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Er hat nicht ins Kino gehen können.

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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)
hat
     v. third-person singular present of haben
     haben
          v. (auxiliary) to have (forms the perfect and past perfect tenses)
          v. to have; to own (to possess, have ownership of; to possess a certain characteristic)
          v. to have; to hold (to contain within itself/oneself)
          v. to have, get (to obtain, acquire)
          v. to get (to receive)
          v. to have (to be scheduled to attend)
          v. to have (to be afflicted with, suffer from)
          v. to contain, be composed of, equal
          v. (impersonal, dialectal, with es) there be, there is, there are
          v. to make a fuss
          v. (colloquial with es and mit) to be occupied with, to like, to be into
          v. (colloquial with es and von or über) to talk about
nicht
     adv. not, non- (negates the meaning of a verb, adjective, or adverb)
     interj. (tag question, dated, or formal) right?; is it?; is it not?
ins
     contraction. (in)to the (accusative singular neuter)
     in
          prep. (with dative) in, inside, within, at (inside a building)
          prep. (with dative) in (pertaining to)
          prep. (with dative) in, at, by (at the end of or during a period of time)
          prep. (with accusative) into, to (going inside (of))
          adj. in, popular (in fashion)
     das
          art. singular of der: the
          pron. singular of der
          pron.          (relative) who, that, which
          pron.          (demonstrative) this, that, it
          pron.          (regional, northern Germany) it (subject of an impersonal verb)
     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
Kino
     n. cinema
gehen
     v. to go, to walk
     v. to leave
     v. to leave, to take off (aeroplane, train)
     v. (impersonal, intransitive) to be going; to be all right; indicates how the dative object fares
     v. (slightly, informal, intransitive, often, impersonal) to be possible
     v. (colloquial intransitive) to work, to function (of a machine, method or the like)
     v. (colloquial intransitive) to last, to go for, to go on, to be in progress
     v. to sit, to rise, to expand (of dough etc.)
     v. (colloquial intransitive) to be (on) (to pay)
     v. (regional, or dated, impersonal, intransitive) to approach; to be going (on some one) + auf (object) = time
     v. (with genitive, only in combination with Weg) to go one's way, to make one's way (of a path, destination), to go separate ways
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




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