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Er war sehr aufgeregt, als er die Nachrichten hörte.

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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)
war
     v. first-person singular preterite 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
sehr
     adv. very
     adv. a lot, much
aufgeregt
     Participle. past participle of aufregen
     adj. excited
     adj. angry
     aufregen
          v. to excite
          v. to annoy, to upset
als
     conj. (subordinating, referring to time of occurrence) at (approximately) the same moment; when; while; as
     conj. (used with a comparison or as an exception) than
     conj. as; like; in the function of; in the form of
     conj. as if
     conj. (after negative pronoun) but, other than
er
     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)
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
Nachrichten
     n. news
     n. plural of Nachricht
     Nachricht
          n-f. news, piece of news, notification
          n-f. (telecommunication) message (information which is sent from a source to a receiver)
          n-f. (media, in the plural) news (kind of broadcast)
hörte
     v. first-person singular preterite of hören
     v. third-person singular preterite of hören
     v. first-person singular subjunctive of hören
     v. third-person singular subjunctive of hören
     hören
          v. to hear (to perceive sounds (or a sound) through the ear)
          v. to listen to, pay attention to (to give (someone) one's attention)
          v. to attend, to go to, to sit in on
          v. to get, to receive
          v. to listen (to pay attention to a sound or speech; to accept advice or obey instruction)
          v. to hear (to receive information; to come to learn)
          v. to hear (to be contacted (by))




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