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Es kann ja nicht immer so bleiben.

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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
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
ja
     adv. yes; yea, yeah, aye
     adv. (intensifier) obviously; certainly; of course; really; just; as you know; as is generally known (indicates and emphasises that one is expressing a known fact)
     interj. yes
nicht
     adv. not, non- (negates the meaning of a verb, adjective, or adverb)
     interj. (tag question, dated, or formal) right?; is it?; is it not?
immer
     adv. always
     adv.          at all times without exception
     adv.          very often; all the time; constantly
     adv.          every time; whenever some precondition is given
     adv. (with) to a greater degree over time, more and more
     adv. (colloquial unstressed) used to emphasize another adverb of time, which itself is stressed
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)
bleiben
     v. (copulative, with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to remain (to continue to be)
     v. to keep (on); to continue (see usage notes below)
     v. to stay; to remain in a place
     v. to be; to be stuck; implying tardiness
     v. to be left for someone
     v. to stick with; to stay with




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