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Third sentence of 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
He advocates comprehensive insurance.
Word for word: He pleads for a full insurance.
Used in formal or professional contexts (politics, law, business) to say that someone argues in favour of something, here for all-inclusive (comprehensive) insurance coverage.
A simple main clause in the present tense with verb-second word order. The verb 'plädieren' is fixed to the preposition 'für' with the accusative, so 'eine Vollversicherung' is an accusative prepositional object. The feminine noun takes the indefinite article with a mixed adjective-style ending '-e'.
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Er plädiert
In this main clause the finite verb plädiert occupies the second position after the subject Er.
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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plädiert für eine Vollversicherung
The verb plädieren is fixed to the preposition für, which governs the accusative and introduces its object.
Many verbs are tied to one preposition and one case, and the pairing rarely matches the English one. Warten auf takes the accusative, denken an takes the accusative, teilnehmen an takes the dative.
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Er plädiert
The third person singular subject er requires the -t ending on plädiert.
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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für eine Vollversicherung
The preposition für takes the accusative, so the article eine and the noun are 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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Vollversicherung
The noun is a compound of voll + Versicherung written as one word.
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(5)
- er
he
pronounA1personal
- plädieren
to plead, to argue (for), to call (for)
verbC1plädieren, plädierte, hat plädiertmit habenweak
Formal register, common in news and legal language.
- für
for
prepositionA1governs accusative
Here für Dienstag names the day the forecast applies to, not a beneficiary.
- 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