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Sein Arbeitszeug wurde gestern gestohlen.

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Sein
     n. existence, being, essence (the state and the conditions of being, existing, occurring)
     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
Arbeitszeug
     n. work clothes
     n. tools
wurde
     v. first-person singular preterite of werden
     v. third-person singular preterite of werden
     werden
          v. (auxiliary) will; to be going (to do something); forms the future tense
          v. (auxiliary) would; forms the subjunctive tense of most verbs
          v. (auxiliary) to be done; forms the passive voice
          v. (copulative, past participle geworden) to become; to get; to grow; to turn
          v. (with a dative object and certain adjectives) to begin or come to feel or experience (a condition)
          v. (copulative, colloquial) to be, to happen, to occur (in the future)
          v. (colloquial) to be going to work
gestern
     adv. yesterday
gestohlen
     Participle. past participle of stehlen
     stehlen
          v. to steal
          v. to skulk, to move secretly




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