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Wie groß bist du?

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Analysis


wie
     adv. how
     conj. like
     conj. as
     conj. (colloquial nonstandard) than
     conj. (chiefly colloquial) when referring to the past
groß
     adj. big, large, large-scale
     adj. great, grand
     adj. (of a person) tall
     adj. (childish) pertaining to defecation
bist
     v. second-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
du
     pron. you (thou, singular familiar)




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