um |
1. prep. about | |
Es geht um den Kuchen. - It's about the pie. | |
2. prep. around | |
Um die Ecke - around the corner | |
3. prep. at, by (qual, when relating to time) | |
Um acht Uhr reisen wir ab - At eight o’clock we depart | |
4. prep. by (qual, percentage difference) | |
Die Verkaufsmengen gingen um 6% zurück. - Sales in volume has decreased by 6%. | |
5. prep. (Austria) for qual, amount of money | |
Um einen Euro bekommt man heute nicht besonders viel. - You can't buy much for one euro these days. | |
Heute im Sonderangebot um nur 99 Euro. - Special offer today for only 99 euros. | |
6. conj. in order to, so as to | |
Wir sind gekommen, um zu helfen. - We’ve come (in order) to help. | |
7. adj. (predicative, not attributive) up, in the sense of finished | |
Werden dich in kurzem binden/ Erdgeist, deine Zeit ist um - source=Friedrich von Hardenberg, Novalis | |
8. adv. around, about | |
9. adv. turned over, changed, from one state to another | |
Sechs |
1. n-f. six | |
2. n-f. A failing grade in a class or course at school. The grades range from 1 (best) to 6 (worst). | |
3. num. (cardinal) six (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 6; or describing a set with six elements) | |
Uhr |
1. n-f. (invariable) hours, o'clock (indicates the time within a twelve- or twenty-four-hour period) | |
Es ist vier Uhr. - It is four o'clock. | |
Es ist vier Uhr zwölf. - It is twelve minutes past four. | |
Wieviel Uhr ist es? - What time is it? | |
2. n-f. clock, watch (instrument used to measure or keep track of time) | |
(hyponyms, Armbanduhr, Standuhr, Wanduhr) | |
Meine Uhr geht nach. - My watch is running slow. | |
3. n-f. (in compounds) meter; gauge (a kind of measuring device, typically for water and gas consumption) | |
Wasseruhr - water meter | |
Gasuhr - gas meter | |
4. n-f. (informal) clockwise direction | |
mit der Uhr - clockwise | |
gegen die Uhr - widdershins, counterclockwise | |
kommt |
1. v. third-person singular of kommen | |
2. v. second-person plural of kommen | |
3. v. plural imperative of kommen | |
kommen |
1. v. to come; to arrive | |
Er kam letzte Nacht sehr spät nach Hause. - He came home very late last night. | |
Als ich nach Wuppertal kam, hatte es gerade geschneit - When I arrived in Wuppertal, it had just snowed. | |
2. v. to come to; to come over (go somewhere so as to join someone else) | |
Bleib sitzen! Ich komme zu dir. - Keep your seat! I’m coming over to you. | |
Und viele kamen zu ihm und sprachen... - And many resorted unto him and said... (John 10:41) | |
3. v. to get; to make it (go somewhere in a way that implies an obstacle or difficulty to be overcome) | |
Ich komme nicht über die Mauer. - I can’t get over this wall. | |
Wenn er den Zug verpasst, kommt er heute nicht nach Nürnberg. - If he misses the train, he won’t make it to Nuremberg today. | |
4. v. to go to; to be put in (go somewhere in a way that is predetermined or prearranged) | |
Hartnäckige Sünder kommen in die Hölle. - Persistant sinners will go to hell. | |
Die Gruppensieger kommen ins Halbfinale. - The group winners will go to the semifinals. | |
5. v. to come on (Used to encourage someone to do something.) | |
Ach komm, das wird so schlimm nicht werden. - Aw, come on, it won’t be so bad. | |
Kommt, deckt schon mal den Tisch! - Come on, just set the table already. | |
6. v. to occur; to happen; to come to be | |
Dann kam, was alle befürchtet hatten. - Then happened that which everybody had feared. | |
Wie kommt es, dass...? - Why is it that ...? How come that...? | |
7. v. (impersonal) to be played (of a song or film) | |
Eben kam mein Lieblingslied. - They just played my favourite song. | |
8. v. to be due to; to be the result of | |
Das kommt alles von deiner Faulheit. - All of that is due to your laziness. | |
9. v. to come from (to have a social or geographic background) (+preo, aus, dative) | |
Sie kommt aus der Schweiz. - She comes from Switzerland. | |
Sie kommt aus einer Diplomatenfamilie. - She comes from a family of diplomats. | |
10. v. to orgasm; to cum | |
Ich komme gleich! - I’m about to cum! | |
Mir kommt's gleich! - I’m about to cum! | |
11. v. to be statistically equivalent to; to be there for (+preo, auf, accusative) | |
Auf jeden Verkehrstoten kommen zwanzig Verletzte. - For each traffic fatality there are twenty injured people. | |
12. v. to obtain (a solution or result) (+preo, auf, accusative) | |
Die Werte wurden frisiert, um auf das gewünschte Ergebnis zu kommen. - The values were manipulated in order to obtain the desired result. | |
13. v. to get an idea; to think of; to remember; to imagine (+preo, auf, accusative) | |
Ich komme im Moment nicht drauf, aber ich sag’s dir später. - I can’t think of it right now, but I’ll tell you later. | |
Ich weiß wirklich nicht, wie du immer auf diese Einfälle kommst. - I really don’t know how you always get all those ideas. | |
14. v. to lose; to forfeit; not to get (+preo, um) | |
Er hat Angst, dass er um seinen Anteil kommt. - He fears that he won’t get his share. | |
15. v. to touch inadvertently | |
Pass auf, dass du nicht an die frische Farbe kommst. - Be careful not to touch the wet paint. | |
16. v. to manage to reach (something high up etc.) (+preo, an, accusative) | |
Hilf ihm mal, er kommt nicht an den Griff. - Help him, he can't reach the handle. | |
17. v. (colloquial copulative with gut or in Ordnung) to turn out (well) | |
Am Ende kommt hoffentlich alles gut. - In the end, hopefully all will turn out well. | |
meine |
1. pron. feminine singular of meiner | |
2. pron. plural of meiner | |
3. det. feminine singular of mein | |
4. det. plural of mein | |
5. v. first-person singular present of meinen | |
6. v. first-person singular present subjunctive of meinen | |
7. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of meinen | |
8. v. singular imperative of meinen | |
mein |
1. det. (possessive) my | |
meinen |
1. v. to opine, to think; to believe; to suppose | |
Ich meine, das war letztes oder vorletztes Jahr. - I think it was last year or the year before. | |
2. v. to say; to utter; (not used with nouns; not used in the imperative and rarely in the infinitive) | |
Entschuldige, was meintest du gerade? - Sorry, what did you just say? | |
3. v. to mean; to be convinced or sincere about something | |
Das sagt er nicht nur, das meint er auch. - He doesn’t just say it, he means it. | |
4. v. to mean; to have in mind; to convey | |
Was meintest du damit? - What did you mean by that? | |
Meinst du das rote oder das gelbe Haus? - Do you mean the red or the yellow house? | |
5. v. (now rare) to mean; to signify | |
Was meint dieses Wort? - What does this word mean? | |
6. det. (possessive) masculine accusative singular of mein | |
7. det. (possessive) dative plural of mein | |
Lieblingssendung |
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im |
1. contraction. contraction of in dem ; in the | |
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) | |
dem |
1. art. dative singular of der: the | |
2. pron. dative singular of der: to whom, to which | |
Radio |
1. n. radio (technology that allows broadcasters to transmit audio programs; such programs) | |
2. n. radio (device for receiving such programs) | |