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From Vor Wahl in Sachsen-Anhalt: Klingbeil unterwegs auf schwierigem Terrain, tagesschau.de, 21 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
Willingmann, grey hair, grey beard, a long-serving professor, made no secret in recent weeks of the fact that so far he has received no tailwind for his election campaign from the federal SPD or from the decisions coming out of Berlin.
Word for word: Willingmann, grey hairs, grey beard, long-standing professor, made in the past weeks no secret of it, that he from the federal SPD and from the decisions out of Berlin so far no tailwind for his election campaign gotten has.
Used in journalistic reporting: Willingmann has openly admitted that the federal SPD and Berlin's decisions have given him no support for his campaign.
A statement with an appositive noun phrase describing the subject, the main verb 'machte' in the preterite taking the fixed expression 'keinen Hehl daraus machen', and a subordinate clause introduced by 'dass' with verb-final perfect tense ('hat ... bekommen').
Rules at work(9)
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machte
The finite main-clause verb stands in second position after the long appositive subject phrase.
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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hat ... bekommen
In the dass-clause the auxiliary 'hat' comes last, before only the participle, showing verb-final order.
In a subordinate clause the finite verb stands last. Where the clause also holds a participle or an infinitive, the finite verb goes after them, so the order at the end is participle then auxiliary.
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dass
'dass' introduces the content clause depending on 'daraus'.
Weil, dass, wenn, als, ob, obwohl, damit, nachdem, bevor and the rest introduce a subordinate clause and send its finite verb to the very end.
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daraus
'daraus' links the fixed expression to the following dass-clause.
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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machte
Written narrative style prefers the simple preterite 'machte'.
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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hat ... bekommen
'bekommen' forms its perfect with haben.
The perfect is the ordinary spoken past. It is built from the present of haben in second position and the past participle at the end of the clause. Most verbs take haben, including every verb with a direct object and every reflexive verb.
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keinen Hehl
Negation of a noun phrase without an article uses 'kein'.
A noun that would take ein or no article at all is negated with kein rather than nicht. Kein declines exactly like ein and has a plural, so Ich habe keine Zeit and Ich habe keine Kinder.
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von der Bundes-SPD und von den Entscheidungen aus Berlin
The prepositions von and aus govern the dative.
The dative marks the indirect object, usually the person something is given, said or shown to. A number of common verbs take a dative object where English would use a direct one, and several prepositions always take it.
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graue Haare, grauer Bart, langjähriger Professor
Adjectives in these appositive phrases have no article and take strong endings.
With no article in front of it the adjective has to carry the case marking itself, so it takes the endings the definite article would have had, with the exception of the masculine and neuter genitive singular.
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Words(29)
- der Willingmann
surname Willingmann
nounC2pl. —gen. Willingmannsinvariable declension
- grau
grey, gray-haired
adjectiveA2grauer, am grauesten
- das Haar
hair
nounA1pl. Haaregen. Haarsstrong declension
Usually plural 'Haare' when talking about the hair on one's head.
- der Bart
beard
nounA2pl. Bärtegen. Bartesmixed declension
- langjährig
long-standing, of many years
adjectiveB2-, -
- der Professor
professor
nounA2pl. Professorengen. Professorsmixed declension
- machen
to make, to do
verbA1machen, machte, hat gemachtmit habenweak
Part of many fixed expressions such as 'sich auf etwas gefasst machen'.
- 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'.
- vergangen
past, last
adjectiveB1-, -
Fixed in the phrase 'im vergangenen Jahr' = last year.
- die Woche
week
nounA1pl. Wochengen. Wochestrong declension
- kein
no, not a
determinerA1negative
- der Hehl
concealment
nounC1pl. -gen. Hehlsstrong declension
Almost only in the idiom 'keinen Hehl daraus machen' = to make no secret of something.
- daraus
from that, about it
adverbB1conjunctional
- dass
that
conjunctionA2subordinating
Always sends the finite verb to the end of the clause.
- er
he
pronounA1personal
- von
from, of, by
prepositionA1governs dative
Used here to mark authorship, like 'by' in English credits.
- die Bundes-SPD
federal SPD, SPD at national level
nounC1pl. -gen. Bundes-SPDinvariable declension
- und
and
conjunctionA1coordinating
- die Entscheidung
decision
nounB1pl. Entscheidungengen. Entscheidungstrong declension
- aus
out of, from, made of
prepositionA1governs dative
- das Berlin
Berlin
nounA1pl. —gen. Berlinsinvariable declension
- bisher
so far, until now
adverbB1temporal
- der Rückenwind
tailwind, boost, support
nounC1pl. Rückenwindegen. Rückenwindesstrong declension
Often metaphorical in political language: helpful momentum.
- für
for
prepositionA1governs accusative
Here für Dienstag names the day the forecast applies to, not a beneficiary.
- 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 Wahlkampf
election campaign
nounB2pl. Wahlkämpfegen. Wahlkampfesstrong declension
- bekommen
to get, to receive
verbA2bekommen, bekam, hat bekommenmit habenstrong
Often means simply 'to get/receive', not 'to become' — do not confuse with English 'become'.
- haben
to have
verbA1haben, hatte, hat gehabtmit habenirregular
As an auxiliary it forms the perfect tenses of most verbs.