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From Justizministerin für Grundgesetzänderung: Hubig will mehr Schutz für queere Menschen, tagesschau.de, 22 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
She considers it possible that this can succeed.
Word for word: That this succeed can, holds she for possible.
The speaker reports that she thinks it is possible that something will succeed. It is a typical way of attributing an evaluation to someone using the frame 'etwas für Adjektiv halten'.
A subordinate clause introduced by 'dass' with the finite modal 'kann' in final position functions as the direct object of 'hält ... für möglich'. The main clause is verb-second: the object clause fills the prefield, so the finite verb 'hält' comes second and the subject 'sie' follows it. The construction 'etwas für möglich halten' takes the accusative and expresses an assessment.
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Dass
'Dass' introduces the dependent clause functioning as the object of 'hält'.
Weil, dass, wenn, als, ob, obwohl, damit, nachdem, bevor and the rest introduce a subordinate clause and send its finite verb to the very end.
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Dass das gelingen kann
The finite modal 'kann' stands at the end of the dass-clause, after the infinitive 'gelingen'.
In a subordinate clause the finite verb stands last. Where the clause also holds a participle or an infinitive, the finite verb goes after them, so the order at the end is participle then auxiliary.
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hält sie
Because the dass-clause fills the first position of the main clause, the finite verb 'hält' must come second and the subject 'sie' 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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gelingen kann
The modal 'kann' is conjugated and pushes the infinitive 'gelingen' 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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für möglich
'halten' combines with 'für' plus an adjective to express a judgement: etwas für möglich halten.
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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Words(8)
- dass
that
conjunctionA2subordinating
Always sends the finite verb to the end of the clause.
- das
that, what
pronounA1demonstrative
Before a comma, das is usually a pronoun introducing a relative clause, not the article.
- gelingen
to succeed
verbB2gelingen, gelang, ist gelungenmit seinstronggoverns dative
impersonal verb: the thing that succeeds is the subject ('das gelingt')
- können
can, be able to, may, might (as könnte)
verbA1können, konnte, hat gekonntmit habenmodal
könnte is the Konjunktiv II and softens a claim into a possibility.
- halten
to hold, to consider, to stop
verbA2halten, hielt, hat gehaltenmit habenstrongfür + accusative (etwas für möglich halten = to consider something possible)
- sie
she, they, it (referring to feminine nouns)
pronounA1personal
Here accusative singular feminine, referring back to 'die Publikumsveranstaltung'.
- für
for
prepositionA1governs accusative
Here für Dienstag names the day the forecast applies to, not a beneficiary.
- möglich
possible
adjectiveA2möglicher, am möglichsten