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From 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
For municipal budgets, such a change would be 'a relief amounting to billions, year after year'.
Word for word: For the communal budgets would a such change "year for year a relief in billions-height".
The speaker claims that switching over would save municipalities billions every year; the subjunctive marks this as a hypothetical or reported assessment.
A statement with the finite verb wäre (Konjunktiv II of sein) in second position; the quoted phrase is a predicate nominal in nominative case after sein; Jahr für Jahr is an emphatic temporal expression; Milliardenhöhe is a compound noun governed by the preposition in with dative.
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wäre
The subjunctive form of sein signals a hypothetical consequence rather than a fact.
The form for the hypothetical, the unreal and the polite. Wäre, hätte and the modals have their own forms; most other verbs use würde plus an infinitive.
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Für die kommunalen Haushalte wäre
The fronted prepositional phrase occupies first position, so the finite verb must come second.
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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eine solche Umstellung ... eine Entlastung
Both the subject and the predicate nominal after sein appear in the nominative.
The nominative marks the subject of the clause: whoever or whatever is doing the verb. It is also the case used after the verbs sein, werden and bleiben, so both sides of Das ist mein Bruder stand in the nominative.
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Milliardenhöhe
A compound of Milliarde and Höhe meaning an amount running into billions.
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(12)
- für
for
prepositionA1governs accusative
Here für Dienstag names the day the forecast applies to, not a beneficiary.
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- kommunal
municipal, local-government
adjectiveB2
- Haushalt
household, budget
nounB2
In political contexts it means public budget.
- sein
to be
verbA1sein, war, ist gewesenmit seinirregular
Copula here linking subject to predicate noun.
- ein
a, an, one
determinerA1indefinite
The form einer here is dative feminine singular, not the pronoun meaning 'one'.
- solch
such
determinerA2demonstrative
- Umstellung
changeover, conversion, switch-over
nounC1
- das Jahr
year
nounA1pl. Jahregen. Jahresstrong declension
- Entlastung
relief, reduction of burden
nounC1
- in
in, into
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Dative for location, accusative for direction.
- Milliardenhöhe
amount in the billions
nounC1