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Second sentence of Finanzminister in den tagesthemen: Klingbeil sieht Regierung nach Klausur im Aufbruch, tagesschau.de, 26 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
In the Tagesthemen news programme, the SPD leader also appealed for unity within the coalition: the country, he said, now needed to be made strong again.
Word for word: In the Tagesthemen appealed the SPD-chief also to the unity of-the coalition: It goes now about, the country again stronger to make.
A news report saying that on the TV programme Tagesthemen the SPD chairman called on the coalition to stay united, quoting him indirectly as saying the task now was to make the country stronger again.
A main clause with verb-second order and a prepositional phrase fronted ('In den tagesthemen'), followed by a colon introducing reported speech in Konjunktiv I ('es gehe ... darum ... zu machen'), the standard form of indirect quotation in journalism. 'an die Geschlossenheit' is accusative because 'appellieren an' governs the accusative; 'der SPD-Chef' is nominative subject. The final infinitive clause uses 'zu machen' with the separable verb 'stärker zu machen' (zu inserted before the separable prefix).
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appellierte der SPD-Chef
The fronted prepositional phrase occupies position one, so the finite verb follows immediately in second position.
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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appellierte ... an die Geschlossenheit
Appellieren is fixed with 'an' plus 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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gehe
Konjunktiv I marks indirect speech after the colon, standard in news reporting.
Reported speech in journalism and formal writing. It is built from the infinitive stem, and where its form would be identical to the ordinary present, Konjunktiv II is used instead to keep the reporting visible.
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das Land wieder stärker zu machen
The complement of 'es geht darum' is a zu-infinitive clause.
Many verbs, adjectives and nouns take an infinitive introduced by zu, which stands at the end of its clause. With a separable verb the zu goes between the prefix and the stem, giving aufzustehen.
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appellierte
Written narrative reporting typically uses the simple preterite rather than the perfect.
The simple past is the written narrative past. In speech it survives mainly in sein, haben and the modals, where hatte and war are far commoner than the perfect forms.
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der Koalition
The genitive article marks Koalition as an attribute of Geschlossenheit.
The genitive shows possession and follows a small set of prepositions. Masculine and neuter nouns add s or es. In speech it is often replaced by von plus the dative, but it is alive in writing and in fixed expressions.
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stärker
Comparative of stark used predicatively without an ending.
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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In den tagesthemen
'In' takes dative for static location, here within the programme.
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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darum
'Darum' points forward to the following infinitive clause as its correlate.
Where a preposition would be followed by a pronoun standing for a thing rather than a person, German fuses the two: damit, darauf, davon. An r appears between them when the preposition begins with a vowel.
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Words(17)
- in
in, into
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Dative for location, accusative for direction.
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- die Tagesthemen
German TV news programme
nounC2pl. Tagesthemeninvariable declension
Programme name, always plural in form, so it takes dative plural 'den'.
- appellieren
to appeal (to), to call for, to urge
verbC1appellieren, appellierte, hat appelliertmit habenweakan + accusative
Fixed pattern: an jemanden appellieren, etwas zu tun – 'to appeal to someone to do something'.
- der SPD-Chef
SPD leader/chairman
nounB1pl. SPD-Chefsgen. SPD-Chefsmixed declension
- auch
also, too
adverbA1modal
Focus particle; here it means the ministers are included among others already named.
- an
on, at, by
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Dative for points in time and location (am Montag), accusative for direction.
- die Geschlossenheit
unity, solidarity, cohesion
nounC1pl. Geschlossenheitengen. Geschlossenheitadjectival declension
- die Koalition
coalition
nounB2pl. Koalitionengen. Koalitionweak declension
- es
it
pronounA1personal
Often a dummy subject, as in es geht darum.
- gehen
to go, to walk
verbA1gehen, ging, ist gegangenmit seinstrong
With a bare infinitive it means to go somewhere to do that thing: 'gehen joggen' = go jogging.
- jetzt
now
adverbA1temporal
- darum
about it (es geht darum), therefore, that is why
adverbB1conjunctional
Alone it means 'that is why'; in es geht darum it is a da-compound meaning 'the point is'.
- das Land
country, land, state
nounA1pl. Ländergen. Landesstrong declension
Here 'the country/region' in the sense of its economy.
- wieder
again, once more
adverbA1temporal
Do not confuse with wider 'against'.
- stark
strong, powerful
adjectiveA1stärker, am stärksten
- machen
to make, to do
verbA1machen, machte, hat gemachtmit habenweak
Part of many fixed expressions such as 'sich auf etwas gefasst machen'.