Word
Dieses Verhalten ist unserer Prinzipien nicht würdig.
Meaning
This behavior is not worthy of our principles.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Dieses Verhalten ist unserer Prinzipien nicht würdig.
sein
to be
nicht
not
unser
our
dieser
this / that (fem.: diese, neut.: dieses)
Questions & Answers about Dieses Verhalten ist unserer Prinzipien nicht würdig.
Why is it unserer Prinzipien and not in the dative or accusative?
The adjective würdig (worthy) belongs to a special group of adjectives that require their object to be in the genitive case. The fixed structure is einer Sache würdig sein (to be worthy of a thing). Here, unserer Prinzipien is the genitive plural form of unsere Prinzipien.
Why does the negation nicht come right before würdig instead of earlier in the sentence?
When negating a predicate adjective like würdig, the nicht is placed directly before the adjective it negates. The verb ist and the adjective würdig form a frame, pushing the genitive object unserer Prinzipien into the middle before the negation.
Why does das Prinzip become Prinzipien here? Is that a special genitive ending?
No, Prinzipien is just the standard plural form of the neuter noun das Prinzip. Many nouns of Latin origin ending in -ip take the plural ending -ien. The genitive case in this sentence is shown entirely by the -er ending on the possessive article unserer.
In casual speech, could I replace the genitive here with von plus the dative?