Breakdown of Die Getränke für das Festival sind besorgt.
sein
to be
für
for
das Getränk
the beverage / the drink
das Festival
the festival
besorgen
to get (procure)
Questions & Answers about Die Getränke für das Festival sind besorgt.
Why do we use sind here instead of werden to form the passive?
This sentence uses the stative passive. We use sein (here, sind) plus the past participle to show the resulting state of a completed action. The drinks have already been acquired and sit there ready. If someone were buying them right now, we would use the dynamic passive with werden and say Die Getränke werden besorgt.
Doesn't the word besorgt usually mean "worried"?
Context is key here! When used to describe a person's feelings, the adjective besorgt does mean "worried". However, in this sentence it functions as the past participle of the verb besorgen, which means "to get", "to procure", or "to take care of" acquiring something.
Why is there no ge- at the beginning of the past participle besorgt?
Verbs that start with an inseparable prefix, such as be-, ent-, er-, or ver-, never take a ge- in their past participle form. Since the infinitive verb is besorgen, its participle is simply besorgt.
Just as a refresher, why is it das Festival instead of dem Festival?
The preposition für is a strict accusative preposition, meaning it always forces the noun that follows it into the accusative case. Because Festival is a neuter noun, its accusative article remains das.
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