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Im Winter sind die Tage kürzer.

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im
     contraction. contraction of in dem ; in the
Winter
     n-m. winter
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
die
     art. feminine singular of der
     art. plural of der
     pron. feminine singular of der
     pron. plural of der
     pron.          (in a subordinate clause as a relative pronoun) that; which; who; whom; whose
     pron.          (as a demonstrative pronoun) this one; that one; these ones; those ones; she; her; it; they; them
     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
Tage
     n. (informal) period, that time of the month (female menstruation)
     Tag
          n. day (24-hour period)
          n. day (period from midnight to the following midnight)
          n. (astronomy) day (rotational period of a planet, moon or any celestial body (especially Earth))
          n. day, daylight (period between sunrise and sunset when there is daylight)
          n. day, daylight, light (light from the Sun)
          n. (figurative) light (open view; a visible state or condition)
          n. day (part of a day which one spends at work, school, etc.)
          n. (figurative) day (specified time or period, considered with reference to the prominence or success (in life or in an an argument or conflict) of a person or thing)
          n. (dated, now found chiefly in compounds such as Bundestag, Reichstag, Landtag, Sudetendeutscher Tag or Tag der Oberschlesier) convention, congress (formal assembly)
          n. see Tage for plural-only senses
          interj. (colloquial) hello; (good) day
die Tage
     adv. (idiomatic, chiefly colloquial)
     adv. (prospective) in the coming days, in a few days
     adv. (retrospective) in the past days, a few days ago
kürzer
     adj. comparative of kurz
     kurz
          adj. short, brief
          adj. concise
          adv. briefly, in short




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