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Sentence

Wir haben noch nicht gegessen.

Translation

We have not eaten yet.



Analysis


wir
     pron. we
haben
     v. (auxiliary) to have (forms the perfect and past perfect tenses)
     v. to have; to own (to possess, have ownership of; to possess a certain characteristic)
     v. to have; to hold (to contain within itself/oneself)
     v. to have, get (to obtain, acquire)
     v. to get (to receive)
     v. to have (to be scheduled to attend)
     v. to have (to be afflicted with, suffer from)
     v. to contain, be composed of, equal
     v. (impersonal, dialectal, with es) there be, there is, there are
     v. to make a fuss
     v. (colloquial with es and mit) to be occupied with, to like, to be into
     v. (colloquial with es and von or über) to talk about
noch
     adv. still, yet (up to and including a given time)
     adv. yet, eventually (at an unknown time in the future)
     adv. additionally, in addition, besides, else; (more often expressed in English with) another, more
     adv. (only) just; barely (by a small margin)
     adv. (with comparative) even
     conj. (following a negation, especially weder) nor; function word introducing each except the first term or series, indicating none of them is true
nicht
     adv. not, non- (negates the meaning of a verb, adjective, or adverb)
     interj. (tag question, dated, or formal) right?; is it?; is it not?
noch nicht
     adv. not yet
gegessen
     Participle. past participle of essen
     essen
          v. to eat
          v. to eat; to dine




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