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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
The EU spends around 54 billion euros on agriculture every year.
Word for word: For the agriculture gives the EU every year around 54 billion euros out.
States how much money the European Union spends annually on farming; typical of news or informational texts about EU budgets.
A main clause with the verb in second position; the prepositional phrase 'Für die Landwirtschaft' is fronted, so the subject 'die EU' follows the finite verb 'gibt'. The separable verb ausgeben appears with its prefix 'aus' at the end of the clause. 'Rund 54 Milliarden Euro' is a numeral phrase functioning as the accusative object.
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Für die Landwirtschaft gibt die EU
The fronted prepositional phrase occupies first position, pushing the finite verb into second place and the subject after it.
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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gibt ... aus
Ausgeben is separable: the stem gibt stands in second position and the prefix aus closes the 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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gibt
The present tense states a general ongoing fact about EU spending.
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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die Landwirtschaft, jedes Jahr, rund 54 Milliarden Euro
für takes the accusative, the time expression uses the accusative, and the sum spent is the accusative object.
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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die EU gibt
Third-person singular subject die EU takes the -t ending on gibt.
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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Words(11)
- 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'.
- die Landwirtschaft
agriculture, farming
nounB1pl. Landwirtschaftengen. Landwirtschaftweak declension
- ausgeben
to spend (money)
verbB1ausgeben, gab aus, hat ausgegebenmit habenseparablemixedgoverns accusative
Separable verb; do not confuse with sich ausgeben or the noun die Ausgabe.
- die EU
EU (European Union)
nounA2pl. —gen. EUinvariable declension
- jeder
every, each
determinerA2quantifier
- das Jahr
year
nounA1pl. Jahregen. Jahresstrong declension
- rund
around, approximately
adverbB1degree
- 54
fifty-four
numeralA1
- die Milliarde
billion
nounB1pl. Milliardengen. Milliardemixed declension
German 'Milliarde' = English billion (10^9), not milliard confusion.
- der Euro
euro
nounA1pl. Eurogen. Eurostrong declension
The plural is identical to the singular: zehn Euro.