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Hildegard von Bingen

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Heute sehen die Kirchen in ihr eine besonders wichtige Frau in ihrer Geschichte.

Today, the churches see her as a particularly important woman in their history.

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kirchen← die Kirche
church (building or institution) plural: die Kirchen church (building); church (organised religion, especially Catholicism); an assembly A2/ˈkɪʁçə/

Grammar in this text

Prepositional phrase with dative after 'in'

in ihr

The preposition 'in' is followed by the dative case (ihr) because it indicates location (where? in her).

Possessive pronoun 'ihrer'

in ihrer Geschichte

The possessive pronoun 'ihrer' agrees in gender, number, and case with the noun 'Geschichte' (feminine, dative).

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