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From Kabinettsklausur in Neuhardenberg: Im Trainingslager mit dem Kanzler, tagesschau.de, 26 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
Some, like Health Minister Carsten Linnemann (CDU), go jogging, while others, like Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD), go for a ride on their racing bikes.
Word for word: The ones, like health minister Carsten Linnemann (CDU), go jog, the others, like finance minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD), drive a round with the racing bike.
Journalistic style: the writer takes a group introduced earlier (cabinet ministers) and splits it into two camps by fitness routine — one lot goes running, the other rides road bikes. The frame 'die einen …, die anderen …' signals exactly this some/others contrast.
Two parallel main clauses in verb-second order are joined by a comma alone. Each opens with a correlative subject — 'die einen' (some) or 'die anderen' (the others) — followed by a 'wie'-phrase containing a titled minister, his name and his party stacked in apposition. The finite verbs 'gehen' and 'fahren' are third-person plural agreeing with those subjects; 'gehen' takes the bare infinitive 'joggen' with no zu, while 'fahren' takes the accusative idiom 'eine Runde' plus the dative phrase 'mit dem Rennrad'. 'Anderen' is the adjective 'ander-' with the weak ending, used as a noun.
Rules at work(11)
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gehen, fahren
Both clauses are statements, so the finite verb stands in second position, directly after the fronted subject group ('Die einen …', 'die anderen …').
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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die anderen
'Anderen' is the declined adjective 'ander-' used as a noun after the definite article, with the weak plural ending -en.
An adjective can be capitalised and used as a noun, and it goes on taking adjective endings: der Alte, ein Alter, etwas Neues.
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Die einen … die anderen
The whole sentence is built on this correlative frame, contrasting two halves of the group of ministers.
A fixed pair of nominalized phrases that splits a known group into two contrasting subsets: 'die einen' = some, 'die anderen' = the others.
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gehen joggen
'Joggen' follows the conjugated motion verb 'gehen' as a bare infinitive without zu.
Motion verbs such as gehen, fahren, kommen and führen combine directly with a second, unbent infinitive, with no zu and no comma: 'ich gehe schwimmen'.
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die einen … gehen, die anderen … fahren
The plural subjects 'die einen' and 'die anderen' trigger the third-person plural present forms 'gehen' and 'fahren'.
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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gehen, fahren
The plain present describes what these politicians habitually do; German uses it where English might prefer the progressive.
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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mit dem Rennrad
'Mit' is bound to the dative, so the neuter 'Rennrad' appears as 'dem Rennrad'.
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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eine Runde
'Eine Runde' is the direct object of 'fahren' and therefore stands in the accusative feminine.
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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Gesundheitsminister, Finanzminister, Rennrad
Job titles and the bicycle are head-final compounds whose last member fixes gender, plural and declension class.
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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wie Gesundheitsminister Carsten Linnemann (CDU)
Each general subject ('die einen', 'die anderen') is followed, set off by commas, by a 'wie'-phrase naming a representative minister.
'Wie' plus a noun phrase, enclosed in commas, gives an instance of the preceding general word; title, name and party label are stacked in apposition without articles.
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The two complete statements '… gehen joggen' and '… fahren eine Runde …' are separated only by this comma.
German may coordinate two independent main clauses with a bare comma instead of 'und' or 'aber'.
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Words(20)
- die
the
determinerA1definite
- die einen
some (people), some
pronounB2indefinite
Always used in the pair 'die einen …, die anderen …' = 'some …, others …', referring to a group already known from the context.
- wie
like, as, how
conjunctionA1subordinating
Here introducing an example, equivalent to 'such as'.
- der Gesundheitsminister
health minister
nounB1pl. Gesundheitsministergen. Gesundheitsministersweak declension
- der Carsten
Carsten (male given name)
nounA1pl. Carstensgen. Carstensstrong declension
- Linnemann
Linnemann (surname)
noun
- die CDU
Christian Democratic Union
nounB1pl. CDU(s)gen. CDUinvariable declension
Feminine: die CDU.
- gehen
to go, to walk
verbA1gehen, ging, ist gegangenmit seinstrong
With a bare infinitive it means to go somewhere to do that thing: 'gehen joggen' = go jogging.
- joggen
to jog, to run for exercise
verbA2joggen, joggte, hat gejoggtmit habenweak
- ander-
other, another, different
adjectiveA1
'die einen …, die anderen …' splits a group into two: 'some …, the others …'.
- der Finanzminister
finance minister
nounB2pl. Finanzministergen. Finanzministersstrong declension
Compound of Finanzen + Minister; refers to the head of the finance ministry.
- der Lars
Lars (given name)
nounA2pl. Larsegen. Larsstrong declension
- der Klingbeil
Klingbeil (surname)
nounC1gen. Klingbeilsstrong declension
- die SPD
Social Democratic Party of Germany
nounB1pl. SPDsgen. SPDinvariable declension
Feminine abbreviation, used without an article when naming the party affiliation.
- fahren
to drive, to go, to travel (by vehicle), to ride (a bike)
verbA1fahren, fuhr, ist/hat gefahrenmit haben or seinstrong
Use 'sein' for motion towards a destination ('nach Berlin fahren') and 'haben' with a direct object ('eine Runde fahren'); both auxiliaries are heard with 'eine Runde'.
- ein
a, an, one
determinerA1indefinite
The form einer here is dative feminine singular, not the pronoun meaning 'one'.
- die Runde
round, lap, spin, short trip
nounA2pl. Rundengen. Rundeweak declension
'eine Runde fahren/drehen/gehen' = to go for a ride/spin/walk.
- mit
with, by (means of transport)
prepositionA1governs dative
Always dative, including travel: 'mit dem Bus, mit dem Rad'.
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- das Rennrad
racing bike, road bike
nounB2pl. Rennrädergen. Rennradsstrong declension