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From Unfälle mit E-Scootern: "Jeder Helm ist eine Hilfe", tagesschau.de, 18 August 2026. Quoted for study. The words are the publisher's; the analysis is ours.
Meaning
On the one hand we have the sober riders during the day, who come in with classic injuries like you get from cycling.
Word for word: We have on the one side the sober travelling-ones by-day, those come with classic injuries as with-the bicycle-riding.
A speaker, likely a doctor or emergency worker, distinguishes daytime riders who are sober and arrive with typical cycling injuries — implicitly contrasting them with another group mentioned later.
'haben' is the finite verb in second position after the subject 'Wir'. 'auf der einen Seite' is a fixed phrase with the two-way preposition 'auf' taking the dative. 'die nüchternen Fahrenden' is a nominalised plural adjective with weak adjective endings after the definite article. The second clause begins with the relative pronoun 'die' but keeps main-clause word order ('die kommen'), a spoken-language pattern where the relative clause is loosely attached rather than strictly subordinated. 'mit klassischen Verletzungen' has dative after 'mit'; 'beim Fahrradfahren' contracts 'bei dem' and takes a nominalised infinitive.
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Wir haben
The finite verb 'haben' stands in second position after the subject in this declarative main clause.
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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die nüchternen Fahrenden
'Fahrenden' is a nominalised participle/adjective meaning 'the riders', declined with adjective endings.
An adjective can be capitalised and used as a noun, and it goes on taking adjective endings: der Alte, ein Alter, etwas Neues.
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die kommen mit klassischen Verletzungen
'die' refers back to 'Fahrenden', but the clause keeps main-clause word order, a loose spoken-language attachment rather than strict verb-final subordination.
A relative pronoun takes its gender and number from the noun it refers back to, and its case from the job it does inside the relative clause. The clause is verb-final and always separated by a comma.
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auf der einen Seite
'auf' takes the dative here because it expresses a static, figurative location.
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 klassischen Verletzungen
'mit' always governs the dative, hence the dative plural noun phrase.
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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die nüchternen Fahrenden
After the definite article 'die' the adjective takes the weak ending -en in the plural.
After a definite article the adjective ending is e in the five nominative and accusative singular slots and en everywhere else, because the article has already shown the case and gender.
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beim Fahrradfahren
'Fahrradfahren' combines 'Fahrrad' and 'Fahren' into one nominalised compound.
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(17)
- wir
we
pronounA1personal
- haben
to have
verbA1haben, hatte, hat gehabtmit habenirregular
As an auxiliary it forms the perfect tenses of most verbs.
- auf
on, onto
prepositionA1governs accusative or dative
Location takes the dative, movement towards the accusative.
- der
the
determinerA1definite
Appears twice: dative feminine 'der Wirtschaft' and nominative plural 'die Beschlüsse'.
- einer
one, one of
pronounA2indefinite
Here stands for 'ein Problem'; declines like the indefinite article.
- die Seite
page, side
nounA2pl. Seitengen. Seiteweak declension
'Beide Seiten' often means 'both parties' in negotiations.
- nüchtern
sober, not having drunk alcohol, plain, unemotional
adjectiveB2nüchterner, am nüchternsten
Here literally 'sober', contrasting with intoxicated riders elsewhere in the text.
- der Fahrende
riders, those travelling
nounB2pl. die Fahrendengen. des Fahrendenadjectival declension
Nominalised adjective; declined with adjective endings and capitalised.
- untertags
during the day, by day
adverbC1temporal
Southern German/Austrian register; Standard German often uses 'tagsüber'.
- die
who, which, that
pronounA2relative
Demonstrative 'die' pointing back to a previously mentioned noun; stronger than plain 'sie'.
- kommen
to come
verbA1kommen, kam, ist gekommenmit seinstrong
Figurative here: the decisions should 'come', i.e. appear soon.
- mit
with, by (means of transport)
prepositionA1governs dative
Always dative, including travel: 'mit dem Bus, mit dem Rad'.
- klassisch
classic, typical
adjectiveB2klassischer, am klassischsten
- die Verletzung
injury
nounB1pl. Verletzungengen. Verletzungstrong declension
- wie
like, as, how
conjunctionA1subordinating
Here introducing an example, equivalent to 'such as'.
- beim
at the, with regard to
prepositionA1governs dative
Contraction of 'bei dem'; used before nominalised verbs such as 'beim Fahrradfahren'.
- das Fahrradfahren
cycling, riding a bike
nounA2pl. —gen. Fahrradfahrensstrong declension