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| Es |
| n. (music) E-flat |
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| n. (psychoanalysis) id |
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| pron. Nominative and accusative neuter third-person singular personal pronoun |
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| Wo ist das Buch? Es liegt auf dem Tisch. - Where's the book? It’s on the table. |
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| Wo ist das Kind? Ich habe es. - Where is the child? I have it. |
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| ist |
| v. third-person singular present of sein |
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| sein |
| v. (copulative, with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to be |
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| Das ist schön. - That is beautiful. |
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| Das ist ein Auto. - That is a car. |
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| v. (with a dative object and certain adjectives) to feel, (to experience a condition) |
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| Usage: In this sense sein is always conjugated in the third person singular and takes a Dative noun. The impersonal subject es may be present, but is often taken as implied. For example: "Mir i |
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| halb |
| adj. half, halfway |
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| Er ist seit einem halben Monat nicht mehr hier gewesen. - He hasn’t been here for half a month. |
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| adv. a half-hour before, thirty minutes before (used with the number of the following hour) |
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| Wir treffen uns um halb zwei. - We’re meeting at one-thirty. |
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| Fünf |
| n-f. five |
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| num. (cardinal) five (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 5; or describing a set with five elements) |
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