{"work":{"slug":"rilke","title":{"source":"Neue Gedichte","translated":"New Poems"},"author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","language":"German","languageCode":"de","url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke"},"unit":{"kind":"poem","number":null,"id":"kindheit","title":{"source":"Kindheit","translated":"Childhood"},"section":"New Poems","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/kindheit","lines":18},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/der-schwan","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/der-dichter","license":"Source text: public domain (Rainer Maria Rilke, died 1926; Neue Gedichte published 1907 and 1908), from Wikisource. English translation and notes: © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC. Narration: synthesized for this edition.","audioBase":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/","lines":[{"number":1,"label":"1","id":"kindheit-s1-l1","source":"Es wäre gut viel nachzudenken, um","translation":"It would be good to think much, so as","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Es wäre gut","title":"The subjunctive of sein for a wish","body":"wäre is Subjunctive II of sein, 'to be', used for a hypothetical, wished-for situation: Es wäre gut means 'It would be good'. The impersonal es fills the subject slot; the real content follows in the infinitive clause viel nachzudenken."},{"kind":"grammar","term":"um … zu","title":"um opens a purpose clause","body":"um here opens a purpose clause with um … zu plus infinitive, meaning 'in order to'. Rilke strands um at the end of the line and lets its infinitive, auszusagen, land in the next line: read um … etwas auszusagen across the break."}],"words":[{"surface":"Es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on wäre","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"wäre","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would be"},{"surface":"gut","lemma":"gut","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on wäre","gloss":"good"},{"surface":"viel","lemma":"viel","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on nachzudenken","gloss":"much"},{"surface":"nachzudenken","lemma":"nachdenken","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"depends on wäre","gloss":"to think"},{"surface":"um","lemma":"um","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on auszusagen","gloss":"so as"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"kindheit-s1-l2","source":"von so Verlornem etwas auszusagen,","translation":"to say something of all that is so lost,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Verlornem","title":"A syncopated participle used as a noun","body":"Verlornem is the past participle of verlieren, 'to lose', shortened from Verlorenem for the meter and capitalized as a neuter noun, 'that which is lost'. After von it takes the dative ending -em. aussagen means 'to state, to express'."}],"words":[{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on auszusagen","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Verlornem","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"Verlornem","lemma":"Verlorene","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"what is lost"},{"surface":"etwas","lemma":"etwas","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, neuter","role":"depends on auszusagen","gloss":"something"},{"surface":"auszusagen","lemma":"aussagen","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"to say"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"kindheit-s1-l3","source":"von jenen langen Kindheit-Nachmittagen,","translation":"of those long childhood afternoons","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"von jenen langen … Nachmittagen","title":"Dative plural after von","body":"jenen is the demonstrative jene, 'those', more distant and literary than diese. von governs the dative, so the whole phrase carries dative-plural endings: jenen langen … Nachmittagen, with Nachmittage taking its dative-plural -n."}],"words":[{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on auszusagen","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"jenen","lemma":"jener","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Kindheit-Nachmittagen","gloss":"those"},{"surface":"langen","lemma":"lang","morphology":"adjective, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Kindheit-Nachmittagen","gloss":"long"},{"surface":"Kindheit-Nachmittagen","lemma":"Kindheit-Nachmittag","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on von","gloss":"childhood afternoons"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"kindheit-s1-l4","source":"die so nie wiederkamen–und warum?","translation":"that never so returned again—and why?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"wiederkamen","title":"A separable verb in the simple past","body":"wiederkamen is the simple past of the separable verb wiederkommen, 'to come back, return'. In this relative clause the verb sits at the end and its parts close into one word: die … nie wiederkamen means 'that never came back'."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on wiederkamen–und","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on nie","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"nie","lemma":"nie","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on wiederkamen–und","gloss":"never"},{"surface":"wiederkamen–und","lemma":"wiederkommen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"returned again—and","note":"This token fuses 'wiederkamen' (returned again) with the following 'und' (and) — a spacing artifact in the source text, not a single word."},{"surface":"warum","lemma":"warum","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on wiederkamen–und","gloss":"why"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"kindheit-s2-l1","source":"Noch mahnt es uns–: vielleicht in einem Regnen,","translation":"Still it admonishes us—: perhaps in a raining,","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"mahnt","title":"A stronger word than remind","body":"mahnen means 'to admonish, urge, remind insistently', stronger and more solemn than erinnern. The impersonal es, the lost childhood, is the subject; uns is the accusative object: Noch mahnt es uns means 'It still calls us to account'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Noch","lemma":"noch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on mahnt","gloss":"still"},{"surface":"mahnt","lemma":"mahnen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"admonishes"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on mahnt","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"uns–","lemma":"uns","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural","role":"depends on mahnt","gloss":"us"},{"surface":"vielleicht","lemma":"vielleicht","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on in","gloss":"perhaps"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on mahnt","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"einem","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Regnen","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Regnen","lemma":"Regnen","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"raining"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"kindheit-s2-l2","source":"aber wir wissen nicht mehr, was das soll;","translation":"but we no longer know what it might mean;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"was das soll","title":"An idiom asking what something means","body":"was das soll is an idiom, literally 'what that is supposed to be', meaning 'what it means, what it is getting at'. The modal sollen here carries the sense of intention or significance, not obligation. nicht mehr means 'no longer'."}],"words":[{"surface":"aber","lemma":"aber","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on wissen","gloss":"but"},{"surface":"wir","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on wissen","gloss":"we"},{"surface":"wissen","lemma":"wissen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"know"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on wissen","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"mehr","lemma":"mehr","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on nicht","gloss":"longer"},{"surface":"was","lemma":"was","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on soll","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on soll","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"soll","lemma":"sollen","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on wissen","gloss":"might mean"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"kindheit-s2-l3","source":"nie wieder war das Leben von Begegnen,","translation":"never again was life so full of meeting,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"von Begegnen","title":"An infinitive turned into a noun","body":"Begegnen is the infinitive begegnen, 'to meet, encounter', which normally takes a dative object, turned into a neuter noun, 'meeting'. war das Leben … so voll runs across the line break to von Begegnen, naming what life brimmed with."}],"words":[{"surface":"nie","lemma":"nie","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on war","gloss":"never"},{"surface":"wieder","lemma":"wieder","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on war","gloss":"again"},{"surface":"war","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Leben","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Leben","lemma":"Leben","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on war","gloss":"life"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on voll","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"Begegnen","lemma":"Begegnen","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"meeting"}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"kindheit-s2-l4","source":"von Wiedersehn und Weitergehn so voll","translation":"of seeing-again and walking-onward,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Wiedersehn und Weitergehn","title":"Two more infinitives turned nouns","body":"wiedersehen, 'to see again', becomes Wiedersehn, and weitergehen, 'to walk on', becomes Weitergehn, both with -en clipped to -n for the meter. Paired, they name a childhood of constant reunion and onward motion."}],"words":[{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on voll","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"Wiedersehn","lemma":"Wiedersehn","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"seeing-again"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Wiedersehn","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"Weitergehn","lemma":"Weitergehn","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"walking-onward"},{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on voll","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"voll","lemma":"voll","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on war","gloss":"full"}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"kindheit-s3-l1","source":"wie damals, da uns nichts geschah als nur,","translation":"as then, when nothing befell us except","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"da uns nichts geschah","title":"da meaning when, not there","body":"Here da is the older, literary conjunction meaning 'when, as', not 'there'. geschehen, 'to happen, befall', is impersonal and takes a dative for the one affected: da uns nichts geschah means 'when nothing happened to us'. als nur means 'except only'."}],"words":[{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on damals","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"damals","lemma":"damals","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on voll","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"da","lemma":"da","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on geschah","gloss":"when"},{"surface":"uns","lemma":"uns","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"depends on geschah","gloss":"us"},{"surface":"nichts","lemma":"nichts","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter","role":"depends on geschah","gloss":"nothing"},{"surface":"geschah","lemma":"geschehen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on damals","gloss":"befell"},{"surface":"als","lemma":"als","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on nichts","gloss":"except"},{"surface":"nur","lemma":"nur","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on als","gloss":"only"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"kindheit-s3-l2","source":"was einem Ding geschieht und einem Tiere:","translation":"what befalls a thing and what befalls a beast:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"einem Ding … einem Tiere","title":"Dative objects of geschehen","body":"geschehen again takes a dative for the one something happens to: was einem Ding geschieht means 'what happens to a thing'. einem Tiere is the dative of das Tier, 'animal', with the older, optional dative -e ending kept for the rhyme with Ihre."}],"words":[{"surface":"was","lemma":"was","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on geschieht","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"einem","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Ding","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Ding","lemma":"Ding","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on geschieht","gloss":"thing"},{"surface":"geschieht","lemma":"geschehen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"befalls"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on geschieht","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"einem","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Tiere","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Tiere","lemma":"Tier","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"beast"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"kindheit-s3-l3","source":"da lebten wir, wie Menschliches, das Ihre","translation":"then we lived their life, as humankind does,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"das Ihre","title":"A nominalized possessive pronoun","body":"das Ihre is a nominalized possessive, 'their own, what belongs to them', here their own life or portion. Menschliches is the neuter adjective menschlich used as a noun, 'the human'. We lived proper to a thing and a beast, as the human lives its own."}],"words":[{"surface":"da","lemma":"da","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on lebten","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"lebten","lemma":"leben","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"lived"},{"surface":"wir","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on lebten","gloss":"we"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Menschliches","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"Menschliches","lemma":"Menschliches","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on lebten","gloss":"humankind"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Ihre","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Ihre","lemma":"ihr","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on lebten","gloss":"their own","note":"'das Ihre' is a fixed idiom meaning 'what is theirs / their own share'."}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"kindheit-s3-l4","source":"und wurden bis zum Rande voll Figur.","translation":"and brimmed, up to the very edge, with form.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"bis zum Rande voll Figur","title":"An idiom for being completely full","body":"bis zum Rande, 'to the rim, to the brim', is an idiom for being filled completely; der Rand means 'edge, rim'. voll Figur means 'full of figure', of shaped, defined presence: the child fills entirely with its own outline."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on wurden","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"wurden","lemma":"werden","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"became"},{"surface":"bis","lemma":"bis","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on zum","gloss":"up to"},{"surface":"zum","lemma":"zu","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on bis","gloss":"to the"},{"surface":"Rande","lemma":"Rand","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on zum","gloss":"edge"},{"surface":"voll","lemma":"voll","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on wurden","gloss":"full"},{"surface":"Figur","lemma":"Figur","morphology":"noun, genitive, feminine, singular","role":"depends on voll","gloss":"form","note":"'voll' governs a bare (uninflected) genitive here, a poetic construction: 'voll Figur' = 'full of form'."}]},{"number":13,"label":"13","id":"kindheit-s4-l1","source":"Und wurden so vereinsamt wie ein Hirt","translation":"And grew as solitary as a shepherd,","stanza":4,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s4-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"vereinsamt","title":"A participle marking becoming lonely","body":"vereinsamt is the past participle of vereinsamen, 'to grow lonely, become isolated', from einsam, 'lonely'; the ver- prefix marks the process. wurden … vereinsamt means 'grew solitary'. der Hirt is the shepherd, the image of one alone."}],"words":[{"surface":"Und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on wurden","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"wurden","lemma":"werden","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"grew"},{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on vereinsamt","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"vereinsamt","lemma":"vereinsamt","morphology":"adjective","role":"depends on wurden","gloss":"solitary"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on Hirt","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Hirt","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Hirt","lemma":"Hirt","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on wie","gloss":"shepherd"}]},{"number":14,"label":"14","id":"kindheit-s4-l2","source":"und so mit großen Fernen überladen","translation":"and so overburdened with great distances,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s4-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"überladen","title":"Overloaded with distance","body":"überladen means 'overloaded, overburdened', the past participle of überladen, 'to overload'. die Ferne, plural Fernen, means 'the distance, the far reaches'; the plural makes it 'great distances'. mit … überladen means 'loaded down with'."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on überladen","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on überladen","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on überladen","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"großen","lemma":"groß","morphology":"adjective, dative, plural","role":"depends on Fernen","gloss":"great"},{"surface":"Fernen","lemma":"Ferne","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"distances"},{"surface":"überladen","lemma":"überladen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on wurden","gloss":"overburdened"}]},{"number":15,"label":"15","id":"kindheit-s4-l3","source":"und wie von weit berufen und berührt","translation":"and as if called and touched from far away,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s4-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"berufen und berührt","title":"Two participles paired by sound","body":"berufen, from berufen, 'to call, summon', means 'called'; berührt, from berühren, 'to touch', means 'touched'. von weit means 'from far off'. The two participles describe the child as summoned and grazed by something distant."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"connects to the previous clause","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the comparison, depends on berufen","gloss":"as if"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on berufen","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"weit","lemma":"weit","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on von","gloss":"far away"},{"surface":"berufen","lemma":"berufen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"called"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"coordinates berufen and berührt","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"berührt","lemma":"berühren","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"coordinated with berufen","gloss":"touched"}]},{"number":16,"label":"16","id":"kindheit-s4-l4","source":"und langsam wie ein langer neuer Faden","translation":"and slowly, like a long new thread,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s4-l4.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"connects to the previous clause","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"langsam","lemma":"langsam","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on eingeführt","gloss":"slowly"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Faden","gloss":"like"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Faden","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"langer","lemma":"lang","morphology":"adjective, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Faden","gloss":"long"},{"surface":"neuer","lemma":"neu","morphology":"adjective, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Faden","gloss":"new"},{"surface":"Faden","lemma":"Faden","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on wie","gloss":"thread"}]},{"number":17,"label":"17","id":"kindheit-s4-l5","source":"in jene Bilderfolgen eingeführt,","translation":"drawn into those sequences of images,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s4-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"in … eingeführt","title":"A separable verb governing in plus accusative","body":"eingeführt is the past participle of the separable verb einführen, 'to lead in, introduce, thread in'. It governs in plus the accusative for the direction: in jene Bilderfolgen eingeführt means 'led into those picture-sequences'."}],"words":[{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on eingeführt","gloss":"into"},{"surface":"jene","lemma":"jener","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Bilderfolgen","gloss":"those"},{"surface":"Bilderfolgen","lemma":"Bilderfolge","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on in","gloss":"sequences of images"},{"surface":"eingeführt","lemma":"einführen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"drawn"}]},{"number":18,"label":"18","id":"kindheit-s4-l6","source":"in welchen nun zu dauern uns verwirrt.","translation":"in which to endure now bewilders us.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/kindheit-s4-l6.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"zu dauern uns verwirrt","title":"An infinitive phrase as the subject","body":"The infinitive phrase zu dauern, 'to last, to endure', is itself the subject of verwirrt, 'confuses', with uns as its accusative object: 'to endure now bewilders us'. in welchen, dative plural, points back to jene Bilderfolgen."}],"words":[{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on dauern","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"welchen","lemma":"welcher","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"depends on in, refers to Bilderfolgen","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"nun","lemma":"nun","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on dauern","gloss":"now"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on dauern","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"dauern","lemma":"dauern","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"infinitive clause, subject of verwirrt","gloss":"endure"},{"surface":"uns","lemma":"uns","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural","role":"depends on verwirrt","gloss":"us"},{"surface":"verwirrt","lemma":"verwirren","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"bewilders"}]}]}