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Meet das Glied

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All 7 meanings

  1. (usually) limb, joint
  2. (euphemistic) genital organ, (especially) the male one, the penis, member
  3. (archaic) any other external body part
  4. member, part
  5. link (in a chain)
  6. (military) group of (usually three) soldiers standing or marching next to each other in a formation, (loosely also) the formation as a whole

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For das Glied, use the coloured columns: neuter and plural.

der, die, das
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativederdiedasdie
accusativedendiedasdie
dativedemderdemden
ein, kein, mein: ein has no plural. mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser… end like kein.
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativeeineineeinkeine
accusativeeineneineeinkeine
dativeeinemeinereinemkeinen

Plural die Glieder · Dative plural den Gliedern

Examples

  1. 1
    Das rechte Glied fehlt.The right limb is missing.Nominative · subjectPractise „rechte“ →
  2. 2
    Ich bewege das linke Glied.I move the left limb.Accusative · bewegenPractise „linke“ →
  3. 3
    Sie beginnt mit dem ersten Glied.She begins with the first link.Dative · mitPractise „erste“ →
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