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Er hat seinem Gegner eine schwere Platzwunde über dem Auge beigebracht.

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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
seinem
     det. (possessive) dative singular of sein
Gegner
     n-m. adversary, opponent, enemy
eine
     num. feminine singular of ein
     art. feminine singular of ein: a, an
     pron. feminine singular of einer
     pron. masculine nominative singular of einer
     pron. singular of einer
schwere
     adj. form of schwer
     schwer
          adj. heavy, weighty
          adj. difficult, hard
          adj. serious
          adj. (of food) indigestible
Platzwunde
     n-f. laceration (irregular open wound)
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
dem
     art. dative singular of der: the
     pron. dative singular of der: to whom, to which
Auge
     eye
beigebracht
     Participle. past participle of beibringen
     beibringen
          v. (ditransitive) to teach
          v. (ditransitive) to break (news, information) carefully to
          v. (ditransitive) to inflict on, inflict with
          v. to bring, to provide as evidence




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