Relative Clauses

After the noun with a pronoun vs. before the noun with none

This is a genuine structural split, not just a wording difference. German relative clauses trail the noun and open with a relative pronoun (der/die/das, agreeing with the noun's gender), with the verb pushed to the very end, following the same subordinate-clause word order you already know. Telugu has no relative pronoun whatsoever: it converts the entire relative clause into a participle — నిలబడ్డ (nilabadda, 'having stood'/'standing') — and plants that participle directly in front of the noun it modifies, అక్కడ నిలబడ్డ మనిషి, 'the there-standing man', functioning exactly like a long adjective. When translating a Telugu participle-first sentence into German, expect to flip the whole clause from before the noun to after it, and to introduce a pronoun that simply doesn't exist in the Telugu original. Interestingly, this Telugu pattern converges again with German's own formal, written 'extended participial construction' at B2 (der dort stehende Mann — an adjective built straight from a participle, sitting before the noun) — so what looks foreign now will feel familiar again once you reach that structure.