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Er fasst mir an die Hand.

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Er
     n. a person or animal of male gender, a male
     pron. (personal) he.
     pron. (personal) it (when the grammatical gender of the object/article/thing/animal etc., being referred to, is masculine (der)).
     pron. (personal) she (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a female person, is masculine (der)).
     pron. (personal, archaic) Alternative spelling of Er, tr=you (polite)
fasst
     v. second-person singular present of fassen
     v. third-person singular present of fassen
     v. second-person plural present of fassen
     v. plural imperative of fassen
     fassen
          v. to gird, to surround, to confine into a form
          v. to grasp, to catch
          v. to seize, to capture
          v. to compose oneself (to calm, to free from agitation)
          v. to accept, to believe (a misfortune)
mir
     pron. personal dative of ich: me, to me:
     pron. (dialectal, or colloquial) Alternative form of wir, t=we
an
     prep. (local) on; upon; at; in; against
     prep. by; near; close to; next to
     prep. (temporal, with days or times of day) on; in; at
     prep. (temporal) a; per; only used with the word Tag, otherwise use in
     prep. on; onto
     prep. at; against
     prep. to; for
     adv. onward; on
     adj. (predicative) on
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
Hand
     n. (football, informal) short for, Handspiel




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