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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.
bekommt
     1. v. third-person singular present of bekommen
     2. v. second-person plural present of bekommen
     3. v. plural imperative of bekommen
     bekommen
          1. v. to receive; to get (+aux, haben)
                Hunger bekommen - to get hunger
                ein Kind bekommen - to have a child
          2. v. to catch (+aux, haben)
                den Schnupfen bekommen - to catch a cold
          3. v. (with dative object) to agree with (someone); to sit well with (someone) i, of food or drink +aux, sein
                Das Essen bekommt ihm nicht. - The food does not agree with him.
          4. v. to get (with the past participle form of a verb) (+aux, haben)
                Das bekommt er ständig gesagt. - He gets told that all the time.
                Wir haben sie ins Krankenhaus gebracht, wo sie einen Gips angelegt bekommen hat. - We brought her to the hospital where she got a cast applied.
                Haben Sie jemals Antidepressiva verordnet bekommen? - Have you ever been prescribed antidepressants?
man
     1. pron. one, you (indefinite pronoun; construed as a third-person singular)
           Man kann nicht immer kriegen, was man will. - You can’t always get what you want.
           Manchmal muss man Kompromisse machen. - Sometimes one must compromise.
     2. pron. they, people (people in general)
           Zumindest sagt man das so... - At least that’s what they say...
     3. pron. someone, somebody (some unspecified person)
     4. pron. they (some unspecified group of people)
     5. adv. (colloquial regional northern Germany) just; only
           Komm man hier rüber! - Just come over here!
           Das sind man dreißig Stück oder so. - These are only thirty or so.
eine
     1. num. feminine singular of ein
     2. art. feminine singular of ein: a, an
     3. pron. feminine singular of einer
     4. pron. masculine nominative singular of einer
     5. pron. singular of einer
Grüne
     1. n-f. greenness
     2. n. female equivalent of Grüner: female green (member of an environmentalist party), female environmentalist
     3. n. plural of Grüner
     4. n. nominative singular of Grüner
     5. n. plural of Grünes
     6. n. singular of Grünes
     7. adj. form of grün
     grün
          1. adj. green (in colour)
          2. adj. (of fruit, vegetables) unripe
          3. adj. inexperienced, young
          4. adj. ecological, environment-friendly
          5. adj. (politics, relational) of a green party, such as Bündnis 90/Die Grünen in Germany
Haut
     1. n. skin, hide of a person, animal or (part of a) plant
     2. n. (by extension, metonymy) a creature, especially a person
           brave Haut - brave person
     3. n. skin (membrane found on the surface of an object, like a sausage)
     4. v. second-person plural present of hauen
     5. v. third-person singular present of hauen
     6. v. plural imperative of hauen
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