Word
Inwiefern ist die Ausbeutung reduziert worden?
Meaning
In what way has the exploitation been reduced?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Inwiefern ist die Ausbeutung reduziert worden?
sein
to be
der
who, which, that (relative pronoun; die, das)
werden
to be (passive auxiliary + past participle)
reduzieren
to reduce
Questions & Answers about Inwiefern ist die Ausbeutung reduziert worden?
What is the difference between inwiefern and inwieweit? Could I use inwieweit here?
Inwiefern typically asks 'in what way' or 'how so,' looking for a qualitative explanation. Inwieweit asks 'to what extent' or 'how much,' looking for a degree or amount. However, native speakers often use them interchangeably in everyday speech. You could absolutely use inwieweit here, which would just shift the nuance slightly from 'how was it reduced' to 'how much was it reduced.'
Why does this sentence use ist ... worden instead of hat ... worden or ist ... geworden?
This is the Present Perfect Passive (Perfekt Passiv). The German passive is built with the helper verb werden, which forms its perfect tense with sein (here, ist), never with haben. Furthermore, when werden acts as a passive helper, its past participle drops the ge- prefix, making it worden rather than the regular geworden.
Why are there two verbs (reduziert worden) stacked at the very end of the sentence?
Inwiefern acts as the question word in position 1, pushing the conjugated verb ist to position 2. Because this is a main clause, the rest of the multi-part verb complex (reduziert worden) is kicked to the very end of the sentence, creating the classic German verb bracket around the subject die Ausbeutung.