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Sentence

Du hast da eine lichte Stelle.

Translation

You have an almost bald spot.



Analysis


Du
     pron. alternative case form of du you (singular) (especially when used as a direct address in letters)
     n. (literally) the thou, the you (singular)
     pron. you (thou, singular familiar)
hast
     v. second-person singular present of haben
     haben
          v. (auxiliary) to have (forms the perfect and past perfect tenses)
          v. to have; to own (to possess, have ownership of; to possess a certain characteristic)
          v. to have; to hold (to contain within itself/oneself)
          v. to have, get (to obtain, acquire)
          v. to get (to receive)
          v. to have (to be scheduled to attend)
          v. to have (to be afflicted with, suffer from)
          v. to contain, be composed of, equal
          v. (impersonal, dialectal, with es) there be, there is, there are
          v. to make a fuss
          v. (colloquial with es and mit) to be occupied with, to like, to be into
          v. (colloquial with es and von or über) to talk about
da
     adv. (local) there; here
     adv. (temporal) then; so; at that moment
     adv. (colloquial) (replaces any takes a reflexive pronoun adverb when the context is clear)
     conj. since; as; because; given that
     conj. (literary, dated) when
haben da
     v. first-person plural present of dahaben
     v. third-person plural present of dahaben
     v. first-person plural subjunctive of dahaben
     v. third-person plural subjunctive of dahaben
eine
     num. feminine singular of ein
     art. feminine singular of ein: a, an
     pron. feminine singular of einer
     pron. masculine nominative singular of einer
     pron. singular of einer
lichte
     v. first-person singular present of lichten
     v. first-person singular subjunctive of lichten
     v. third-person singular subjunctive of lichten
     v. singular imperative of lichten
     lichten
          v. to thin out; to clear; to make sparse
          v. to thin out; to be cleared; to become sparse (usually slowly)
          v. to become light, bright (usually slowly)
          v. to become bright; to lose sternness
          v. (nautical) to weigh (the anchor)
Stelle
     n-f. place, stead, location, position, lieu
     n-f. position (as a job), employment
     n-f. digit, decimal place




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