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The meaning of the German word "jahre" and how you use it

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Jahre
(noun) (neut.) (pl.) years
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Er ist fünf Jahre alt .
He is five years old.
Wie viele Jahre hast du studiert ?
How many years did you study for?
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über mehr als 40 Jahre .
for more than 40 years.
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Über 35 Jahre wirkte Goethe hier als Bibliothekar .
Goethe acted as librarian here for over 35 years.
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All das ist jetzt unfassbare 25 Jahre her .
All of that is now an incredible 25 years in the making.
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Jahre alt
(expression) years old
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Sie ist elf Jahre alt .
She is eleven years old.
Das Schloss ist fast eintausend Jahre alt .
The castle is nearly a thousand years old.
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Das Ding ist halt mehr als dreißig Jahre alt
The thing is like more than thirty years old
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Das durchschnittlich e „ Kurzgesagt “ Publikum ist etwa fünf und zwanzig Jahre alt .
The average "Kurzgesagt" viewer is around twenty five years old.
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Sagen wir , einer von zwanzig Menschen , die sich dieses Video anschauen , wird hundert Jahre alt und zufällig bist du einer dieser Glücklichen .
Let's say one in twenty people that are watching this video will make it to one hundred years old and by chance you're one of these lucky ones.
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im...Jahre
(adv.) in (the year)
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Das Haus wurde im Jahre 1900 gebaut .
The house was built in 1900.
Im Jahre 1746 gab es den letzten Krieg auf der britischen Insel .
The last war on the British Isles was in 1746.
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Im Jahre 1900 besucht Picasso dann erstmals Paris , die Kunstmetropole der damaligen Zeit .
In 1900, Picasso then visits Paris for the first time, the art metropole of the former time.
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Jahre
(noun) (neut.) (sing.) year Some German nouns in the dative case receive an '-e' at the end in old-fashioned or literary writing.
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Im Jahre des Herrn 1746 verlor Schottland endgültig seine Unabhängigkeit .
I the year of our lord 1746 Scotland finally lost its independence.
Die neue Nation Amerika entstand im Jahre 1778 .
The new nation America came to be in the year 1776.
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Wir wissen , dass die Römer die Volksstämme aus dem hohen Norden „ Teutoni “ nannten und dass sie diesen Teutoni im Jahre hundert zwei vor Christus eine schwere Niederlage verpassten .
We know that the Romans called the tribes from the very North "Teutoni" and that inflicted a severe defeat upon these Teutoni in the year one hundred and two BC
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Im Jahre 1929 wurde dieses System geändert und für neu e Straßen
In 1929 this system was changed and for new streets
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die...80er...Jahre
(noun) (neut.) (pl.) the 80s; the 1980s
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Er ist in die 80er Jahre gestürzt .
He fell into the 1980s.
In die 80er Jahre hat er getanzt .
He danced into the 80s.
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