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Sentence

Wir gehen nach links.

Translation

We're going to the left.



Analysis


wir
     pron. we
gehen
     v. to go, to walk
     v. to leave
     v. to leave, to take off (aeroplane, train)
     v. (impersonal, intransitive) to be going; to be all right; indicates how the dative object fares
     v. (slightly, informal, intransitive, often, impersonal) to be possible
     v. (colloquial intransitive) to work, to function (of a machine, method or the like)
     v. (colloquial intransitive) to last, to go for, to go on, to be in progress
     v. to sit, to rise, to expand (of dough etc.)
     v. (colloquial intransitive) to be (on) (to pay)
     v. (regional, or dated, impersonal, intransitive) to approach; to be going (on some one) + auf (object) = time
     v. (with genitive, only in combination with Weg) to go one's way, to make one's way (of a path, destination), to go separate ways
nach
     prep. after, past (later in time)
     prep. after, behind (in sequence)
     prep. to, towards (with geographical names; see usage notes below)
     prep. according to; guided by
     prep. by the authority of; following
     prep. (with verbs of sensual perception) like (see usage notes below)
     prep. for (qual, indicating desire for an object)
     post. according to
     adv. (in compound verbs) after, behind, later, next to
gehen nach
     v. first-person plural present of nachgehen
     v. third-person plural present of nachgehen
     v. first-person plural subjunctive of nachgehen
     v. third-person plural subjunctive of nachgehen
links
     adv. on the left
     adv. to the left
     adv. inside out




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