"The club is against kings."
Translation:Der Verein ist gegen Könige.
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Why isn't gegen pushed to the end of the sentence?
There's no reason for it to be.
It's not a separable verb prefix, for example.
It's simply a preposition -- which comes in front ("pre") of the thing it modifies (here: Könige).
I thought the rule was that the second verb always goes at the end? Is that only if the first verb is a "modal" one? If so, what is a "modal" verb and why isn't is/ist considered one?
I thought the rule was that the second verb always goes at the end?
Yes, but there is only one verb here: ist.
Did you think gegen was a verb -- perhaps because it happens to end in -en? It's not. It's a common-or-garden preposition. It's no more a verb than "against" is.
Ohhh... Ha! Yeah that's exactly what it was. Thank for the clarification lol :P
Nope. If you want to use an article in there, i.e. "The club is against the kings", then it's Der Verein ist gegen die Könige (accusative, plural)
Against the king = Gegen den König (accusative, singular, masc)
Could you translate this as "das Kreuz ist gegen Könige" in the context of a card game?
Isn't "clubs" always plural (and without article) in English in the context of playing cards?
(Also, I'm not sure what it would mean for a suit to be against a group of face cards, but I suppose there may be card games that use such terminology.)
Yeah, you are probably right about the plural "the clubs". I am not a specialist in card games and the proper English terminology.