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Es tut mir leid, ich hasse das Essen.

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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
ich
     pron. I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)
hasse
     v. first-person singular present of hassen
     v. first-person singular subjunctive of hassen
     v. third-person singular subjunctive of hassen
     v. singular imperative of hassen
     hassen
          v. to hate
          v. (ethology, intransitive) to mob
das
     art. singular of der: the
     pron. singular of der
     pron.          (relative) who, that, which
     pron.          (demonstrative) this, that, it
     pron.          (regional, northern Germany) it (subject of an impersonal verb)
     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
Essen
     n-n. (gerund of essen); eating
     n-n. meal
     n-n. food
     n-n. groceries
     n. plural of Esse
     Esse
          n-f. (dialectal) chimney-hood over a stove
          n. existence




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