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From Kabinettsklausur in Neuhardenberg: Im Trainingslager mit dem Kanzler, tagesschau.de, 26 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
The signal: we want to be fit for whatever is coming.
Word for word: The signal: we want fit to be for that, what there comes.
Used like a headline or slogan: it announces a conclusion or message — namely that one should prepare oneself for whatever lies ahead.
A nominal headline ('Das Signal') is followed by a full main clause with the finite modal verb 'wollen' in second position. 'fit sein' is an infinitive construction governed by the modal. The preposition 'für' takes the accusative; its object is the demonstrative pronoun 'das', which is expanded by the free relative clause 'was da kommt', in which 'was' is both connector and subject of 'kommt'.
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Wir wollen fit sein
In the main clause after the subject wir, the finite verb wollen stands in second position.
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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Wir wollen fit sein
The modal wollen is conjugated and pushes the infinitive sein to the end of the clause.
The six modals können, müssen, dürfen, sollen, wollen and mögen say something about the main verb rather than naming an action. The modal is the finite verb in second position and the main verb goes to the end of the clause as an infinitive.
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das, was da kommt
The free relative clause with was modifies the demonstrative das; the verb comes at the end of the clause.
A relative pronoun takes its gender and number from the noun it refers back to, and its case from the job it does inside the relative clause. The clause is verb-final and always separated by a comma.
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wollen ... was da kommt
Both finite verbs are present tense, here also expressing the near future.
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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für das
Für always governs the accusative, so its pronoun object das is accusative.
Durch, für, gegen, ohne and um always take the accusative, whatever they mean and whatever follows them.
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Words(11)
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- das Signal
signal, sign
nounB1pl. Signalegen. Signalsstrong declension
- wir
we
pronounA1personal
- wollen
to want, to want to
verbA1wollen, wollte, hat gewolltmit habenmodal
Wollen has no umlaut in its conjugation: ich will, wir wollen.
- fit
fit, in shape
adjectiveA2
- sein
to be
verbA1sein, war, ist gewesenmit seinirregular
Copula here linking subject to predicate noun.
- für
for
prepositionA1governs accusative
Here für Dienstag names the day the forecast applies to, not a beneficiary.
- das
that, what
pronounA1demonstrative
Before a comma, das is usually a pronoun introducing a relative clause, not the article.
- was
what, which
pronounA1interrogative
Was is used as a relative pronoun after das, alles, etwas, nichts and superlatives.
- da
there, then, so, because (subordinating)
adverbA1local
As a sentence-opening adverb it often has causal force: 'that is why'.
- kommen
to come
verbA1kommen, kam, ist gekommenmit seinstrong
Figurative here: the decisions should 'come', i.e. appear soon.