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1.
umbe
prep.
39 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) With ref. to location or position: around (sth.), about; surrounding (sb. or sth.), encircling;
waiten umbe
, to look around (oneself) (b) with ref. to time: about (a time, period of time), at…
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