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Wir hatten den ganzen Tag Sonne.

Translation

We had sunshine all day.



Analysis


wir
     pron. we
hatten
     v. first-person plural preterite of haben
     v. third-person plural preterite of haben
     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
den
     art. masculine accusative singular of der
     art. dative plural of der
     pron. that; whom; masculine accusative singular of der
ganzen
     adj. form of ganz
     ganz
          adj. entire, whole, complete
          adj. (informal) all (with definite article or determiner)
          adj. (colloquial) whole, intact
          adj. (in certain combinations) true; real
          adj. (mathematics) integer (of a number)
          adv. quite, rather
          adv. very
          adv. wholly, entirely, all
Tag
     n. day (24-hour period)
     n. day (period from midnight to the following midnight)
     n. (astronomy) day (rotational period of a planet, moon or any celestial body (especially Earth))
     n. day, daylight (period between sunrise and sunset when there is daylight)
     n. day, daylight, light (light from the Sun)
     n. (figurative) light (open view; a visible state or condition)
     n. day (part of a day which one spends at work, school, etc.)
     n. (figurative) day (specified time or period, considered with reference to the prominence or success (in life or in an an argument or conflict) of a person or thing)
     n. (dated, now found chiefly in compounds such as Bundestag, Reichstag, Landtag, Sudetendeutscher Tag or Tag der Oberschlesier) convention, congress (formal assembly)
     n. see Tage for plural-only senses
     interj. (colloquial) hello; (good) day
Sonne
     Proper noun. (astronomy) the Sun
     n-f. (astronomy) a sun (a star, especially when being the center of a solar system)
     n-f. sunshine, sunlight (the light and warmth we receive on Earth from the sun)




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