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Es hängt an einem seidenen Faden.

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Es
     n. (music) E-flat
     n. (psychoanalysis) id
     pron. Nominative and accusative neuter third-person singular personal pronoun
     pron. (Impersonal pronoun used to refer to statements, activities, the environment etc., or as a placeholder/dummy pronoun) — it
     art. (regional, colloquial) alt form-lite, das
hängt
     v. third-person singular present of hängen
     v. second-person plural present of hängen
     v. plural imperative of hängen
     hängen
          v. to hang; to be suspended
          v. to be attached to; to be fond of; to be devoted to; to cling to
          v. to depend on
          v. to hang something; to suspend
          v. to hang someone; to execute by hanging
          v. to hang on to; to follow
     hangen
an
     prep. (local) on; upon; at; in; against
     prep. by; near; close to; next to
     prep. (temporal, with days or times of day) on; in; at
     prep. (temporal) a; per; only used with the word Tag, otherwise use in
     prep. on; onto
     prep. at; against
     prep. to; for
     adv. onward; on
     adj. (predicative) on
einem
     num. dative singular of ein
     art. dative singular of ein: a, an
     pron. dative singular of einer
seidenen
     adj. form of seiden
     seiden
          adj. (relational, attributive only) silk
          adj. (higher register) shining like silk
Faden
     n. yarn, thread
     n. (nautical) fathom
     n. (medicine) suture




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