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From Entlastung der Kommunen: Städtetag fordert Vollversicherung für Pflege, tagesschau.de, 21 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
The German Association of Cities is coming out in favour of converting long-term care insurance into a fully comprehensive insurance.
Word for word: The German Cities' Day speaks itself for the conversion of the care insurance to a full insurance out.
Used in news or political reporting: the umbrella organisation representing German cities publicly advocates restructuring long-term care insurance so that it covers all costs in full (a fully comprehensive model) rather than only partial benefits.
A main clause in the present tense with verb-second word order: the subject 'Der Deutsche Städtetag' occupies the first position and the finite separable verb 'spricht ... aus' frames the rest of the clause, with the prefix 'aus' at the end. 'sich' is the accusative reflexive pronoun of the fixed reflexive expression 'sich aussprechen für'. The preposition 'für' governs the accusative ('den Umbau'), while 'der Pflegeversicherung' and 'einer Vollversicherung' are genitive objects of 'Umbau' and complement of 'zu' respectively.
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Der Deutsche Städtetag spricht sich ... aus
In this declarative main clause the finite verb 'spricht' stands in second position after the subject phrase.
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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spricht ... aus
'aussprechen' is separable, so the prefix 'aus' moves to the end of the clause.
Some verbs carry a prefix that detaches in a main clause and moves to the very end: aufstehen becomes Ich stehe um sieben auf. The prefix is stressed, which is what tells a separable prefix from an inseparable one. In a subordinate clause and in the infinitive the verb stays whole.
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spricht sich
'sich aussprechen für' is a fixed reflexive expression with the reflexive pronoun 'sich' in the accusative.
A reflexive verb takes a pronoun pointing back at the subject. The pronoun is usually accusative, but it turns dative as soon as the verb has another direct object, which is why it is ich wasche mich but ich wasche mir die Hände.
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für den Umbau
'für' always governs the accusative, hence 'den Umbau'.
Durch, für, gegen, ohne and um always take the accusative, whatever they mean and whatever follows them.
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der Pflegeversicherung
'Umbau' takes a genitive object marking what is being converted.
The genitive shows possession and follows a small set of prepositions. Masculine and neuter nouns add s or es. In speech it is often replaced by von plus the dative, but it is alive in writing and in fixed expressions.
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zu einer Vollversicherung
'zu' governs the dative, hence 'einer Vollversicherung'.
The dative marks the indirect object, usually the person something is given, said or shown to. A number of common verbs take a dative object where English would use a direct one, and several prepositions always take it.
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spricht
The simple present reports a current political position, as German commonly does.
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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Der Deutsche Städtetag spricht
The third-person singular subject requires the '-t' ending on 'spricht'.
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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Words(11)
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- deutsch
German
adjectiveA1deutscher, am deutschesten
- der Städtetag
Association of Cities, cities' assembly
nounC1pl. Städtetagegen. Städtetagesstrong declension
Proper name of the German Deutscher Städtetag, the association of independent cities; not the everyday meaning of Tag.
- aussprechen
to speak out, to pronounce, to express
verbB2spricht aus, sprach aus, hat ausgesprochenmit habenseparableirregularsich aussprechen für + accusative
In 'sich aussprechen gegen/für' it means to declare oneself against/for something.
- sich
himself/herself/themselves, itself
pronounA2reflexive
Always refers back to the subject; here it is fixed to the verb 'sich mehren'.
- für
for
prepositionA1governs accusative
Here für Dienstag names the day the forecast applies to, not a beneficiary.
- der Umbau
conversion, restructuring, renovation
nounB2pl. Umbautengen. Umbausstrong declension
- die Pflegeversicherung
long-term care insurance
nounC1pl. Pflegeversicherungengen. Pflegeversicherungmixed declension
- zu
to, at, too
prepositionA1governs dative
With verbs of movement it takes dative even though motion is involved.
- ein
a, an, one
determinerA1indefinite
The form einer here is dative feminine singular, not the pronoun meaning 'one'.
- die Vollversicherung
fully comprehensive insurance, full-coverage insurance
nounC1pl. Vollversicherungengen. Vollversicherungmixed declension