Breakdown of Ich weiß, dass die Police diesen Fehler nicht ausschließt.
ich
I
nicht
not
dieser
this / that (fem.: diese, neut.: dieses)
der Fehler
the mistake
wissen
to know (a fact)
dass
that
die Police
the insurance policy
ausschließen
to exclude
Questions & Answers about Ich weiß, dass die Police diesen Fehler nicht ausschließt.
Why does this sentence use die Police instead of die Polizei?
Die Police is a false friend! It means an insurance policy or contract, not the police force. If you wanted to talk about law enforcement, you would use die Polizei.
ausschließt is a separable verb (ausschließen). Why isn't the prefix aus separated at the end of the sentence?
Because this is a subordinate clause introduced by dass. In a subordinate clause, the conjugated verb is pushed to the very end. When a separable verb is forced to the end like this, the prefix and the conjugated stem reunite into a single word.
Why is the demonstrative pronoun diesen used here instead of dieser?
The word Fehler (error or mistake) is a masculine noun. Because the error is the direct object being excluded by the policy, it must take the accusative case, making it diesen Fehler.
Could I put nicht earlier in the sentence, for example right after dass die Police?
Placing nicht right after Police would sound unnatural here. In German, nicht typically goes right before the specific element it negates. Since it negates the entire action of the verb (ausschließen), it belongs right before the verb at the end of the clause.
How could I apply the formal preposition bezüglich (regarding) from this lesson to this sentence?
You could adjust the phrasing to say something like: Ich weiß, dass die Police bezüglich dieses Fehlers nichts ausschließt (I know that the policy excludes nothing regarding this error). Because bezüglich is a preposition that requires the genitive case, the masculine noun phrase must change to dieses Fehlers.
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