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From Gesundheitsminister zu Sparplänen: Linnemann will Rentenkürzung für Pflegende stoppen, tagesschau.de, 23 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
The new health minister has announced that he wants to correct this point in the austerity plans.
Word for word: The new health minister has announced, this point with the savings plans to correct to want.
Used in news or political reporting: the minister has publicly declared his intention to change one specific point of the planned spending cuts.
A main clause in the perfect tense (hat angekündigt) with a bracketed zu-infinitive containing a modal verb: 'korrigieren zu wollen'. The finite auxiliary 'hat' stands in second position and the past participle 'angekündigt' at the end of the main clause; the comma introduces an extended infinitive clause whose verbs appear in final position.
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hat
The finite auxiliary occupies the second position of the main clause.
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 angekündigt
The announcement is reported in the perfect with the auxiliary haben.
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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korrigieren zu wollen
The announced intention is expressed as a zu-infinitive clause after the comma.
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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angekündigt
Separable prefix an- takes ge- before the stem: ange-kündig-t.
A weak verb forms its participle as ge plus stem plus t, a strong verb as ge plus a often changed stem plus en. Verbs with an inseparable prefix and verbs ending in ieren take no ge at all.
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wollen
The modal wollen appears as an infinitive inside the zu-infinitive group.
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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diesen Punkt
The direct object of korrigieren stands in the 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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bei den Sparplänen
bei always governs the dative, hence den Sparplänen.
Aus, außer, bei, mit, nach, seit, von and zu always take the dative. Several of them contract with the article: von dem becomes vom, zu der becomes zur.
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Der neue
After the definite article the adjective takes the mixed ending -e.
After ein, kein and a possessive, the adjective takes strong endings exactly where the article shows nothing, which is the masculine nominative and the neuter nominative and accusative, and weak endings everywhere else.
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Gesundheitsminister
Health + minister form one 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(11)
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- neu
new
adjectiveA1
- der Gesundheitsminister
health minister
nounB1pl. Gesundheitsministergen. Gesundheitsministersweak declension
- haben
to have
verbA1haben, hatte, hat gehabtmit habenirregular
As an auxiliary it forms the perfect tenses of most verbs.
- ankündigen
to announce
verbB1ankündigen, kündigte an, hat angekündigtmit habenseparableweak
Separable prefix an-; participle is angekündigt.
- dieser
this, that
determinerA2demonstrative
Takes the same endings as the definite article; the dative neuter form is "diesem".
- der Punkt
point, dot, item on a list
nounA2pl. Punktegen. Punktesstrong declension
- bei
at, near, with
prepositionA2governs dative
'bei 42 Prozent' = 'at 42 percent', standard in poll reporting.
- der Sparplan
savings plan, austerity plan
nounB2pl. Sparplänegen. Sparplansstrong declension
- korrigieren
to correct, to fix
verbB1korrigieren, korrigierte, hat korrigiertmit habenweak
- wollen
to want, to want to
verbA1wollen, wollte, hat gewolltmit habenmodal
Wollen has no umlaut in its conjugation: ich will, wir wollen.