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Sentence

Sie wartete mit großer Geduld, bis sie endlich an der Reihe war.

Translation

She waited very patiently, until finally it was her turn.



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
wartete
     v. first-person singular preterite of warten
     v. third-person singular preterite of warten
     v. first-person singular subjunctive of warten
     v. third-person singular subjunctive of warten
     warten
          v. to wait (for) (+preo, auf, accusative)
          v. to maintain (chiefly a machine, e.g. a car or heating)
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
großer
     adj. form of groß
Geduld
     n. patience
bis
     conj. (subordinating, temporal) until
     conj. (coordinating) to
     prep. (temporal) until, to, (US) through
     prep. (temporal) by
     prep. (local) to; all the way to
sie
     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
endlich
     adj. finite, limited
     adv. eventually, at last, finally, endly
an
     prep. (local) on; upon; at; in; against
     prep. by; near; close to; next to
     prep. (temporal, with days or times of day) on; in; at
     prep. (temporal) a; per; only used with the word Tag, otherwise use in
     prep. on; onto
     prep. at; against
     prep. to; for
     adv. onward; on
     adj. (predicative) on
der
     art. the
     art. feminine singular of der
     art. genitive plural of der
     pron. who; that; which
     pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) whom, which, that
     pron. (attributive, stressed) that
     pron. (indicative) him, he
     pron. (differential) the one, him
     pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) that, (to) her
Reihe
     n-f. row
     n-f. rank, succession, series, sequence, range
     n-f. (maths) series
     n-f. (chess) rank
war
     v. first-person singular preterite of sein
     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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