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Sentence

Sie haben immer vor 9 Uhr abends gegessen.

Translation

They always ate before 9 o'clock in the evening.



Analysis


Sie
     pron. you (polite; singular and plural)
     pron. she
     pron. it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine die)
     pron. he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is feminine die)
     pron. they; them
     es
          pron. Nominative and accusative neuter third-person singular personal pronoun
          pron. (Impersonal pronoun used to refer to statements, activities, the environment etc., or as a placeholder/dummy pronoun) — it
          art. (regional, colloquial) alt form-lite, das
haben
     v. (auxiliary) to have (forms the perfect and past perfect tenses)
     v. to have; to own (to possess, have ownership of; to possess a certain characteristic)
     v. to have; to hold (to contain within itself/oneself)
     v. to have, get (to obtain, acquire)
     v. to get (to receive)
     v. to have (to be scheduled to attend)
     v. to have (to be afflicted with, suffer from)
     v. to contain, be composed of, equal
     v. (impersonal, dialectal, with es) there be, there is, there are
     v. to make a fuss
     v. (colloquial with es and mit) to be occupied with, to like, to be into
     v. (colloquial with es and von or über) to talk about
immer
     adv. always
     adv.          at all times without exception
     adv.          very often; all the time; constantly
     adv.          every time; whenever some precondition is given
     adv. (with) to a greater degree over time, more and more
     adv. (colloquial unstressed) used to emphasize another adverb of time, which itself is stressed
vor
     prep. in front of, ahead of (relative location in space)
     prep. before, prior to, ahead of (relative location in time)
     prep. ago (location in the past relative to the present)
     prep. from, against (a threat or negative outcome)
     prep. (what) with, (out) of (stating cause)
9
Uhr
     n-f. (invariable) hours, o'clock (indicates the time within a twelve- or twenty-four-hour period)
     n-f. clock, watch (instrument used to measure or keep track of time)
     n-f. (in compounds) meter; gauge (a kind of measuring device, typically for water and gas consumption)
     n-f. (informal) clockwise direction
abends
     adv. in the evening, at night, see Abend;
     adv. p.m., indicating that a time is in the evening or early night. a.m./p.m. have no direct equivalents in German; the appropriate time of day is used instead.
gegessen
     Participle. past participle of essen
     essen
          v. to eat
          v. to eat; to dine




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