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Second sentence of Warken zu Reformvorhaben: "Nicht im Voraus schon Dinge tot reden", tagesschau.de, 25 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
The goal: to put Germany on a course of reform.
Word for word: The goal: Germany onto reform-course bring.
A slogan or headline naming the aim of steering Germany toward reforms; typical of political journalism or programme titles.
A nominal phrase followed by a colon and an infinitive phrase with zu; the infinitive zu bringen depends on Ziel as its content, a headline-style construction with no finite verb.
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Deutschland auf Reformkurs bringen
The infinitive phrase after the colon spells out what the goal consists of; in full it would be das Ziel, Deutschland ... zu bringen.
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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Das Ziel
The subject-like topic of the fragment stands in the nominative.
The nominative marks the subject of the clause: whoever or whatever is doing the verb. It is also the case used after the verbs sein, werden and bleiben, so both sides of Das ist mein Bruder stand in the nominative.
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auf Reformkurs
auf takes the accusative when expressing movement onto something, as in bringing a country onto a course.
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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Reformkurs
Reform + Kurs form one masculine compound noun.
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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Words(6)
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- das Ziel
goal, target
nounA2pl. Zielegen. Zielesstrong declension
- das Deutschland
Germany
nounA1pl. —gen. Deutschlandsinvariable declension
- auf
on, onto
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Location takes the dative, movement towards the accusative.
- der Reformkurs
course of reform, reform agenda
nounC1pl. Reformkursegen. Reformkursesstrong declension
- bringen
to bring, to get something into a state
verbA1bringen, brachte, hat gebrachtmit habenstrong