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Deswegen
Adverb
  konnte
Auxiliary
  der
Determiner
  Schurke
🦹‍♂️
Noun
  sich
Pronoun
 unbehelligt  daran
Adverb
  zu
Particle
  schaffen
Verb
  machen
Verb
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That's why the villain was able to work on it unmolested.
Words and sentences
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deswegen

therefore, because of that

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konnte

first/third-person singular preterite of können

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der

🦹‍♂️
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Schurke

villain, scoundrel

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sich

  1. Reflexive pronoun of the third person singular: herself, himself, itself, oneself (direct or indirect object)
  2. Reflexive pronoun of the third person plural: themselves (direct or indirect object)

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daran

  1. on it, on that
  2. at it, at that
  3. thereto

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schaffen

to create; to produce; to make; to cause; to establish

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machen

  1. to make, to produce, to create (an object, arrangement, situation, etc.)
  2. to make, prepare (food, drinks, etc.)
  3. (informal) to do, perform, carry out (an action) (to execute; to put into operation)
  4. to do (a noun); indicates an activity associated with a noun
  5. to go (a specified sound) (to make the sound)
  6. to make, to cause
  7. to cause [with dative ‘for/in someone’ and accusative abstract noun ‘fear, pain, difficulty, happiness, etc.’] (often translated idiomatically with English make followed by an adjective)
  8. to make (to cause to be)
  9. to make (to transform) [with accusative ‘something’ and aus (+ dative) ‘from something else’] (often translated idiomatically with English turn (something into something else))
  10. to make (to have as a feature) (often not translated literally)
  11. (colloquial,informal) to come to, to total, to cost (to require the payment of)
  12. to make, to be (the result of a calculation)
  13. (colloquial,informal) to make (to earn, gain wages, profit, etc.)
  14. to be, to play (to act as the indicated role, especially in a performance)
  15. (colloquial) to signify, to mean [with nichts, viel, etc.] (translated idiomatically as English (not) matter)
  16. (informal) to make, to make oneself out to be, to act, to play (to behave so as to give an appearance of being; to act as if one were (something, or a certain way))
  17. (informal) to do one's business, do number two or number one, go (to defecate or urinate)
  18. to do, to fare
  19. to look (to have an appearance of being)
  20. (colloquial) to get cracking (on/with), to get a move on (it), to get down (to)
  21. come on, let's go

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