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Nimm dich in Acht!

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nimm
     v. singular imperative of nehmen
     v. colloquial of
     nehmen
          v. to take (something into one's possession or on one's body)
          v. (ditransitive) to take from
          v. to hold (in one's hands), to grasp
          v. to take, to consider (a statement, a situation, an idea, etc, in a certain way, for example seriously, badly, personally)
          v. to capture, to arrest
          v. to ingest (e.g. a pill)
          v. to move into, to sit at (one's assigned position)
          v. to use (time, effort, etc. for a specific purpose)
          v. To begin or cause the action implied by a noun to take place, possibly making the sentence more passive or indirect.
          v. to cause oneself to be (in some state); to become; to take oneself (to some state)
          v. to seize, to capture
          v. to receive, to accept
          v. to foul
dich
     pron. personal accusative of du; you, thee direct object.
     pron. accusative of du; yourself, thee direct object.
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)
Acht
     n-f. the natural number eight
     n-f. the numeral sign 8
     n-f. a playing card with the value eight
     n-f. a figure eight shape; a bicycle wheel bent out of shape
     n. (in idioms and derivatives, otherwise archaic) attention; regard; heed
     n. (historical) outlawry; banishment (declaration that someone is no longer protected by law)
     n. (poetic) sworn enmity; declaration of vendetta
     n-f. (obsolete, found in western German toponyms) land belonging to a mansion or monastery




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