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Sie biss ein kleines Stück vom Apfel ab.

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Analysis


Sie
     pron. you (polite; singular and plural)
     pron. she
     pron. it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine die)
     pron. he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is feminine die)
     pron. they; them
     es
          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
biss
     v. first-person singular preterite of beißen
     v. third-person singular preterite of beißen
ein
     art. a, an
     adv. (now chiefly in compounds) indicating (concrete or abstract/metaphorical) motion into something
     adj. (predicative) on
kleines
     adj. form of klein
     klein
          adj. small, little, tiny, wee, small-scale
          adj. little, young (in age)
          adj. insignificant
Stück
     n. (invariant) one, item, piece (of something ; often untranslated in English)
     n. (invariant) head (a single animal)
     n. (declinable, or invariant) piece (portion of something bigger or of an unmass)
     n. Something of artistic or historic value; piece of art (of any kind, but less common of novels and films)
     n. (pejorative and/or sexual) a person, often female
     n. (military, obsolete) piece (artillery gun)
vom
     contraction. from the, of the; about the (contraction of von + dem)
     von
          prep. from
          prep. of, belonging to (often replacing genitive; see usage note below)
          prep. by (with passive voice)
          prep. about, of (a topic)
          prep. on, with (a resource)
     dem
          art. dative singular of der: the
          pron. dative singular of der: to whom, to which
Apfel
     n. apple (fruit)
ab
     prep. beginning at that time or location; from
     adj. (colloquial predicative) off; not attached to anything anymore
     adj. (nonstandard) off; not attached to anything anymore




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