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Ich bin ins Kino gegangen.

Translation

I went to the cinema.



Analysis


Ich
     n. (psychoanalysis) ego
     n. self, me, him, etc.
     pron. I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)
bin
     v. first-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
ins
     contraction. (in)to the (accusative singular neuter)
     in
          prep. (with dative) in, inside, within, at (inside a building)
          prep. (with dative) in (pertaining to)
          prep. (with dative) in, at, by (at the end of or during a period of time)
          prep. (with accusative) into, to (going inside (of))
          adj. in, popular (in fashion)
     das
          art. singular of der: the
          pron. singular of der
          pron.          (relative) who, that, which
          pron.          (demonstrative) this, that, it
          pron.          (regional, northern Germany) it (subject of an impersonal verb)
     der
          art. the
          art. feminine singular of der
          art. genitive plural of der
          pron. who; that; which
          pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) whom, which, that
          pron. (attributive, stressed) that
          pron. (indicative) him, he
          pron. (differential) the one, him
          pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) that, (to) her
Kino
     n. cinema
gegangen
     Participle. past participle of gehen
     gehen
          v. to go, to walk
          v. to leave
          v. to leave, to take off (aeroplane, train)
          v. (impersonal, intransitive) to be going; to be all right; indicates how the dative object fares
          v. (slightly, informal, intransitive, often, impersonal) to be possible
          v. (colloquial intransitive) to work, to function (of a machine, method or the like)
          v. (colloquial intransitive) to last, to go for, to go on, to be in progress
          v. to sit, to rise, to expand (of dough etc.)
          v. (colloquial intransitive) to be (on) (to pay)
          v. (regional, or dated, impersonal, intransitive) to approach; to be going (on some one) + auf (object) = time
          v. (with genitive, only in combination with Weg) to go one's way, to make one's way (of a path, destination), to go separate ways




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