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Und Gott sprach: »Es werde Licht!« Und es ward Licht.

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Analysis


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?
Gott
     n. god
     Proper noun. God
sprach
     v. first-person singular preterite of sprechen
     v. third-person singular preterite of sprechen
     sprechen
          v. to speak (some language, the truth, etc.)
          v. to speak, to talk, to give a speech
          v. to say, to speak (a word, phrase, sentence, prayer, etc.)
          v. to have a pronunciation; to be pronounced (some way)
          v. to pronounce (a judgment, a verdict, etc.)
          v. to say (something)
          v. (Swiss, transitive, officialese) to grant, approve (a loan, funding, etc.)
»Es
werde
     v. first-person singular present of werden
     v. first-person singular subjunctive of werden
     v. third-person singular subjunctive of werden
     v. singular imperative 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
Licht
     n. light
     n. (colloquial) candle
     n. (hunting) eye of game, especially ground game
«
Und
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
ward
Licht
     n. light
     n. (colloquial) candle
     n. (hunting) eye of game, especially ground game




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