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Die Nacht war lang und frostig.

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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
Nacht
     n. night
     n. darkness
war
     v. first-person singular preterite of sein
     sein
          v. (copulative, with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to be
          v. (with a dative object and certain adjectives) to feel, (to experience a condition)
          v. (with a dative object and nach or danach, sometimes with zumute) to feel like, to be in the mood for
          v. (auxiliary) forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain intransitive verbs
          v. to exist; there to be; to be alive
          v. to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.)
          v. to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag
          det. his
          det. its (agreeing with a masculine or neuter noun)
          det.          (informal) Used to express an approximate number, often with so.
          det. one's
lang
     adj. long; lengthy (in space or time)
     adj. (of a person) tall
     adj. (with units of time, chiefly Jahre) many (indicating the length of the time in total)
     adv. (chiefly colloquial, but also found in formal style) Alternative form of lange
     adv. long, sprawled, stretched (physically)
     post. for (temporal)
     post. (chiefly colloquial, but also found in formal style) Alternative form of entlang
     v. singular imperative of langen
     langen
          v. (colloquial southern) to reach for something, to grab
          v. (colloquial southern) to pass, to hand something to someone
          v. (colloquial southern) to suffice, to be enough
          adj. form of lang
und
     conj. (co-ordinating) and
     conj. (colloquial) links two nouns, often a person and an activity, in rhetoric questions to express an opposition between them
     interj. so?, now?, and?
frostig
     adj. frosty




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