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Sie wollten die Stadtmitte umgehen.

Translation

They wanted to avoid going through the middle of town.



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
wollten
     v. first-person plural preterite of wollen
     v. third-person plural preterite of wollen
     v. first-person plural subjunctive of wollen
     v. third-person plural subjunctive of wollen
     wollen
          adj. (relational) wool; woolen, woollen
          v. to want; to wish; to desire; to demand
          v. (auxiliary) to want (to do something)
          v. (auxiliary) to intend, to mean
die
     art. feminine singular of der
     art. plural of der
     pron. feminine singular of der
     pron. plural of der
     pron.          (in a subordinate clause as a relative pronoun) that; which; who; whom; whose
     pron.          (as a demonstrative pronoun) this one; that one; these ones; those ones; she; her; it; they; them
     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
Stadtmitte
     n-f. city center, downtown
umgehen
     v. to avoid, bypass, to go around (a physical obstacle)
     v. to avoid (something nonphysical)
     v. to handle, to deal with (+preo, mit)
     v. to go around (to circulate (in))
     v. to haunt, to walk the earth




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