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Diese Dinge sind dumm

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diese
     pron. feminine nominative singular of dieser; "this"
     pron. feminine accusative singular of dieser; "this"
     pron. nominative plural of dieser; "these"
     pron. accusative plural of dieser; "these"
     dieser
          pron. this one, this
          pron. that one, that
Dinge
     n. plural of Ding
     Ding
          n. thing
          n. (mildly disrespectful) thing; girl; boy (young person)
          n. (dated) Thing (historic Germanic council)
sind
     v. first-person plural present of sein
     v. third-person plural present of sein
     v. second-person plural present 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
dumm
     adj. dumb, stupid




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