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From Hitzetote in Deutschland: "Die meisten Todesfälle hätte man verhindern können", tagesschau.de, 20 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
He and his team went out on calls more often than usual on the hot days – because especially many people needed medical help.
Word for word: He and his team are on the hot days lately more-often out-driven than otherwise – there especially many people medical help needed.
Said in a news or report context: during hot days, he and his team were deployed (e.g. ambulance/emergency services) more often than usual, because many people needed medical assistance.
A main clause with a coordinated subject ('Er und sein Team'), the perfect tense of the separable verb 'ausrücken' with 'sein', a comparative with 'als', and a dash introducing an elliptical causal clause with the conjunctional adverb 'da' and verb-final position.
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Er und sein Team sind ... ausgerückt
The finite auxiliary 'sind' stands in second position after the coordinated subject phrase, as required in a German 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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sind ... ausgerückt
'Ausrücken' is a movement verb and forms its perfect with 'sein' plus the past participle.
Verbs of motion from one place to another and verbs of change of state take sein rather than haben in the perfect, along with sein, werden and bleiben themselves. Er ist gegangen, not er hat gegangen.
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häufiger ... als sonst
The comparative adverb 'häufiger' is linked to its standard of comparison by 'als'.
German adds er and st rather than using more and most, however long the adjective. Many one syllable adjectives take an umlaut, and the superlative before a noun takes an ordinary adjective ending while a standalone one uses am plus sten.
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da besonders viele Menschen medizinische Hilfe brauchten
After the subordinating conjunction 'da', the finite verb 'brauchten' moves to the end of 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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Er und sein Team sind
Two coordinated subjects take plural agreement, so the auxiliary is 'sind'.
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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ausgerückt
The participle of 'ausrücken' shows the separable prefix 'aus-' with ge- inserted before the stem.
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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den heißen Tagen
The temporal phrase 'an den heißen Tagen' puts the noun phrase in the dative plural after 'an'.
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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an den heißen Tagen
'An' governs dative here for a fixed temporal expression rather than a location with motion.
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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den heißen Tagen
After the definite article 'den' in dative plural, the adjective takes the weak ending -en.
After a definite article the adjective ending is e in the five nominative and accusative singular slots and en everywhere else, because the article has already shown the case and gender.
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viele Menschen
With no article, the quantifying adjective 'viele' carries the strong plural ending itself.
With no article in front of it the adjective has to carry the case marking itself, so it takes the endings the definite article would have had, with the exception of the masculine and neuter genitive singular.
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Menschen
'Mensch' belongs to the weak nouns whose plural and oblique forms end in -en.
A group of masculine nouns takes an n or en in every case but the nominative singular: der Student but den Studenten, dem Studenten, des Studenten. Most denote people and many end in e, ent, ist or ant.
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Words(19)
- er
he
pronounA1personal
- sein
his, its
determinerA1possessive
Endings agree with the thing possessed, not the owner: seinem Sondervermögen is dative neuter because Sondervermögen is das; here it means 'its' (the Bund's).
- das Team
team
nounA2pl. Teamsgen. Teamsstrong declension
- sein
to be
verbA1sein, war, ist gewesenmit seinirregular
Copula here linking subject to predicate noun.
- an
on, at, by
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Dative for points in time and location (am Montag), accusative for direction.
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- heiß
hot, heated
adjectiveA1heißer, am heißesten
- der Tag
day
nounA1pl. Tagegen. des Tagesmixed declension
- zuletzt
recently, lately, finally, last of all
adverbB1temporal
Can mean either 'lately' (as here) or 'last in a series'; context decides.
- häufig
frequently, often
adverbA2degree
- ausrücken
to move out, to be deployed (emergency services), to set out
verbC1rückt aus, rückte aus, ist ausgerücktmit seinseparableweak
In emergency-services contexts it means going out on calls/deployments.
- sonst
otherwise, usually, else
adverbA2modal
- da
as, since, because
conjunctionB1subordinating
As a causal conjunction it is more formal than weil.
- besonders
especially, particularly
adverbA2modal
- viel
many, much
adjectiveA2
'viel' before plural countable nouns means 'many'; its comparative is the irregular 'mehr'.
- der Mensch
human being, person
nounA1pl. Menschengen. Menschenweak declension
Weak n-declension: the genitive singular is Menschen and every plural form is Menschen.
- medizinisch
medical
adjectiveB1
- die Hilfe
help, assistance
nounA2pl. Hilfengen. Hilfestrong declension
- brauchen
to need
verbA1brauchen, brauchte, hat gebrauchtmit habenweak
takes a direct accusative object, unlike English 'need for'