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Auf Weiberfastnacht dürfen die Mädchen küssen, wen sie wollen.

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auf
     prep. (with dative) on, upon (positioned at the top of)
     prep. (with accusative) on, onto, up (moving to the top of)
     prep. (with accusative) on (indicating responsibility)
     prep. (with dative) in, at; used with certain nouns instead of bei or in
     prep. (with accusative) to; used with certain nouns instead of zu or in
     prep. (with a language name) in (see usage note below)
     prep. (linguistics) in (of a word: ending with some sound or syllable)
     prep. (with accusative) for (during the continuation of)
     prep. (with accusative) to, for (indicating purpose, goal or wish)
     prep. (with accusative) by (used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something)
     adv. (somewhat, informal) open
     adv. (colloquial) finished; gone (food)
     adv. (colloquial) up; awake; out of bed
     interj. carry on (continue or proceed as before)
     interj. have a go
Weiberfastnacht
     n. A holiday celebrated mostly in the Rhineland on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday. Originally a special day for women’s carnival, but now celebrated by both sexes as the beginning of the six-day peak
dürfen
     v. (auxiliary) to be allowed (to do something); to be permitted (to do something); may
     v. to be allowed or permitted to do something implied or previously stated; may
     v. (subjunctive ii, auxiliary) Expresses a prediction with mild doubt, that something is estimated or probable.
     v. (colloquial) to must, to have to
     v. (obsolete, transitive, with genitive) to need, to require
die
     art. feminine singular of der
     art. plural of der
     pron. feminine singular of der
     pron. plural of der
     pron.          (in a subordinate clause as a relative pronoun) that; which; who; whom; whose
     pron.          (as a demonstrative pronoun) this one; that one; these ones; those ones; she; her; it; they; them
     der
          art. the
          art. feminine singular of der
          art. genitive plural of der
          pron. who; that; which
          pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) whom, which, that
          pron. (attributive, stressed) that
          pron. (indicative) him, he
          pron. (differential) the one, him
          pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) that, (to) her
Mädchen
     n-n. girl
     n-n. maiden
küssen
     v. to kiss
     v. to make out
wen
     pron. interrogative accusative of wer: whom (direct object).
sie
     pron. she
     pron. it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine die)
     pron. he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is feminine die)
     pron. they; them
     es
          pron. Nominative and accusative neuter third-person singular personal pronoun
          pron. (Impersonal pronoun used to refer to statements, activities, the environment etc., or as a placeholder/dummy pronoun) — it
          art. (regional, colloquial) alt form-lite, das
wollen
     adj. (relational) wool; woolen, woollen
     v. to want; to wish; to desire; to demand
     v. (auxiliary) to want (to do something)
     v. (auxiliary) to intend, to mean




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