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Wir lesen den Artikel, weil uns das Privatleben der Stars fasziniert.

Wir lesen den Artikel, weil uns das Privatleben der Stars fasziniert.
We are reading the article because the private life of the stars fascinates us.
From Lesson 186:Possessive relative pronouns (dessen, deren)·German

Questions & Answers about Wir lesen den Artikel, weil uns das Privatleben der Stars fasziniert.

Why is fasziniert at the very end of the sentence?
The word weil (because) is a subordinating conjunction. This means it kicks the conjugated verb, fasziniert, to the very end of its clause.
Why does the object uns come before the subject das Privatleben?
In German, if the object is a pronoun (like uns) and the subject is a regular noun (like das Privatleben), the pronoun object usually jumps ahead of the noun subject. Putting the short pronoun first sounds much more natural.
Wait, isn't Star a masculine noun? Why does it say der Stars?
You are right that it is der Star (masculine) in the singular. However, here we are using the genitive plural to mean "of the stars". The plural is die Stars, and in the genitive case, the plural article die always changes to der.
This lesson is about relative pronouns. How would I rewrite this to say "the stars, whose private life fascinates us"?
You would use the plural genitive relative pronoun deren: die Stars, deren Privatleben uns fasziniert. Here, deren (whose) replaces the genitive phrase der Stars (of the stars) to connect the ideas.

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