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Es tut mir leid

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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
tut
     v. third-person singular present of tun
     v. second-person plural present of tun
     v. plural imperative of tun
     tun
          v. To do (to perform or execute an action).
          v. (with dative) To do something (positive or negative) to someone.
          v. To make a difference; to be different.
          v. (somewhat informal, with “so” or “als ob”) To fake; to feign; to pretend.
          v. (chiefly colloquial) To put, to place, to add.
          v. (chiefly colloquial, with “es”) To work, to function.
          v. (chiefly colloquial, but acceptable in writing) Used with thepreceding infinitive of another verb to emphasise this verb
          v. (colloquial non-standard) (Used with thefollowing infinitive of another verb, often to emphasise the statement)
          v. (colloquial non-standard) (Used in the past subjunctive with the infinitive of another verb to form the conditional tense (instead of standard würde))
mir
     pron. personal dative of ich: me, to me:
     pron. (dialectal, or colloquial) Alternative form of wir, t=we
leid
     adj. (obsolete outside of fixed expressions) distressing, uncomfortable




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