabtmit habenirregular
As an auxiliary it forms the perfect tenses of most verbs.
- das
the
determinerA1definite
- das Ifo-Institut
Ifo Institute (economic research institute)
nounpl. Institutegen. Ifo-Institutsstrong declension
- der Vorschlag
proposal, suggestion
nounB1pl. Vorschlägegen. Vorschlagsstrong declension
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- die Arbeiterwohlfahrt
Workers' Welfare Association (German welfare organisation, AWO)
nounC1pl. Arbeiterwohlfahrtengen. Arbeiterwohlfahrt
Proper name of a major German charity, often abbreviated AWO.
- durchrechnen
to calculate through, to cost out
verbdurchrechnen, rechnete durch, durchgerechnetmit habenseparablemixed
- sagen
to say, to tell
verbA1sagen, sagte, hat gesagtmit habenweak
- der Studienleiter
study director, head of study
nounpl. Studienleitergen. Studienleitersweak declension
- der Maximilian
Maximilian (male given name)
nounpl. Maximiliansgen. Maximiliansstrong declension
- der Brömel
Brömel (surname)
nounpl. Brömelsgen. Brömelsstrong declension
- vom
from the, of the
prepositionA2governs dative
- das Ifo-Zentrum
Ifo Center
nounpl. Zentrengen. Ifo-Zentrumsstrong declension
- für
for
prepositionA1governs accusative
Here für Dienstag names the day the forecast applies to, not a beneficiary.
- die Finanzwissenschaft
public finance, financial science
nounpl. Finanzwissenschaftengen. Finanzwissenschaftstrong declension
- wie
like, as, how
conjunctionA1subordinating
Here introducing an example, equivalent to 'such as'.
- die
the
determinerA1definite
- die Sozialstaatskommission
social state commission (government commission on the welfare state)
nounC2pl. Sozialstaatskommissionengen. Sozialstaatskommissionstrong declension
- vorschlagen
to propose, to suggest
verbB1vorschlagen, schlug vor, vorgeschlagenmit habenseparablestronggoverns dative
Separable verb: 'ich schlage ... vor', participle 'vorgeschlagen'.
- die AWO
AWO (abbreviation of Arbeiterwohlfahrt)
nounC1pl. AWOsgen. der AWOinvariable declension
- die Grundsicherung
basic income support, basic security
nounC1pl. Grundsicherungengen. Grundsicherungmixed declension
- das Wohngeld
housing benefit
nounB2pl. Wohngeldergen. Wohngeldesstrong declension
- und
and
conjunctionA1coordinating
- der Kinderzuschlag
child supplement (welfare payment)
nounC1pl. Kinderzuschlägegen. Kinderzuschlagsstrong declension
- zu
to, at, too
prepositionA1governs dative
With verbs of movement it takes dative even though motion is involved.
- ein
a, an, one
determinerA1indefinite
The form einer here is dative feminine singular, not the pronoun meaning 'one'.
- neu
new
adjectiveA1
- die Leistung
achievement, performance, service
nounB1pl. Leistungengen. Leistungmixed declension
- erwerbsfähig
capable of work, fit for work
adjectiveC1erwerbsfähiger, am erwerbsfähigsten
- der Mensch
human being, person
nounA1pl. Menschengen. Menschenweak declension
Weak n-declension: the genitive singular is Menschen and every plural form is Menschen.
- zu
marker before infinitives
particleA1
Only certain verbs and expressions allow a zu-infinitive; it also exists as a preposition 'to'.
- bündeln
to bundle, to pool
verbB2bündeln, bündelte, gebündeltmit habenweakgoverns accusative
- dazu
to that, in addition
adverbB1conjunctional
Pronominal adverb combining da- with a preposition; here it stands for 'zu etwas'.
- kommen
to come
verbA1kommen, kam, ist gekommenmit seinstrong
Figurative here: the decisions should 'come', i.e. appear soon.
- der Erwerbsbooster
employment booster (financial incentive to work)
nounC2pl. Erwerbsboostergen. Erwerbsboostersstrong declension
- finanziell
financial
adjectiveB1finanzieller, am finanziellsten
- der Anreiz
incentive
nounB2pl. Anreizegen. Anreizesstrong declension
- sozialversicherungspflichtig
subject to social insurance contributions
adjectiveC1
- die Beschäftigung
occupation, employment, engagement (with something)
nounB1pl. Beschäftigungengen. Beschäftigungstrong declension
Here it means 'dealing with / engaging with', not employment.
- aufnehmen
to take up, to record, to admit
verbB2aufnehmen, nahm auf, hat aufgenommenmit habenirregular
Here 'to stock/carry products'; also means 'to record' or 'to admit'.