Word
Wir stellen das Geld zur Verfügung.
Meaning
We are providing the money.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Wir stellen das Geld zur Verfügung.
das Geld
the money
wir
we
zur
to the (zu + der)
stellen
to place / to put (upright)
Questions & Answers about Wir stellen das Geld zur Verfügung.
Why use the phrase zur Verfügung stellen instead of a normal verb?
This is a Nomen-Verb-Verbindung (noun-verb support construction). German often pairs a specific noun and a basic verb to express an idea formally. Here, zur Verfügung (at the disposal) and stellen (to place) combine to mean 'to provide' or 'to make available'. It is a very common way to sound professional and precise in German.
Why does zur Verfügung go at the very end of the sentence?
In these fixed noun-verb constructions, the prepositional phrase (zur Verfügung) acts exactly like a separable prefix. The conjugated verb (stellen) takes the normal second position in the sentence, and the fixed noun phrase gets pushed all the way to the end of the clause.
Why is it zur instead of just zu?
The word Verfügung is a feminine noun (die Verfügung). The preposition zu always triggers the dative case. In the dative, the feminine article die becomes der. The word zur is simply the mandatory contraction of zu and der.
How would I say 'We are providing HIM the money' using this structure?
You would add a dative pronoun right after the conjugated verb, before the direct object: Wir stellen ihm das Geld zur Verfügung. The person who receives the provided item is always expressed in the dative case with this expression.