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Er ist ein heller Kopf.

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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
heller
     adj. form of hell
     adj. comparative of hell
     adj. form of helle
     adj. comparative of helle
     helle
          adj. (regional, Northern German, Berlin) clever, smart, bright
Kopf
     n. (anatomy) head
     n. crown, top
     n. heading, title
     n. person; individual; fellow (referring to one's intellect or mentality)
     n. (linguistics) head
     n. (numismatics) heads (side of a coin)




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