Breakdown of Wer hat dieses teure Projekt zur Diskussion gestellt?
haben
to have
teuer
expensive
wer
who
dieser
this / that (fem.: diese, neut.: dieses)
zur
to the (zu + der)
das Projekt
the project
stellen
to place / to put (upright)
die Diskussion
the discussion
Questions & Answers about Wer hat dieses teure Projekt zur Diskussion gestellt?
This sentence uses zur Diskussion stellen. How does this relate to the transitive vs. intransitive perspective shifts we are studying?
Zur Diskussion stellen is the active, transitive version of this noun-verb pairing, meaning someone actively brings a topic up. Its intransitive partner is zur Diskussion stehen (to be up for discussion). If the project were the subject instead of the object, you would shift to the partner phrase: Dieses teure Projekt stand zur Diskussion.
Why is the adjective ending teure rather than teures in dieses teure Projekt?
Dieses is a 'der-word' and already provides the strong neuter accusative ending (-es). Because the case is already clearly marked by dieses, the adjective teuer only needs the weak ending -e. Also, notice that the root word teuer drops its internal e when an ending is added, becoming teure instead of teuere.
Could I say zu der Diskussion gestellt instead of zur Diskussion gestellt?
No, not in this context. While zur is grammatically a contraction of zu der, fixed noun-verb support constructions like this one require the contracted form. Expanding it to zu der would sound like you are moving a physical project over to a specific, previously mentioned debate, rather than using the abstract phrase for 'putting up for discussion.'
What dictates the placement of zur Diskussion right before gestellt at the end of the sentence?
In German, the two parts of a fixed noun-verb support construction stay as close together as possible. Because this sentence is in the present perfect tense, the past participle gestellt gets pushed to the very end of the sentence. The fixed noun phrase zur Diskussion naturally docks right in front of the verb it belongs to.
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