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From Soziale Gerechtigkeit: Wie gerecht ist die deutsche Klimapolitik?, tagesschau.de, 17 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
By Katrin Aue, ARD capital studio. The federal government's climate protection programme runs to 260 pages, and the word 'sozial' (social) appears in it around 190 times.
Word for word: From Katrin Aue, ARD-capital-studio. 260 pages has the climate-protection-programme of-the federal-government, therein comes round 190-times the word 'social' before.
A journalistic attribution followed by a fact: the government's climate programme is 260 pages long and uses the word 'social' about 190 times, implying heavy emphasis on social aspects.
The byline is a prepositional phrase naming the author. The main sentence is a statement with verb-second word order: the numeral phrase '260 Seiten' fronts the clause, so the finite verb 'hat' follows in second position and the subject 'das Klimaschutzprogramm' comes later. The genitive attribute 'der Bundesregierung' marks possession. The second clause is introduced by the resumptive adverb 'darin', with 'kommt ... vor' a separable-verb construction whose prefix 'vor' is stranded at the end; its subject is 'das Wort "sozial"'.
Rules at work(7)
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260 Seiten hat das Klimaschutzprogramm
The fronted measure phrase occupies the first position, forcing the finite verb 'hat' into second position while the subject follows.
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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kommt ... vor
Vorkommen is separable, so the finite stem sits in verb position and the prefix 'vor' is stranded at the end of 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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der Bundesregierung
The possessive attribute to Klimaschutzprogramm stands in the genitive case.
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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kommt ... das Wort
The finite verb agrees in number with the delayed subject 'das Wort', taking third person singular.
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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hat ... kommt vor
Both clauses state current facts using the present tense.
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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das Klimaschutzprogramm, das Wort
Neuter nouns take the neuter article 'das'.
Every German noun is masculine, feminine or neuter. The gender is a property of the word rather than of the thing it names, and it decides the form of every article, adjective and pronoun that refers to it, so it has to be learned with the noun.
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Klimaschutzprogramm, ARD-Hauptstadtstudio, Bundesregierung
German chains nouns into compounds without spaces; only the final element determines gender.
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(16)
- von
from, of, by
prepositionA1governs dative
Used here to mark authorship, like 'by' in English credits.
- die Katrin
Katrin (female first name)
nounA2pl. Katrinsgen. Katrin(s)mixed declension
- die Aue
Aue (surname), flood meadow
nounC1pl. Auengen. Auestrong declension
- das ARD-Hauptstadtstudio
ARD capital studio (ARD's Berlin studio)
nounC2pl. ARD-Hauptstadtstudiosgen. ARD-Hauptstadtstudiosstrong declension
Proper name of the Berlin studio of ARD, the umbrella organisation of German public broadcasters; treat it as a fixed name.
- 260
260
numeralA1
- die Seite
page, side
nounA2pl. Seitengen. Seiteweak declension
'Beide Seiten' often means 'both parties' in negotiations.
- haben
to have
verbA1haben, hatte, hat gehabtmit habenirregular
As an auxiliary it forms the perfect tenses of most verbs.
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- das Klimaschutzprogramm
climate protection programme
nounB2pl. Klimaschutzprogrammegen. Klimaschutzprogrammsstrong declension
- die Bundesregierung
federal government
nounB2pl. Bundesregierungengen. Bundesregierungstrong declension
- darin
in it, therein
adverbB1local
da-compound referring back to something previously mentioned; English uses 'in this' or 'about it'.
- kommen
to come
verbA1kommen, kam, ist gekommenmit seinstrong
Figurative here: the decisions should 'come', i.e. appear soon.
- rund
around, approximately
adverbB1degree
- 190-mal
190 times
adverbA2temporal
Numerals combine with '-mal' to form frequency adverbs.
- das Wort
word
nounA1pl. Wörtergen. Wortesstrong declension
'Worte' = words of speech/text; 'Wörter' = individual vocabulary items.
- sozial
social
adjectiveA2sozialer, am sozialsten