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Wenn jemand kommt und sagt: 'Hallo, ich bin Herr XYZ', dann schreibst Du sofort den Namen auf.

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Wenn
     n. (informal) if
     conj. when
     conj. if (on the condition that)
jemand
     pron. (indefinite) someone, somebody
kommt
     v. third-person singular of kommen
     v. second-person plural of kommen
     v. plural imperative of kommen
     kommen
          v. to come; to arrive
          v. to come to; to come over (go somewhere so as to join someone else)
          v. to get; to make it (go somewhere in a way that implies an obstacle or difficulty to be overcome)
          v. to go to; to be put in (go somewhere in a way that is predetermined or prearranged)
          v. to come on (Used to encourage someone to do something.)
          v. to occur; to happen; to come to be
          v. (impersonal) to be played (of a song or film)
          v. to be due to; to be the result of
          v. to come from (to have a social or geographic background) (+preo, aus, dative)
          v. to orgasm; to cum
          v. to be statistically equivalent to; to be there for (+preo, auf, accusative)
          v. to obtain (a solution or result) (+preo, auf, accusative)
          v. to get an idea; to think of; to remember; to imagine (+preo, auf, accusative)
          v. to lose; to forfeit; not to get (+preo, um)
          v. to touch inadvertently
          v. to manage to reach (something high up etc.) (+preo, an, accusative)
          v. (colloquial copulative with gut or in Ordnung) to turn out (well)
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?
sagt
     v. third-person singular present of sagen
     v. second-person plural present of sagen
     v. plural imperative of sagen
     sagen
          v. to say (to pronounce; communicate verbally)
          v. to tell (to inform (someone) verbally)
          v. to mean (to convey or signify)
          v. to speak up (+obj, etwas)
'Hallo
ich
     pron. I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)
bin
     v. first-person singular present 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
Herr
     n. man, gentleman (polite term)
     n. sir (title of respect)
     n. Mr., mister, sir
     n. gentleman
     n. master, lord ((generally denotes that somebody has control over something, either in a generic or in a regal sense))
     n. (historical) the lowest title of German nobility
     n. Lord, God
XYZ'
dann
     adv. then, after that
     adv. then, in that case
schreibst ... auf
     v. second-person singular present of aufschreiben
     aufschreiben
          v. to write down, mark down, to make a note (of something)
          v. to mark out
          v. (medical) to prescribe (medicine)
Du
     pron. alternative case form of du you (singular) (especially when used as a direct address in letters)
     n. (literally) the thou, the you (singular)
sofort
     adv. immediately, at once
den
     art. masculine accusative singular of der
     art. dative plural of der
     pron. that; whom; masculine accusative singular of der
Namen
     n. Alternative form of Name
     n. singular of Name
     n. plural of Name
     Proper noun. Namur, a city in southern Belgium.
     Proper noun. Namur, a former countship in present Belgium, named after its above capital city.
     Proper noun. Namur, a province of Belgium, named after its above capital city.
     Name
          n. name (forename, Christian name, given name)
          n. name (surname, family name)
          n. name (full name)
          n. (grammar, in compounds) noun, examples include Eigenname (proper noun), Sammelname (collective noun) and Gattungsname (appellative or common noun). Note: Compounds which aren't hy




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