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Ich habe ihn gesehen, wie ich in Köln war.

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Ich
     n. (psychoanalysis) ego
     n. self, me, him, etc.
     pron. I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)
habe
     v. first-person singular present of haben
     v. first-person singular subjunctive of haben
     v. third-person singular subjunctive of haben
     v. singular imperative of haben
     haben
          v. (auxiliary) to have (forms the perfect and past perfect tenses)
          v. to have; to own (to possess, have ownership of; to possess a certain characteristic)
          v. to have; to hold (to contain within itself/oneself)
          v. to have, get (to obtain, acquire)
          v. to get (to receive)
          v. to have (to be scheduled to attend)
          v. to have (to be afflicted with, suffer from)
          v. to contain, be composed of, equal
          v. (impersonal, dialectal, with es) there be, there is, there are
          v. to make a fuss
          v. (colloquial with es and mit) to be occupied with, to like, to be into
          v. (colloquial with es and von or über) to talk about
ihn
     pron. personal accusative of er; him, it (masculine, direct object).
     pron. personal dative of sie; them (indirect object).
gesehen
     Participle. past participle of sehen
     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
wie
     adv. how
     conj. like
     conj. as
     conj. (colloquial nonstandard) than
     conj. (chiefly colloquial) when referring to the past
ich
     pron. I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)
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)
Köln
war
     v. first-person singular preterite 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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