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Ein Butterbrot war mein einziges Mittagessen.

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ein
     art. a, an
     adv. (now chiefly in compounds) indicating (concrete or abstract/metaphorical) motion into something
     adj. (predicative) on
Butterbrot
     n. A slice of bread topped with butter and often other toppings; an open sandwich
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
mein
     det. (possessive) my
einziges
     adj. form of einzig
     einzig
          adj. only, sole
          adj. unique
          adv. only
Mittagessen
     n-n. lunch




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