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Third 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 autumn will be busy with work, says the new head of the Chancellery Warken on the tagesthemen news programme.
Word for word: The autumn become work-rich, says the new chancellery-office-chief Warken in the tagesschau-themes.
A news report attributing a prediction to the new head of the Federal Chancellery, Warken, made on the ARD programme tagesthemen: she said autumn would bring a lot of work. The Konjunktiv I signals reported speech without quoting her verbatim.
This is a statement reporting someone's words. The verb 'werde' is third-person singular present subjunctive one (Konjunktiv I) of 'werden', used in German journalism for indirect speech to mark that the claim comes from the quoted person, not the reporter. The sentence is verb-second: the subject 'Der Herbst' occupies the first position, the finite verb 'werde' the second, and the rest follows. The noun phrase 'die neue Kanzleramtschefin Warken' is the subject of 'sagt', an apposition-style naming construction common in news writing; 'in den tagesthemen' is a dative plural prepositional phrase of place/media.
Rules at work(5)
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werde
'Werde' is Konjunktiv I of werden, the standard marker of indirect speech in written German journalism.
Reported speech in journalism and formal writing. It is built from the infinitive stem, and where its form would be identical to the ordinary present, Konjunktiv II is used instead to keep the reporting visible.
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Der Herbst werde
The declarative main clause places the finite verb 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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Der Herbst
The subject of 'werde' 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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in den tagesthemen
'In' takes dative here because it expresses location (on the programme), not movement.
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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Kanzleramtschefin
A compound noun formed from Kanzleramt + Chef(in) with the linking element -s-.
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(12)
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- der Herbst
autumn, fall
nounA2pl. Herbstegen. Herbstesstrong declension
- werden
become, will (future auxiliary)
verbA2werden, wurde, ist gewordenmit habenirregular
Also the passive auxiliary; do not confuse with bekommen (= receive).
- arbeitsreich
busy with work, full of work
adjectiveB2arbeitsreicher, am arbeitsreichsten
- sagen
to say, to tell
verbA1sagen, sagte, hat gesagtmit habenweak
- die
the
determinerA1definite
- neu
new
adjectiveA1
- die Kanzleramtschefin
head of the Federal Chancellery
nounC1pl. Kanzleramtschefinnengen. Kanzleramtschefinmixed declension
Feminine agent form; the male counterpart is Kanzleramtschef.
- Warken
Warken (surname)
nounC2
- in
in, into
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Dative for location, accusative for direction.
- den
the
determinerA1definite
- die Tagesthemen
German TV news programme
nounC2pl. Tagesthemeninvariable declension
Programme name, always plural in form, so it takes dative plural 'den'.