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What kind of word is im in the below sentence?

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Arsak
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    Any dictionary should be able to answer your question. – David Vogt May 27 '19 at 07:54
  • I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is not a sentence. It is a sentence fragment. – peterh May 27 '19 at 08:20
  • We have some related questions that might help you to understand: When would one use im and am rather than in dem and an dem?, When to use bei/bei der/beim and in/im/in der? – Arsak May 27 '19 at 09:17
  • @peterh, really? This should be the reason to consider it an off-topic question? ;-) – Björn Friedrich May 30 '19 at 18:22
  • @BjörnFriedrich I voted to close as off-topic on the reason I stated. The question was closed by a different reason what I disagree: it is clearly not an information what would exist in any dictionary, it is an interesting grammatical question, because "im" is here the mix the preposition "in" and the article "dem". The probably reason of the close-voters was the unclarity. Because the question was edited to clear since then, I voted to reopen this question now. – peterh May 30 '19 at 18:25
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    @peterh, my first try already disproves your claim: https://www.dwds.de/wb/im. – Björn Friedrich May 30 '19 at 18:28
  • @BjörnFriedrich Ok, thanks. There is no way to retract a reopen vote, and I still consider this question interesting and grammatical. But I admit that there are answers in dictionaries. Maybe in the form "how to determinate the kind of the mix of two words of different kinds" would be even reopenable. – peterh May 30 '19 at 18:33

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The word im is a preposition.

Just a comment: It wouldn't have demanded a great deal to figure this out by yourself, especially, since the English counterparts at and in (the) are also prepositions.

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    Im is a contraction of in dem, so strictly speaking, it is not a preposition but a combined preposition (in) and article (dem). – RHa May 30 '19 at 18:51
  • @RHa and I think that is exactly the problem here - This contraction is a phenomenon other languages (like English, and unlike Spanish, for example) don't have. – tofro May 30 '19 at 21:58
  • @tofro I think that the English contraction of can not to can't is quite the same phenomenon - it just doesn't occur in a preposition. – Volker Landgraf May 31 '19 at 09:45