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Junge

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In einigen Ländern gibt es ein Fest oder Ritual, ab dem der Junge zu den Männern hält.

In some countries, there is a festival or ritual from which the boy is counted among the men.

Bei uns gibt es solche Feste heute kaum noch.

In our country, such festivals are hardly held today.

6 words above A2

celebration, festival plural: Feste feast, celebration, festival, party; firm; compact; hard; firm; fixed; rigid A2/fɛst/
ritual plural: Rituale C1/ʁiˈtu̯aːl/
ab dem← ab
from (point in time) with dative; here: 'ab dem' = 'from the (moment when)' beginning at that time or location; from; off, detached (not attached to anything anymore, having come off) A1/ap/
boy weak noun: der Junge, den Jungen, dem Jungen boy; jack A1/ˈjʊŋə/
hält← halten
holds, counts (as belonging to) irregular: hält, hielt, gehalten to hold (an object in one's hands); to stop, to halt, to hold back; to support, to hold up A1/ˈhaltn̩/
hardly, scarcely barely, hardly (qualifying verbs or adjectives); barely any, almost no (qualifying amounts); difficult, nearly impossible A1/kaʊ̯m/

Grammar in this text

Relative clause with 'ab dem'

ab dem der Junge zu den Männern hält

The relative pronoun 'dem' refers to 'Fest' or 'Ritual' and is used with the preposition 'ab' (dative). The verb 'hält' goes to the end of the relative clause.

Prepositional phrase with dative

zu den Männern

The preposition 'zu' always takes the dative case. Here 'den Männern' is the dative plural of 'die Männer'.

Present tense of irregular verb 'halten'

der Junge zu den Männern hält

The verb 'halten' changes its stem vowel from 'a' to 'ä' in the 3rd person singular: 'er hält'.

Existential construction with 'es gibt'

gibt es solche Feste

'es gibt' means 'there is/are'. The word order is inverted in the main clause: the verb 'gibt' comes before the subject 'es'.

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