
Pronouns stand in for a noun; usually, they are only used once the
part that they stand in for has been introduced. They help to
abbreviate sentences.
Der neue Stuhl ist rot. = Er ist rot.
German has a feature that works similarly with longer phrases that include prepositional objects (and English does not really have anything similiar [anymore]). This feature is commonly called DA-compound or WO-compound, respectively.
In this case,
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If you cannot enter special characters directly: * Cut & Paste the appropriate character from here: ß - Ä - ä - Ö - ö - Ü - ü * Or, for the "ß" use the capital letter "B" (or an "sz"), for umlauts use these transcriptions: ä = ae; Ä = AE; ü = ue etc. |
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