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Sentence

Der hat es getan!

Translation

It was him who did it!



Analysis


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
hat
     v. third-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
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
getan
     Participle. past participle of tun
     tun
          v. To do (to perform or execute an action).
          v. (with dative) To do something (positive or negative) to someone.
          v. To make a difference; to be different.
          v. (somewhat informal, with “so” or “als ob”) To fake; to feign; to pretend.
          v. (chiefly colloquial) To put, to place, to add.
          v. (chiefly colloquial, with “es”) To work, to function.
          v. (chiefly colloquial, but acceptable in writing) Used with thepreceding infinitive of another verb to emphasise this verb
          v. (colloquial non-standard) (Used with thefollowing infinitive of another verb, often to emphasise the statement)
          v. (colloquial non-standard) (Used in the past subjunctive with the infinitive of another verb to form the conditional tense (instead of standard würde))




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