Note 10 — A GERMAN SCIENCE READER.
Reading edition
die ... Stelle: the place. This is the compound adjective construction which is so common in scientific German. Observe how the phrase is built up: die werdende Stellethe becoming place die leer werdende Stellethe empty-becoming place die dadurch leer werdende Stellethe thereby empty becoming place The article (die) or some other determining word is separated from its noun (Stelle) by a number of words; but in all cases the word next before the noun is an adjective or participle (werdende), which in turn is preceded by a word qualifying it (leer) and so on. In English the corresponding words follow the noun in the reverse order. This note will be frequently referred to. [10]