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Wie kommt es, dass...?

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wie
     adv. how
     conj. like
     conj. as
     conj. (colloquial nonstandard) than
     conj. (chiefly colloquial) when referring to the past
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)
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
dass
     conj. (subordinating) that
     conj. (subordinating, chiefly colloquial) so that




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