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29 translations across 17 languages.
23 total sentences available.
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
Source: tatoeba (552745)
Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
Source: tatoeba (1172165)
I put my pencils yonder on the bed.
Source: tatoeba (1213813)
Near yonder narrow road stands an old knight's castle; thick ivy creeps over the old ruined walls, leaf over leaf, even to the balcony, in which stands a beautiful maiden. She bends over the balustrades, and looks up the road. No rose on its stem is fresher than she; no apple-blossom, wafted by the wind, floats more lightly than she moves. Her rich silk rustles as she bends over and exclaims, 'Will he not come?'
Source: tatoeba (3753076)
Showing 4 of 23 available sentences.
Closest matches include beyond, distant, faraway, farther, further.
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