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Tip: Gender of German nouns:
{m} = der, {f} = die, {n} = das, {pl} = die

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Da hat er zu schnell aus der Hüfte geschossen. It was a knee-jerk reaction on his part.

Reflexartig kommt der Vorschlag "Museum" in den Sinn, doch niemand benötigt so viele Museen oder könnte sie bezahlen. [G] The knee-jerk reaction is to propose a "museum", but no one needs or could ever pay for so many museums.

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