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Freunde sind wie Sterne in der Nacht; auch wenn sie manchmal nicht zu sehen sind, weißt du trotzdem, dass sie da sind!

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Freunde
     n. plural of Freund
     n. friends
     Freund
          n. friend
          n. boyfriend
          n. (obsolete) blood relative (in the sense of a person that is or should be one’s friend by nature)
sind
     v. first-person plural present of sein
     v. third-person plural present of sein
     v. second-person plural present 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
wie
     adv. how
     conj. like
     conj. as
     conj. (colloquial nonstandard) than
     conj. (chiefly colloquial) when referring to the past
Sterne
     n. plural of Stern
     Stern
          n. a star; a small luminous dot that can be seen on the night sky
          n. (astronomy) a star; the actual celestial body
          n. (geometry, heraldiccharge) a star, a mullet, or anything that resembles such an object
          n. a star; symbol used as a rating, e.g. for hotels, movies, etc.
          n. (printing, often Sternchen) an asterisk (*)
          n. (figuratively, chiefly Sternchen) a star, starlet, celebrity, something or somebody popular
          n. A term of endearment.
          n. (meteorology) a stellar crystal, a snow crystal possessing the shape of a star
in
     prep. (with dative) in, inside, within, at (inside a building)
     prep. (with dative) in (pertaining to)
     prep. (with dative) in, at, by (at the end of or during a period of time)
     prep. (with accusative) into, to (going inside (of))
     adj. in, popular (in fashion)
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
Nacht
     n. night
     n. darkness
auch
     adv. also; too; as well (in addition to whatever or whoever has previously been listed)
     adv. Used for emphasis.
     adv.          (To confirm a preceding statement by someone else): really, actually, indeed, in fact
     adv.          (To ask for confirmation of something one considers necessary.)
     adv.          (To imply that something is unreasonable.)
     adv. even ((implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality))
     adv. ever (as in whatever, whenever, however, etc.)
     interj. (in answering a yes-no question, used to express that the thing asked about covers part of the truth but not all of it); “yes, and more”
wenn
     conj. when
     conj. if (on the condition that)
sie
     pron. she
     pron. it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine die)
     pron. he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is feminine die)
     pron. they; them
     es
          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
manchmal
     adv. sometimes
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?
zu
     prep. to, towards (indicates directionality)
     prep. with respect to; regarding
     prep. along with; with (accompanying (the main thing in question))
     prep. at, on (indicates location)
     prep. at (indicates time)
     prep. by, in, on, at (indicates mode (of transportation, speech, etc.))
     prep. (with a verb) for; (with a noun) as, by way of (for the purpose of)
     prep. for (in honor of, or directed towards the celebration or event of)
     prep. into (indicates transition into another form or substance)
     prep. as, for, to be (to take on the role of)
     prep. to (used to indicate ratios)
     prep. at (denotes a price or rate)
     part. (with infinitives of verbs) to
     adv. (with adjectives and adverbs) too (excessively)
     adv. (by extension, slang) (An intensifier.)
     adv. towards; at
     adv. (somewhat, informal) shut; closed; locked
     adv. ahead, on (along, forwards (continuing an action))
     adj. (somewhat, informal) shut, closed (made inaccessible or impassable; not open)
     adj. closed (not operating or conducting trade)
     adj. done up (fastened)
     adj. (slang) hammered; very drunk
sehen
     v. to see; to have sight
     v. to see (something); to perceive by vision
     v. to realize; to notice; to see; to find out
     v. to meet (somebody); to meet up; to see; (butnot in the sense of “pay a visit to”, nor as a euphemism for having a romantic or sexual relation)
     v. to look at; to watch; (the construction with nach often implies a turning of the head; other prepositions can be used depending on the context)
     v. to check on; to look after; to see to (+preo, nach)
     v. to decide spontaneously and/or by personal preference; to wait and see
sind
     v. first-person plural present of sein
     v. third-person plural present of sein
     v. second-person plural present 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
weißt
     v. second-person singular present of wissen
     v. second-person singular present of weißen
     v. third-person singular present of weißen
     wissen
          v. to know; to be aware of (a fact)
          v. to remember (with noch)
du
     pron. you (thou, singular familiar)
trotzdem
     adv. anyhow, nevertheless
     conj. (less frequent, introduces a subordinate clause) although
dass
     conj. (subordinating) that
     conj. (subordinating, chiefly colloquial) so that
sie
     pron. she
     pron. it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine die)
     pron. he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is feminine die)
     pron. they; them
     es
          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
da
     adv. (local) there; here
     adv. (temporal) then; so; at that moment
     adv. (colloquial) (replaces any takes a reflexive pronoun adverb when the context is clear)
     conj. since; as; because; given that
     conj. (literary, dated) when
sind
     v. first-person plural present of sein
     v. third-person plural present of sein
     v. second-person plural present 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




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