Breakdown of Der Helm wurde dem Standard gemäß geprüft.
prüfen
to check / to test
der
who, which, that (relative pronoun; die, das)
werden
to be (passive auxiliary + past participle)
gemäß
according to / in accordance with (rules, standards)
Questions & Answers about Der Helm wurde dem Standard gemäß geprüft.
Why does gemäß come after dem Standard in this sentence?
The word gemäß is a flexible preposition that can go either before or after its noun. Here it is placed after the noun. You could also perfectly say gemäß dem Standard, though placing it after the noun is very common in formal, legal, or technical German.
Why is it dem Standard instead of den Standard?
The preposition gemäß always requires the dative case, regardless of whether it comes before or after the noun. Because Standard is a masculine noun (der Standard), it changes to dem Standard in the dative.
Why use wurde... geprüft instead of war... geprüft for 'was tested'?
This sentence describes an action or process that happened in the past (the event of testing), so it uses the passive voice with wurde, the simple past of werden. If you used war, it would describe a fixed state, meaning 'the helmet was in a tested condition' rather than describing the actual test taking place.
What does geprüft mean outside of testing physical objects like a helmet?
The infinitive verb is prüfen, which broadly means to test, check, or examine. It is highly versatile and used not just for physical safety tests, but also for verifying documents, checking facts, or taking an academic exam (die Prüfung).