Breakdown of Während der Saison bieten Restaurants ausreichend Gemüse an.
das Gemüse
the vegetable
das Restaurant
the restaurant
anbieten
to offer
während
during
Questions & Answers about Während der Saison bieten Restaurants ausreichend Gemüse an.
What case does während govern, and how do I know der Saison is correct?
während is one of the German prepositions that normally takes the genitive case. Since Saison is feminine singular (die Saison), its genitive form uses the article der (genitive singular feminine = der). So während der Saison literally means “during the season.” (Note: colloquially you’ll also hear während with dative, but standard written German treats it as genitive.)
Why is the verb split into bieten … an instead of just using bieten?
Because the full verb is the separable-prefix verb anbieten (“to offer”). In main clauses, separable prefixes move to the end of the sentence. That’s why you see
• bieten (the stem) in second position, and
• an (the prefix) at the very end.
Why isn’t ausreichend declined? Shouldn’t it be ausreichendes Gemüse?
Here ausreichend acts like a quantifier (similar to English “enough”), not an attributive adjective. Quantifiers such as ausreichend, genug, viel, wenig stay uninflected when they modify an uncountable noun. If you wanted it as a regular adjective, you would say ausreichendes Gemüse, but that shifts the nuance to “sufficient (specific) vegetable,” which changes the meaning.
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