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Es ist nach acht Uhr.

Translation

It is past eight o'clock.



Analysis


Es
     n. (music) E-flat
     n. (psychoanalysis) id
     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
ist
     v. third-person singular present of sein
     sein
          v. (copulative, with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to be
          v. (with a dative object and certain adjectives) to feel, (to experience a condition)
          v. (with a dative object and nach or danach, sometimes with zumute) to feel like, to be in the mood for
          v. (auxiliary) forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain intransitive verbs
          v. to exist; there to be; to be alive
          v. to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.)
          v. to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag
          det. his
          det. its (agreeing with a masculine or neuter noun)
          det.          (informal) Used to express an approximate number, often with so.
          det. one's
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
acht
     num. (cardinal) eight (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 8; or describing a set with eight elements)
Uhr
     n-f. (invariable) hours, o'clock (indicates the time within a twelve- or twenty-four-hour period)
     n-f. clock, watch (instrument used to measure or keep track of time)
     n-f. (in compounds) meter; gauge (a kind of measuring device, typically for water and gas consumption)
     n-f. (informal) clockwise direction
acht Uhr
     n. eight o'clock




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