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Split a sentence into elements
I try to decompose this sentence in elements and I am not sure how to do it:
Was ist denn das für eine Geschichte?
This may translate as "What kind of story is this?" (not sure).
Could you ...
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Is there common pairing of different English and German prepositions in the same sentences? [closed]
German and English use different prepositions in the same sentence.
Some of these seem to me to be more often than others.
For example, "in" in the following German sentence and "on&...
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The definition of "so was von"
In a game, the characters says
"wir sind so was von tot"
I switched language from German to English, and found out that the translation is
"we are so dead"
I am confused by the phrase "so was ...
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