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Er ist ein gediegener Charakter, ich kenne wenige, auf die man sich so verlassen kann.

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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)
ist
     v. third-person singular present 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
ein
     art. a, an
     adv. (now chiefly in compounds) indicating (concrete or abstract/metaphorical) motion into something
     adj. (predicative) on
gediegener
     adj. comparative of gediegen
     adj. form of gediegen
     gediegen
          adj. (of a metal) pure, unadulterated, sterling, solid, native
          adj. solid, high-quality, well-made
          adj. solid, reliable, good
          adj. (Northern Germany, colloquial) odd, strange, peculiar, weird
Charakter
     n. character; the totality of someone's personal qualities
     n. character, characteristic feature or nature of a thing, place or people
     n. (becoming dated) character, symbol, written glyph
     n. (dated, possibly archaic) title, rank
     n. a character; role/figure in a theatrical play, video game etc., which has a noticeable character (set of personal qualities)
ich
     pron. I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)
kenne
     v. first-person singular present of kennen
     v. first-person singular subjunctive of kennen
     v. third-person singular subjunctive of kennen
     v. singular imperative of kennen
     kennen
          v. to know; to be acquainted with; to be familiar with
wenige
     adj. form of wenig
auf
     prep. (with dative) on, upon (positioned at the top of)
     prep. (with accusative) on, onto, up (moving to the top of)
     prep. (with accusative) on (indicating responsibility)
     prep. (with dative) in, at; used with certain nouns instead of bei or in
     prep. (with accusative) to; used with certain nouns instead of zu or in
     prep. (with a language name) in (see usage note below)
     prep. (linguistics) in (of a word: ending with some sound or syllable)
     prep. (with accusative) for (during the continuation of)
     prep. (with accusative) to, for (indicating purpose, goal or wish)
     prep. (with accusative) by (used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something)
     adv. (somewhat, informal) open
     adv. (colloquial) finished; gone (food)
     adv. (colloquial) up; awake; out of bed
     interj. carry on (continue or proceed as before)
     interj. have a go
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
man
     pron. one, you (indefinite pronoun; construed as a third-person singular)
     pron. they, people (people in general)
     pron. someone, somebody (some unspecified person)
     pron. they (some unspecified group of people)
     adv. (colloquial regional northern Germany) just; only
sich
     pron. Reflexive pronoun of the third person singular: herself, himself, itself, oneself (direct or indirect object).
     pron. Reflexive pronoun of the third person plural: themselves (direct or indirect object).
so
     adv. so, such, that
     adv. as (followed by an adjective or adverb plus wie in a statement of equality)
     adv. thus, like this/that, in this/that way, in this/that manner
     adv. then (in that case)
     adv. (colloquial) expletive; sometimes intensifying, sometimes with no noticeable meaning
     conj. (coordinating) thus, so, pursuant to the aforementioned premises
     conj. (subordinating, chiefly archaic, sometimes legal and regional) an, if
     part. (colloquial) (quotative particle, somewhat similar to be like but also combinable with other verbs)
     pron. (obsolete, relative) that, which, who
     interj. (tlb, colloquial) (a discourse marker in the beginning of a sentence indicating a topic having been dealt with and another being tackled)
verlassen
     v. to leave, to abandon; to depart, to forsake
     v.          to leave, to desert, to dump (e.g. a partner in a romantic relationship)
     v.          (figuratively) to pass away; to cease; to die (with direct object uns)
     v.          (rare) to exit or close a computer program or app
     v. to trust; to rely on
     Participle. past participle of verlassen
     adj. lonely, forsaken
     adj. (not comparable) abandoned, deserted
     adv. forlornly
kann
     v. first-person singular present of können
     v. third-person singular present of können
     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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