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Zij
Pronoun
  stonden
Verb
  aan het
  roer
Noun
  toen
Subordinating conjunction
  dit
Determiner
  alles
Pronoun
  gebeurde
Verb
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They were at the helm when all this happened.
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zij

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stonden

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aan het

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see aan, het.
  2. Forms the continuous aspect, together with the gerund and with zijn as auxiliary verb.

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roer

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toen

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dit

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alles

everything

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gebeurde

  1. inflection of gebeuren: ## singular past indicative ## (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive
  2. inflection of gebeuren: ## singular past indicative ## (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive

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