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Is the following sentence correct:
Angela Merkel hat hohe soziales Position
In the above sentence "hohe" describes the adjective "soziales" so it would not have an end-deklination.
e.g following would be wrong:
Angela Merkel hat hohes soziales Position
Please tell me if I am right.
It's singular, so you need an article or a pronoun.
Angela Merkel hat eine hohe soziale Stellung.
(Position is not common for this phrase, use Stellung instead.)
The adjectives are hoch (irregular!) and sozial, and both Position and Stellung are feminine, it's an accusative object. That's why the adjective ending is -e, not -es. The latter is for nominative and accusative neutral adjectives with indefinite article or no article at all.
Your root error is that hoch (correct declension: "hohe") does NOT actually describe the adjective sozial (correct declension: "soziale") here - it does describe the entire noun phrase soziale Position, so it has to be congruent to the noun.
eine (hohe (soziale Position)) - "hoch" does get declined
The position, which is social, is high.
eine ((hoch[ ]soziale) Position) - "hoch" does not get declined
The position is social, and the degree of this socialness is high.
In the latter case, "hoch-" will usually get appended to "sozial", but I guess you could separate them if you want. The standard case for adjective modifiers is to separate them:
eine ((ziemlich soziale) Position) - "ziemlich" does not get declined
