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Wer würde schon Beige als seine Lieblingsfarbe bezeichnen?

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wer
     pron. (interrogative) who (what person or people)
     pron. (interrogative, colloquial) what, which (one) (see usage notes)
     pron. (relative) whoever, he who, someone who, the person who, anyone who (whatever person or persons)
     pron. (indefinite, colloquial) somebody, someone; anybody, anyone (an unspecified person)
würde
     v. first-person singular subjunctive of werden
     v. third-person singular subjunctive 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
schon
     adv. already (happening rather early, continuing rather long)
     adv. previously, before (at some time in the past; butnot: before a certain event)
     adv. expresses that an action has been completed; already (i, but more frequent); yet i, in questions
     adv. (modal particle) expresses a weighing of arguments, contrast between two statements, partial agreement, concession; admittedly; sure(ly); definitely; indeed
     adv. really (as an intensifier)
     v. singular imperative of schonen
     v. colloquial of
     schonen
          v. to spare (not harm)
          v. to rest, to avoid overexertion
Beige
     n-f. (Southern Germany, Switzerland) stack, pile
     n. (uninflected) beige (the color)
     n. inflected beige thing
als
     conj. (subordinating, referring to time of occurrence) at (approximately) the same moment; when; while; as
     conj. (used with a comparison or as an exception) than
     conj. as; like; in the function of; in the form of
     conj. as if
     conj. (after negative pronoun) but, other than
seine
     pron. feminine singular of seiner
     pron. plural of seiner
     det. feminine singular of sein
     det. plural 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
Lieblingsfarbe
     n-f. favorite color
bezeichnen
     v. to name (give a name to), to call, to designate, to denote
     v. to identify with, to indicate, to describe as
     v. to describe oneself, to identify (als as)




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