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From Kabinettsklausur in Neuhardenberg: Im Trainingslager mit dem Kanzler, tagesschau.de, 26 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
Neuhardenberg. It is early in the morning, still before 7 o'clock, and already the cabinet members are training.
Word for word: Neuhardenberg It is early morning, still before 7 o'clock, there train the cabinet members already.
A journalistic scene-setting sentence: it is still before seven in the morning, yet the members of the cabinet are already out exercising, implying unusual discipline or dedication.
Two main clauses joined loosely: a present-tense copula clause (es ist früh morgens) and a verb-second clause introduced by the adverb da, which pushes the subject die Kabinettsmitglieder after the finite verb trainieren.
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da trainieren die Kabinettsmitglieder schon
The fronted adverb da occupies first position, so the finite verb comes second and the subject follows 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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ist ... trainieren
Both clauses use the present tense to describe what is happening now.
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 Kabinettsmitglieder trainieren
The plural subject takes the plural finite form trainieren.
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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die Kabinettsmitglieder
The subject of the clause stands 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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Kabinettsmitglieder
Kabinett + Mitglied form a compound joined by the -s- linking element.
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(14)
- das Neuhardenberg
Neuhardenberg (town in Brandenburg)
nounC2gen. Neuhardenbergsstrong declension
- es
it
pronounA1personal
Often a dummy subject, as in es geht darum.
- sein
to be
verbA1sein, war, ist gewesenmit seinirregular
Copula here linking subject to predicate noun.
- früh
early
adjectiveA1früher, am frühesten
- morgens
in the morning(s)
adverbA2temporal
- noch
still, yet
adverbA1temporal
Before a comparative, 'noch stärker' means 'even stronger'.
- vor
before, in front of, ago
prepositionA1governs dative
With clock time ('vor 7 Uhr') it means 'before' and takes no visible case change.
- 7
seven
numeralA1
- die Uhr
o'clock, clock
nounA1pl. Uhrengen. Uhrweak declension
In time expressions like '7 Uhr' it stays uninflected and means 'o'clock'.
- da
there, then, so, because (subordinating)
adverbA1local
As a sentence-opening adverb it often has causal force: 'that is why'.
- trainieren
to train, to work out
verbA2trainieren, trainierte, hat trainiertmit habenweak
- die
the
determinerA1definite
- das Kabinettsmitglied
member of the cabinet, cabinet member
nounC1pl. Kabinettsmitgliedergen. Kabinettsmitgliedsmixed declension
- schon
already, already now
adverbA1temporal
In other contexts schon is also a modal particle adding reassurance or emphasis.