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Sentence

Er umging den Bach.

Translation

He went around the creek.



Analysis


Er
     n. a person or animal of male gender, a male
     pron. (personal) he.
     pron. (personal) it (when the grammatical gender of the object/article/thing/animal etc., being referred to, is masculine (der)).
     pron. (personal) she (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a female person, is masculine (der)).
     pron. (personal, archaic) Alternative spelling of Er, tr=you (polite)
umging
     v. first-person singular preterite of umgehen
     v. third-person singular preterite of umgehen
     umgehen
          v. to avoid, bypass, to go around (a physical obstacle)
          v. to avoid (something nonphysical)
          v. to handle, to deal with (+preo, mit)
          v. to go around (to circulate (in))
          v. to haunt, to walk the earth
den
     art. masculine accusative singular of der
     art. dative plural of der
     pron. that; whom; masculine accusative singular of der
Bach
     n. brook, stream
     Proper noun. surname, topographic
     Proper noun. (music) Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer




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