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Opening sentence of 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
The attack on the Pride parade (CSD) in Berlin at the end of July hit the queer community hard.
Word for word: The attack on the CSD in Berlin end July has the queer community heavily hit.
Reports that a violent attack targeting Berlin's Pride event in late July deeply affected or harmed the queer community; typical of news reporting.
A declarative main sentence with verb-second word order. The subject is the long noun phrase 'Der Anschlag auf den CSD in Berlin Ende Juli', the finite auxiliary 'hat' stands in second position, and the past participle 'getroffen' closes the sentence, forming the perfect tense with 'haben'. 'auf den CSD' is an accusative prepositional phrase depending on 'Anschlag'; 'die queere Community' is the accusative direct object.
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Der Anschlag ... hat die queere Community schwer getroffen
The finite verb 'hat' occupies the second position of the main clause even though the subject phrase is long.
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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hat ... getroffen
Transitive 'treffen' forms the perfect with 'haben' plus the past participle in final position.
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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den CSD, die queere Community
The object of 'auf' after 'Anschlag' and the direct object of 'treffen' are both accusative.
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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Anschlag auf den CSD
'Anschlag' governs the fixed preposition 'auf' with the accusative.
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(14)
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- der Anschlag
attack, bombing
nounB2pl. Anschlägegen. Anschlagsstrong declension
Typically a violent, often politically motivated attack.
- auf
on, onto
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Location takes the dative, movement towards the accusative.
- der CSD
Pride parade, Christopher Street Day
nounC1pl. CSDsgen. CSDsinvariable declension
German name for LGBTQ+ Pride events; abbreviation pronounced letter by letter.
- in
in, into
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Dative for location, accusative for direction.
- das Berlin
Berlin
nounA1pl. —gen. Berlinsinvariable declension
- die Ende
end
nounA2pl. Endengen. des Endesmixed declension
- der Juli
July
nounA1pl. Julisgen. Julisinvariable declension
Month names are masculine and not usually preceded by an article in dates.
- haben
to have
verbA1haben, hatte, hat gehabtmit habenirregular
As an auxiliary it forms the perfect tenses of most verbs.
- die
the
determinerA1definite
- queer
queer
adjectiveB2queerer, am queersten
English loanword, now standard in German discussions of gender and sexuality.
- die Community
community
nounB1pl. Communitysgen. Communitymixed declension
Anglicism widely used in German, especially for social groups.
- schwer
heavily, badly, hard
adverbA2modal
- treffen
to hit, to meet
verbA2treffen, traf, getroffenmit habenstrong
Here 'to hit/strike' a place or people, not 'to meet'.