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Sentence

Du bist unsere letzte Hoffnung.

Translation

You are our last hope.



Analysis


Du
     pron. alternative case form of du you (singular) (especially when used as a direct address in letters)
     n. (literally) the thou, the you (singular)
     pron. you (thou, singular familiar)
bist
     v. second-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
unsere
     pron. feminine singular of unser
     pron. plural of unser
     unser
          pron. genitive of wir
          det. our
letzte
     adj. last
     letzter
          adj. form of letzte
Hoffnung
     n-f. hope, the belief or expectation that something wished for can or will really happen.
     n-f. (inanimate) hope, the actual thing wished for
     n-f. (animate) hope, a person or thing that is a source of hope




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