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From Kurs der Bundesregierung: "Klimapolitik von der Kür zur Pflicht machen", tagesschau.de, 20 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
In it, they also call for a constitutional amendment for greater climate adaptation.
Word for word: There-in demand they also a constitution-change for more climate-adaptation.
Used in journalistic register: in some document or statement (the referent of 'darin'), people are also demanding a change to the constitution to bring about better adaptation to climate change.
A main clause with the prepositional phrase 'Darin' in first position, so the finite verb 'fordern' occupies second place and the subject 'sie' follows. 'eine Verfassungsänderung' is the accusative object; 'für mehr Klimaanpassung' is a prepositional phrase with für + accusative, where 'mehr' modifies the feminine noun without an article.
Rules at work(6)
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Darin fordern sie
The fronted adverbial 'Darin' takes position one, pushing the finite verb into second position while 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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sie fordern
The plural subject 'sie' requires the -en ending on 'fordern'.
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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eine Verfassungsänderung
'Verfassungsänderung' is the direct object of 'fordern', so the determiner shows feminine accusative 'eine'.
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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für mehr Klimaanpassung
'für' always governs the accusative; the noun phrase stands in the accusative.
Durch, für, gegen, ohne and um always take the accusative, whatever they mean and whatever follows them.
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Verfassungsänderung
The noun is formed by compounding Verfassung + Änderung, taking its gender from the final element.
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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fordern
The simple present is used, as usual in German news prose, where English might use progressive or perfect.
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(9)
- darin
in it, therein
adverbB1local
da-compound referring back to something previously mentioned; English uses 'in this' or 'about it'.
- fordern
to demand, to call for
verbB1fordern, forderte, hat gefordertmit habenweak
Do not confuse with fördern (to promote).
- sie
she, they, it (referring to feminine nouns)
pronounA1personal
Here accusative singular feminine, referring back to 'die Publikumsveranstaltung'.
- auch
also, too
adverbA1modal
Focus particle; here it means the ministers are included among others already named.
- ein
a, an, one
determinerA1indefinite
The form einer here is dative feminine singular, not the pronoun meaning 'one'.
- die Verfassungsänderung
constitutional amendment
nounC1pl. Verfassungsänderungengen. Verfassungsänderungmixed declension
- für
for
prepositionA1governs accusative
Here für Dienstag names the day the forecast applies to, not a beneficiary.
- mehr
more
adverbA1degree
Comparative of viel; before nouns it works like a quantifier with no article.
- die Klimaanpassung
climate adaptation, adapting to climate change
nounC1pl. Klimaanpassungengen. Klimaanpassungmixed declension