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Kommt, deckt doch schon mal den Tisch.

Translation

Come on, just set the table already.



Analysis


kommt
     v. third-person singular of kommen
     v. second-person plural of kommen
     v. plural imperative of kommen
     kommen
          v. to come; to arrive
          v. to come to; to come over (go somewhere so as to join someone else)
          v. to get; to make it (go somewhere in a way that implies an obstacle or difficulty to be overcome)
          v. to go to; to be put in (go somewhere in a way that is predetermined or prearranged)
          v. to come on (Used to encourage someone to do something.)
          v. to occur; to happen; to come to be
          v. (impersonal) to be played (of a song or film)
          v. to be due to; to be the result of
          v. to come from (to have a social or geographic background) (+preo, aus, dative)
          v. to orgasm; to cum
          v. to be statistically equivalent to; to be there for (+preo, auf, accusative)
          v. to obtain (a solution or result) (+preo, auf, accusative)
          v. to get an idea; to think of; to remember; to imagine (+preo, auf, accusative)
          v. to lose; to forfeit; not to get (+preo, um)
          v. to touch inadvertently
          v. to manage to reach (something high up etc.) (+preo, an, accusative)
          v. (colloquial copulative with gut or in Ordnung) to turn out (well)
deckt
     v. third-person singular present of decken
     v. second-person plural present of decken
     v. plural imperative of decken
     decken
          v. to cover (a roof, with a blanket, etc.)
          v. (figuratively) to cover (e.g. a demand, a loss; butnot “to provide news coverage”)
          v. (figuratively) to cover (a female animal)
          v. to lay or set (the table)
          v. (soccer) to mark
          v. to be congruent, to coincide
          v. (chess) to protect, to guard
doch
     part. (in response to a negative question or statement) yes; surely; really; on the contrary
     conj. though; yet; but; however; nevertheless
     conj. for all that; after all; but
     adv. after all; yet; however; nevertheless
     adv. really; just
     adv. indicates proposal Why don't you/we
schon
     adv. already (happening rather early, continuing rather long)
     adv. previously, before (at some time in the past; butnot: before a certain event)
     adv. expresses that an action has been completed; already (i, but more frequent); yet i, in questions
     adv. (modal particle) expresses a weighing of arguments, contrast between two statements, partial agreement, concession; admittedly; sure(ly); definitely; indeed
     adv. really (as an intensifier)
     v. singular imperative of schonen
     v. colloquial of
     schonen
          v. to spare (not harm)
          v. to rest, to avoid overexertion
mal
     adv. times (indicating multiplication of two numbers)
     adv. (informal) Alternative form of einmal, , sometime, ever, once, may serve to introduce a new information.
     adv. (informal) Softening a sentence, thus making a request or command more polite. By extension, indicating a command or request.
     v. singular imperative of malen
     v. colloquial of
     malen
          v. to paint (do paintwork)
          v. to paint (create a painting)
          v. (loosely) to draw, depict (with a pencil, computer program, etc.)
schon mal
     adv. (somewhat, informal) ever; before; already
     adv. (somewhat, informal) once in a while; at times; incidentally
     adv. (colloquial) used for emphasis
den
     art. masculine accusative singular of der
     art. dative plural of der
     pron. that; whom; masculine accusative singular of der
Tisch
     n. table (a piece of furniture with a relatively deep surface at roughly waist or knee level); (specific uses include:)
     n.          dining table, dinner table
     n.          desk (table used for writing)
     n.          bench, workbench (table at which manual work is done)
     n. (figuratively, now only in compounds and expressions) meal (food served or eaten as a repast)




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