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Warum
Adverb
  sie
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Pronoun
  nach
Adposition
  der
Determiner
  Stadt
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Noun
  Marburg
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Proper noun
  benannt
Verb
  wurde
Auxiliary
ist
Auxiliary
  weitgehend
Adverb
  unklar
Adjective
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Why it was named after the city of Marburg is largely unclear.
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warum

why; for what reason

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sie

  1. she
  2. it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine [die])
  3. he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is feminine [die])

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nach

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der

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Stadt

  1. city (a large settlement)
  2. town (a settlement larger than a village)
  3. city center (a central business area of a city)
  4. city, town, town council, city council (a governing body of people elected to oversee management of a municipality)

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Marburg

  1. A town, the administrative seat of Marburg-Biedenkopf district, Hesse; former official name, Marburg an der Lahn
  2. Maribor (a city in Slovenia; in full, Marburg an der Drau)
  3. Marburg (a rural town in Queensland, Australia)

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benannt

past participle of benennen

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ist

third-person singular present of sein

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