Es ist dein Recht, eine klare Antwort zu bekommen.

to be

Breakdown of Es ist dein Recht, eine klare Antwort zu bekommen.

• es: it
• dein: your
• die Antwort: the answer

Questions & Answers about Es ist dein Recht, eine klare Antwort zu bekommen.

Why is there an Es at the beginning? Could I just start with Ist?

German clauses generally need an explicit subject. Here Es is a dummy/placeholder subject. Ist dein Recht, ... is ungrammatical. You could say Das ist dein Recht, ... if you are referring back to something specific, or make the infinitive group the subject: Eine klare Antwort zu bekommen ist dein Recht.

Why is it dein Recht and not deines Rechts?

Because with sein (to be), both sides take the nominative case. dein Recht is nominative. deines Rechts is genitive (“of your right”) and would be used in phrases like trotz deines Rechts (“despite your right”). Also, Recht is neuter; nominative with a possessive is simply dein Recht.

What is the role of , eine klare Antwort zu bekommen?

It’s a zu-infinitive group that specifies what the right consists of—essentially “the right to receive a clear answer.” You don’t use um zu here; um zu expresses purpose, not content.

Is the comma before the zu-infinitive required?