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From Merz im Waldbrandgebiet: Der Kanzler zeigt sich wieder, tagesschau.de, 22 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
The Chancellor's 'summer break' is now officially over - with his visit to the municipality of Hürtgenwald.
Word for word: Now is the 'summer break' of the chancellor officially ended - with his visit in the municipality Hürtgenwald.
A news-style statement announcing that the Chancellor's summer recess has formally come to an end, marked by his visit to the municipality of Hürtgenwald.
A main clause with the verb sein in second position and a past participle used predicatively as an adjective-like complement ('ist ... beendet'). The genitive attribute 'des Kanzlers' marks possession, and the prepositional phrases 'mit seinem Besuch' and 'in der Gemeinde Hürtgenwald' give accompanying circumstance and location.
Rules at work(6)
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Nun ist die "Sommerpause"
The finite verb ist stands in second position after the initial adverb Nun, as required in German main clauses.
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 ... beendet
Sein in the present tense combines with a past participle to express a resulting state rather than an event.
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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ist ... beendet
The sein-plus-participle construction (Zustandspassiv) describes the state of being finished instead of using werden for a dynamic passive.
Man plus an active verb, sich lassen plus an infinitive, and sein plus an infinitive with zu all express what a passive would, and all three are commoner in speech than the werden passive.
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des Kanzlers
The genitive marks possession: the break belongs to the chancellor.
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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in der Gemeinde
In takes the dative here because it expresses location rather than movement.
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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mit seinem Besuch
Mit always governs the dative, so Besuch appears in the dative with the mixed ending -em on seinem.
Aus, außer, bei, mit, nach, seit, von and zu always take the dative. Several of them contract with the article: von dem becomes vom, zu der becomes zur.
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Words(14)
- nun
now, at this point
adverbA2temporal
Often signals a new stage in narration rather than plain 'now'.
- sein
to be
verbA1sein, war, ist gewesenmit seinirregular
Copula here linking subject to predicate noun.
- die
the
determinerA1definite
- die Sommerpause
summer break, summer recess
nounB1pl. Sommerpausengen. Sommerpausestrong declension
- der Kanzler
chancellor
nounB1pl. Kanzlergen. des Kanzlersmixed declension
Usually refers to the German head of government; der Bundeskanzler.
- offiziell
official, officially
adjectiveB1offizieller, am offizialsten
- beenden
to end, to finish
verbB1beenden, beendete, hat beendetmit habenweakgoverns accusative
- mit
with, by (means of transport)
prepositionA1governs dative
Always dative, including travel: 'mit dem Bus, mit dem Rad'.
- sein
his, its
determinerA1possessive
Endings agree with the thing possessed, not the owner: seinem Sondervermögen is dative neuter because Sondervermögen is das; here it means 'its' (the Bund's).
- der Besuch
visit
nounA2pl. Besuchegen. des Besuchesstrong declension
- 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 Gemeinde
municipality, local community, parish
nounB1pl. Gemeindengen. Gemeindestrong declension
- der Hürtgenwald
Hürtgenwald (a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia)
nounC2gen. Hürtgenwaldsstrong declension