| German > English |
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| es tut mir leid |
| Phrase. Sorry. |
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| Es tut mir leid, aber ich kann morgen nicht kommen. - Sorry, but I can't come tomorrow. |
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| Analysis |
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| Es |
| n. (music) E-flat |
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| n. (psychoanalysis) id |
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| pron. Nominative and accusative neuter third-person singular personal pronoun |
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| Wo ist das Buch? Es liegt auf dem Tisch. - Where's the book? It’s on the table. |
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| Wo ist das Kind? Ich habe es. - Where is the child? I have it. |
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| tut |
| v. third-person singular present of tun |
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| Es tut mir leid. - I am sorry. |
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| v. second-person plural present of tun |
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| v. plural imperative of tun |
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| tun |
| v. To do (to perform or execute an action). |
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| Tu es! - Do it! |
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| Man tut, was man kann. - One does what one can. |
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| Er tat das, was man ihm gesagt hat. - He did as he was told. |
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| Das einzige, was er je tat, war arbeiten. - The only thing he ever did was work. |
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| mir |
| pron. personal dative of ich: me, to me: |
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| Er gab es mir. - He gave it to me. |
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| pron. (dialectal, or colloquial) Alternative form of wir, t=we |
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| Leid |
| n. woe, grief, distress, sorrow, suffering, affliction |
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| n. wrong, harm, injury |
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| adj. (obsolete outside of fixed expressions) distressing, uncomfortable |
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