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Originally posted by orange monkeyee
... with a modal verb seinen-to be . yup.
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Correction
it's
sein and it's not a modal.
There are technically only 6 modals:
dürfen
können
mögen
müssen
sollen
wollen
and 3 auxilary verbs:
haben
sein
werden
It's important to know the difference, so I just wanted to clear that up
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Originally posted by Nancy
in this case it means "it must be". But with this particular sentence you'll need to know what kind of text it was taken from. Otherwise it can be translated in many ways. And that's why you should never use online dictionaires but ask someone who speaks the language so they can translate it correctly
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Yes, context is critical...however, I think online translators and dictionarys are valuable, when used with a bit of knowlegde of the language. Must add brain into equation.
And speaking of online dictionaries - there's an excellent german one, for those who don't know:
http://dict.leo.org
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Therell be days/When Ill stray/I may appear to be/Constantly out of reach/I give in to sin/Because I like to practise what I preach