Breakdown of Das ist die Agentur, der wir den Bericht schicken.
sein
to be
wir
we
schicken
to send
der Bericht
the report
der
who, which, that (relative pronoun; die, das)
die Agentur
the agency
dem
whom / which (dative relative pronoun)
Questions & Answers about Das ist die Agentur, der wir den Bericht schicken.
Why is the relative pronoun der when die Agentur is a feminine noun?
Relative pronouns take their gender from the noun they refer to (die Agentur), but their case comes from their role in the new clause. We are sending the report to the agency, making it the indirect object. The verb schicken (to send) requires the dative case for the receiver, and the feminine dative relative pronoun is der.
How does German handle the "to" in "the agency to which we send"?
German often doesn't need a separate preposition for "to" with verbs like schicken. The dative case itself shows the receiving action. By using the dative relative pronoun der, the sentence inherently means "to whom" or "to which."
Why is it den Bericht instead of der Bericht?
Bericht (report) is a masculine noun. Inside the relative clause, it is the direct object because it is the actual thing being sent. Direct objects take the accusative case, which changes the masculine "the" from der to den.
Why does the verb schicken go at the very end of the sentence?
The section after the comma is a relative clause, which is used to add more information about the agency. Relative clauses are dependent clauses, and in German, a dependent clause always kicks its conjugated verb (schicken) to the very end.
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