German carries its own grammar to get right on top of the general problems with AI prose, and models default to a narrow set of structural habits a fluent reader identifies immediately.
- Compound nouns extended past readability
- A model reaches for one long Kompositum where two shorter sentences would communicate the same content more clearly.
- Nominal phrasing replacing a plain verb
- Die Durchführung der Überprüfung in place of überprüfen: grammatically correct, but it reads as bureaucratic rather than composed.
- Nominalstil in place of a subordinating conjunction
- In Anbetracht der Tatsache, dass instead of a plain da or weil, a habit borrowed from official German that the model reproduces without judgment about when it fits.
- Subordinate clauses extended past the verb's reach
- German correctly places the verb at the end of a subordinate clause; the model stretches the clause until the reader has lost track of the subject before the verb resolves it.
- Darüber hinaus and zudem as reflex openers
- Formal connectors opening paragraph after paragraph independent of whether the argument requires a new one.