oh |
1. interj. oh | |
da |
1. adv. (local) there; here | |
Wir fahren nach Hamburg. Meine Frau hat eine Freundin, die da wohnt. - We’re going to Hamburg. My wife has a friend who lives there. | |
Die Gäste sind noch nicht da. - The guests aren’t here yet. | |
2. adv. (temporal) then; so; at that moment | |
Ich war gerade eingeschlafen, und da kam ein Anruf. - I had just fallen asleep, and that’s when someone called. | |
Er hat immer weiter auf mich eingeschrien. Da bin ich einfach gegangen. - He just kept on shouting at me. So I just left. | |
3. adv. (colloquial) (replaces any takes a reflexive pronoun adverb when the context is clear) | |
Ich wollte eigentlich Linsensuppe machen, aber da (= dafür, dazu) hatte ich das Rezept nicht. | |
I was actually going to make lentil soup, but I didn’t have the recipe for it. | |
Wir haben jetzt ein Angebot gekriegt, aber da (= darüber) müssen wir noch diskutieren. | |
We’ve now received an offer, but we’ll still need to have discussion about that. | |
4. conj. since; as; because; given that | |
Da die Stelle mit häufigen Auslandskontakten verbunden ist, sind gute Fremdsprachenkenntnisse unerlässlich. - Since the position involves frequent international contacts, good foreign-language | |
5. conj. (literary, dated) when | |
Am Tag, da die Wahrheit offenbar wird, ist es zur Umkehr zu spät. - On the day when the Truth will become manifest, it will be too late for penitence. | |
sitzt |
1. v. second-person singular present of sitzen | |
2. v. third-person singular present of sitzen | |
3. v. second-person plural present of sitzen | |
4. v. plural imperative of sitzen | |
sitzen |
1. v. to sit; to perch | |
2. v. to stay (in one place); to remain; to be (in a particular place or state) | |
Wir saßen fest! - We were stuck! | |
3. v. to fit | |
4. v. to be (i, e.g. with voller) | |
Der Schrank sitzt voller Motten. - The cupboard is full of moths. | |
5. v. to do time; to spend time in jail | |
im Gefängnis sitzen. - to be in jail. | |
6. v. to hit home; to have a significant effect | |
7. v. to sit down | |
Du |
1. pron. alternative case form of du you (singular) (especially when used as a direct address in letters) | |
2. n. (literally) the thou, the you (singular) | |
jemandem das Du anbieten - to offer somebody the thou | |
3. pron. you (thou, singular familiar) | |
Aber |
1. n. an objection, a but | |
2. conj. but; however; though | |
Ich mag keine Orangen, aber ich mag Äpfel. - I don't like oranges, but I like apples. | |
3. adv. (obsolete, except in compounds) again | |
4. adv. (qualifier) rather; quite; unusually; used with adjectives to express a surprising degree, whether this surprise be real or for effect | |
Das ist aber teuer. - That's rather expensive. ≈ That's more expensive than I would’ve thought. | |
Du bist aber groß geworden! - Look how tall you’ve become! (said to a child) | |
5. adv. nonetheless, nevertheless | |
in |
1. prep. (with dative) in, inside, within, at (inside a building) | |
Es ist in dem Haus. - It is in the house. | |
Ich habe die Schlüssel im (in dem) Kühlschrank gefunden. - I found the keys in the refrigerator. | |
Unsere Kinder sind in der Schule. - Our kids are at school. | |
Er ist in einem Café. - He is at a coffee shop. | |
Letzte Nacht waren sie im (in dem) Club. - They were at the club last night. | |
2. prep. (with dative) in (pertaining to) | |
in diesem Sinne - in this/that sense | |
3. prep. (with dative) in, at, by (at the end of or during a period of time) | |
Er schloss sein Studium im Alter von vierzehn. - He completed his studies at/by the age of fourteen. | |
im Alter - in old age | |
im Mittelalter - during the middle ages | |
in den 1960er Jahren - in the 1960s | |
4. prep. (with accusative) into, to (going inside (of)) | |
Er geht ins Haus. - He goes into the house. | |
Wir gehen in die Schweiz. - We are going to Switzerland. | |
Wir treten in ein neues Zeitalter ein. - We are coming into a new age. | |
5. adj. in, popular (in fashion) | |
Einer |
1. n-m. (mathematics) unit | |
2. n-m. (mathematics) units' place, ones' place (place value of a number) | |
3. n-m. (sports) single scull | |
4. n-m. (swimming) one-meter diving board | |
5. num. feminine singular of ein | |
6. art. feminine singular of ein | |
7. pron. one | |
8. pron. someone, somebody | |
9. pron. feminine singular of einer | |
Bösen |
1. n. genitive singular of Böse | |
2. adj. form of böse | |
böse |
1. adj. evil; malicious; wicked | |
Unsere Taten können schlimme Folgen haben, selbst wenn wir keine bösen Absichten hatten. - Our actions can have terrible consequences even if we didn’t have any evil intentions. | |
jemandem Böses wollen. - to want to hurt someone. | |
2. adj. bad; naughty | |
Böse Kinder kriegen nichts vom Sankt Nikolaus. - Naughty children don’t get anything from St. Nicholas. | |
3. adj. (chiefly predicative) angry | |
Bist du böse auf mich? - Are you angry at me? | |
4. adv. nastily, evilly | |
Klemme |
1. n-f. clamp | |
2. n-f. grip | |
3. n-f. (colloquial) difficult situation, predicament | |
aus der Klemme helfen - to bail out, to help out (of a predicament) | |
in der Klemme stecken - to be in trouble | |
4. v. first-person singular present of klemmen | |
5. v. first-person singular subjunctive of klemmen | |
6. v. third-person singular subjunctive of klemmen | |
7. v. singular imperative of klemmen | |