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From Bundesjustizministerin: Hubig will Mietern Einbau von Klimaanlagen erleichtern, tagesschau.de, 19 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
I am thinking in particular of tenancy law.
Word for word: I think especially at the tenancy law.
The speaker singles out one example among several topics, saying that tenancy law is what they have especially in mind.
A simple main-clause statement with verb-second word order. The reflexive dative verb 'denken an' takes the two-way preposition 'an' with accusative; 'insbesondere' is a modal adverb modifying the prepositional phrase.
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Ich denke
The finite verb 'denke' stands in second position after the subject in this 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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denke ... an das Mietrecht
'Denken an' is a fixed verb-preposition combination taking accusative.
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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Ich denke
'Denke' carries the first-person singular ending matching 'ich'.
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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denke
The present tense is used, as is normal in German, to express current mental activity.
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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an das Mietrecht
'An' takes the accusative here as part of the fixed expression 'denken an'.
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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das Mietrecht
The noun phrase is the object of the preposition 'an' and therefore 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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das Mietrecht
The definite article 'das' agrees with the neuter noun 'Mietrecht'.
Der, die and das change their form according to the gender, number and case of the noun. The full set of sixteen forms is the backbone of the case system, because most other endings follow the same pattern.
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Mietrecht
'Mietrecht' compounds 'Miete' (rent) and 'Recht' (law).
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(6)
- ich
I
pronounA1personal
- denken
to think
verbA1denken, dachte, hat gedachtmit habenmixedan + accusative
Mixed verb with vowel change (dachte, gedacht); in 'als gedacht' the participle stands for 'than (was) thought'.
- insbesondere
especially, in particular
adverbB2modal
More formal than besonders.
- an
on, at, by
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Dative for points in time and location (am Montag), accusative for direction.
- das
the
determinerA1definite
- das Mietrecht
tenancy law, law of lease
nounB2pl. Mietrechtegen. Mietrechtsstrong declension