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Mit den Sachen anderer Leute muss man vorsichtig sein.

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mit
     prep. with (in the company of; alongside)
     prep. with, by (using as an instrument; by means of)
     prep. with (as an accessory to)
     prep. with (having)
     prep. at (with the age of)
     prep. with, including, with ... included
     adv. among; denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group
     adv. also, too (in addition; besides; as well)
     adv. (somewhat, informal) with (something), with it
den
     art. masculine accusative singular of der
     art. dative plural of der
     pron. that; whom; masculine accusative singular of der
Sachen
     n. plural of Sache
     Sache
          n-f. matter, affair, case, question, issue
          n-f. thing, object
          n-f. (law) thing: corporeal object
          n-f. cause, action
          n-f. subject, matter, business
          n-f. (chiefly in colloquial) kilometers per hour
anderer
     adj. other, different
Leute
     n. people (several individual persons, a group of people in general, esp. of one kind or another), folk (folks), peeps (slang), guys (boys and/or girls)
     n. plural of Leut
muss
     v. first-person singular present of müssen
     v. third-person singular present of müssen
     müssen
          v. (auxiliary) to have to (do something); must; to be obliged (to do something); to need (to do something).
          v. to have to do something implied; must; to be obliged.
          v. (colloquial euphemism) to need to go to the bathroom.
man
     pron. one, you (indefinite pronoun; construed as a third-person singular)
     pron. they, people (people in general)
     pron. someone, somebody (some unspecified person)
     pron. they (some unspecified group of people)
     adv. (colloquial regional northern Germany) just; only
vorsichtig
     adj. deliberate (not hasty or sudden); careful, cautious, wary, circumspect
     adv. carefully
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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