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Eichen können über tausend Jahre alt werden.

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Eichen
     n. plural of Eiche
     n. diminutive of Ei: little egg
     v. to calibrate, to gauge
     adj. (relational) oak; made of oak
     Eiche
          n-f. An oak tree, an oak, Quercus; the common tree
          n-f. oak; the wood of the tree
können
     v. to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can.
     v.          (auxiliary)
     v.          to be able to do something implied; can.
     v.          to know how to do (something); to know; to understand; to be able to do (something); to be capable of; can do (something), to have a specific skill. (w
     v.          to be possible, to make sense
     v.          (auxiliary) to be allowed (to do something); to be permitted (to do something); may.
     v.          (auxiliary) to be in the legal situation of being able to realize a legal effect even if it be legally disallowed
über
     prep. (accusative, or dative) above, over (spatially)
     prep. about, concerning, over, at (in reference to)
     prep. (accusative) via, through, by way of
     prep. (accusative) across
     prep. (accusative) during, for, over a time period
     prep. (accusative) about
     prep. around, among
     prep. over, more than, above (a quantity)
     prep. beyond
     prep. at (when 'over' or 'about' could roughly be substituted)
     adj. (tlb, colloquial) left over, remaining, (replaces übrig in all its predicative instances, including those lexicalized as verb prefixoids.)
     adv. over (in certain select phrases)
     post. (following accusative) throughout
tausend
     num. (cardinal) thousand
Jahre
     en:years
     n. plural of Jahr "years"
     Jahr
          n. year (solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun)
          n. year (time it takes for any astronomical object to directly orbit its star)
          n. year (period between set dates that mark a year)
          n. year (level or grade in school or college)
alt
     adj. old
     adj. ancient
     adj. elderly (inflected in the comparative)
werden
     v. (auxiliary) will; to be going (to do something); forms the future tense
     v. (auxiliary) would; forms the subjunctive tense of most verbs
     v. (auxiliary) to be done; forms the passive voice
     v. (copulative, past participle geworden) to become; to get; to grow; to turn
     v. (with a dative object and certain adjectives) to begin or come to feel or experience (a condition)
     v. (copulative, colloquial) to be, to happen, to occur (in the future)
     v. (colloquial) to be going to work




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