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entlanggehen

walk along

verb ent-LAHNG-gay-en Less Common
Travel & Places Movement

Also means

go alongside

Usage Note

entlanggehen means to walk along something, separable: die Straße entlanggehen. Note the object usually precedes entlang in the accusative; the perfect takes sein, as in ich bin entlanggegangen.

Examples

"Wir gingen den Fluss entlang bis zur Brücke."

Natural Translation

We walked along the river up to the bridge.

Literal Translation

We went the river along up to-the bridge.

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