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Ich nehme lieber das Fahrrad

Translation

I prefer to take the bicycle.



Analysis


Ich
     n. (psychoanalysis) ego
     n. self, me, him, etc.
     pron. I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun)
nehme
     v. first-person singular present of nehmen
     v. first-person singular subjunctive of nehmen
     v. third-person singular subjunctive of nehmen
     nehmen
          v. to take (something into one's possession or on one's body)
          v. (ditransitive) to take from
          v. to hold (in one's hands), to grasp
          v. to take, to consider (a statement, a situation, an idea, etc, in a certain way, for example seriously, badly, personally)
          v. to capture, to arrest
          v. to ingest (e.g. a pill)
          v. to move into, to sit at (one's assigned position)
          v. to use (time, effort, etc. for a specific purpose)
          v. To begin or cause the action implied by a noun to take place, possibly making the sentence more passive or indirect.
          v. to cause oneself to be (in some state); to become; to take oneself (to some state)
          v. to seize, to capture
          v. to receive, to accept
          v. to foul
lieber
     adj. comparative of lieb
     adj. form of lieb
     adv. comparative of gern; rather, better, by preference
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
Fahrrad
     n. bicycle




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