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Sentence

Es geschieht ihm recht.

Translation

It serves him right.



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
geschieht
     v. third-person singular present of geschehen
     geschehen
          v. to occur; to happen
          v. to happen to (someone)
          v. (impersonal, with dative and recht) to serve (someone) right (in this construction passieren is not possible)
          Participle. past participle of geschehen
          Participle. (impersonal, with um) over, lost, done for, doomed, dead
ihm
     pron. personal dative of er; him, to him (indirect object); for him (in some cases).
     pron. personal dative of es; to it (indirect object); for it (in some cases).
recht
     adj. right (direction)
     adj. proper, correct
     adj. true, real
     adj. just, lawful
     adv. very, quite, rather, pretty, fairly
     adv. well, right
     adv. exactly




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