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Meine Mutter ist deutscher Herkunft, aber mein Vater ist Österreicher.

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meine
     pron. feminine singular of meiner
     pron. plural of meiner
     det. feminine singular of mein
     det. plural of mein
     v. first-person singular present of meinen
     v. first-person singular present subjunctive of meinen
     v. third-person singular present subjunctive of meinen
     v. singular imperative of meinen
     mein
          det. (possessive) my
     meinen
          v. to opine, to think; to believe; to suppose
          v. to say; to utter; (not used with nouns; not used in the imperative and rarely in the infinitive)
          v. to mean; to be convinced or sincere about something
          v. to mean; to have in mind; to convey
          v. (now rare) to mean; to signify
          det. (possessive) masculine accusative singular of mein
          det. (possessive) dative plural of mein
Mutter
     n. mother
     Proper noun. Mother; Mum; Mom: one's mother
     n-f. nut (for a bolt)
ist
     v. third-person singular 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
deutscher
     adj. comparative of deutsch
     adj. form of deutsch
Herkunft
     n. origin, source
     n. descent (lineage or hereditary derivation)
     n. etymology (origin of a word)
aber
     conj. but; however; though
     adv. (obsolete, except in compounds) again
     adv. (qualifier) rather; quite; unusually; used with adjectives to express a surprising degree, whether this surprise be real or for effect
     adv. nonetheless, nevertheless
mein
     det. (possessive) my
Vater
     n. father
ist
     v. third-person singular 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
Österreicher
     n-m. Austrian




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