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Es soll da viele Leute geben.

Translation

They say that there are many people there.



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
soll
     v. first-person singular present of sollen
     v. third-person singular present of sollen
     sollen
          v. (auxiliary) should; to be obligated (to do something); ought; shall
          v. (auxiliary) to be recommended (to do something); to be asked (to do something)
          v. (auxiliary) to be intended (to do something); to be meant (to be something)
          v. (auxiliary) to be said (to do something); reportedly; they say that; I hear that; so they say; rumor has it; supposedly.
          v. (auxiliary) would; indicates that the subordinate clause indicates something that would happen in the past but after the time frame of the main clause
          v. (auxiliary) should; indicates that the subordinate clause indicates a hypothetical and unlikely condition for the main clause
da
     adv. (local) there; here
     adv. (temporal) then; so; at that moment
     adv. (colloquial) (replaces any takes a reflexive pronoun adverb when the context is clear)
     conj. since; as; because; given that
     conj. (literary, dated) when
viele
     adj. form of viel
     viel
          pron. much, a lot
          det. much, many
          det. In the singular, the adjective is usually left unchanged when it is not preceded by an article or determiner (see example sentence above). Otherwise it is declined like a normal adjective: das viele
          det. In the plural, the adjective is usually declined even without a preceding article or determiner: viele Kinder. However, it may be left unchanged when modified by a preceding adverb, e.g. in the combi
          det. The comparative form mehr is invariable and never declined; it cannot be preceded by any article or determiner (note however mehrere, mehreres, and obsolete mehre, mehr
          adv. much, a lot
Leute
     n. people (several individual persons, a group of people in general, esp. of one kind or another), folk (folks), peeps (slang), guys (boys and/or girls)
     n. plural of Leut
geben
     v. (ditransitive) to give (changing ownership)
     v. (ditransitive) to hand, to pass, to put within reach
     v. (impersonal, transitive) Used to indicate that something exists (often with a certain property and/or in a certain location). Usually translated as there be or there exist
     v. (ditransitive, transitive) to communicate (helpful information such as a hint or advice), to signal (in a certain way such as a sign)
     v. to present; to put
     v. to result in




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