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Sentence

Sein Auskommen reichte vorne und hinten nicht.

Translation

His livelihood was sufficient not at all.



Analysis


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
Auskommen
     n. livelihood
reichte
     v. first-person singular preterite of reichen
     v. third-person singular preterite of reichen
     v. first-person singular subjunctive of reichen
     v. third-person singular subjunctive of reichen
vorne
     adv. at the front
     adv. in front
     adv. ahead
und
     conj. (co-ordinating) and
     conj. (colloquial) links two nouns, often a person and an activity, in rhetoric questions to express an opposition between them
     interj. so?, now?, and?
hinten
     adv. behind; in the back
     adv. (chiefly colloquial) over (there); yonder (unspecified locative for something at some distance)
nicht
     adv. not, non- (negates the meaning of a verb, adjective, or adverb)
     interj. (tag question, dated, or formal) right?; is it?; is it not?




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