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From Ernährungssicherheit: NABU-Studie zweifelt an Nutzen der EU-Agrarhilfen, tagesschau.de, 20 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
A new study, which is available to the ARD capital studio, calls this argument into question.
Word for word: A new study, which to-the ARD-capital-studio lies-before, places this argument in question.
The sentence reports that a newly published study contradicts an argument previously mentioned; it is typical journalistic German, where a relative clause identifies how the study became known.
The main clause is verb-second: 'Eine neue Studie' is the subject and 'stellt' the finite verb in position two. A relative clause 'die dem ARD-Hauptstadtstudio vorliegt' modifies 'Studie'; its finite verb stands at the end because the clause is introduced by the relative pronoun 'die'. The separable verb 'vorliegen' sends its prefix 'vor' to the end of the relative clause. 'dem ARD-Hauptstadtstudio' is dative, the object governed by 'vorliegen'; 'dieses Argument' is the accusative object of the fixed expression 'in Frage stellen'.
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stellt dieses Argument
The subject phrase comes first, so the finite verb must occupy second position in this declarative 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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die dem ARD-Hauptstadtstudio vorliegt
The relative clause is verb-final, with the separable verb's prefix closing the clause.
In a subordinate clause the finite verb stands last. Where the clause also holds a participle or an infinitive, the finite verb goes after them, so the order at the end is participle then auxiliary.
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die dem ARD-Hauptstadtstudio vorliegt
'die' is the relative pronoun referring back to 'Studie' and opens the relative clause.
A relative pronoun takes its gender and number from the noun it refers back to, and its case from the job it does inside the relative clause. The clause is verb-final and always separated by a comma.
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dem ARD-Hauptstadtstudio
'vorliegen' governs the dative for the party to whom something is available.
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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dieses Argument
'Argument' is the direct object of 'stellen' within the fixed expression 'in Frage stellen'.
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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vorliegt
The prefix 'vor' of 'vorliegen' moves to the end of the relative 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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Eine neue Studie ... dieses Argument
Article and adjective endings reflect the feminine 'Studie' and the neuter 'Argument'.
Every German noun is masculine, feminine or neuter. The gender is a property of the word rather than of the thing it names, and it decides the form of every article, adjective and pronoun that refers to it, so it has to be learned with the noun.
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dieses Argument
'dieses' points back to an argument already under discussion.
Dieser and jener decline like the definite article. The article forms themselves are also used demonstratively in speech, with stress doing the work: Den kenne ich.
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Words(12)
- ein
a, an, one
determinerA1indefinite
The form einer here is dative feminine singular, not the pronoun meaning 'one'.
- neu
new
adjectiveA1
- die Studie
study
nounB1pl. Studiengen. Studieweak declension
- die
who, which, that
pronounA2relative
Demonstrative 'die' pointing back to a previously mentioned noun; stronger than plain 'sie'.
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- das ARD-Hauptstadtstudio
ARD capital studio (ARD's Berlin studio)
nounC2pl. ARD-Hauptstadtstudiosgen. ARD-Hauptstadtstudiosstrong declension
Proper name of the Berlin studio of ARD, the umbrella organisation of German public broadcasters; treat it as a fixed name.
- vorliegen
to be available (to somebody), to have been submitted (to somebody), to be on the table
verbB2vorliegen, lag vor, hat vorgelegenmit habenseparablestronggoverns dative
The person who has the document goes in the dative: 'Dem Ausschuss liegt der Bericht vor.' Very frequent in news meaning 'a document has been obtained/is circulating'.
- stellen
to put, to place, to pose (a question), to provide (zur Verfügung stellen)
verbA2stellen, stellte, hat gestelltmit habenweak
On its own stellen means 'put/place'; in 'zur Verfügung stellen' the whole phrase means 'to make available'.
- dies
this, that
determinerA1demonstrative
- das Argument
argument (reason in a debate)
nounB1pl. Argumentegen. Argumentesstrong declension
Means a reasoned point in a discussion, not a quarrel.
- in
in, into
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Dative for location, accusative for direction.
- die Frage
question
nounA1pl. Fragengen. Frageweak declension