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. | |
Muß |
1. n. Superseded spelling of used=pre-1996 | |
2. v. Superseded spelling of used=pre-1996 | |
müssen |
1. v. (auxiliary) to have to (do something); must; to be obliged (to do something); to need (to do something). | |
Wir müssen es machen. - We must do it. | |
Wir müssen es nicht machen. - We need not do it. / We do not need to do it. | |
Ich musste es machen. - I had to do it. | |
2. v. to have to do something implied; must; to be obliged. | |
Ja, ich muss. - Yes, I must. | |
Ja, ich habe gemusst. - Yes, I had to. | |
3. v. (colloquial euphemism) to need to go to the bathroom. | |
doch |
1. part. (in response to a negative question or statement) yes; surely; really; on the contrary | |
Das darfst du nicht sagen. — Doch! - You can’t say that. — Yes, I can! | |
Du wirst nicht kommen? — Doch! - You're not going to come? — Yes, I am! | |
2. conj. though; yet; but; however; nevertheless | |
3. conj. for all that; after all; but | |
4. adv. after all; yet; however; nevertheless | |
5. adv. really; just | |
6. adv. indicates proposal Why don't you/we | |
Komm doch mal mit. - Why don't you just come with us? | |
einmal |
1. adv. once, one time (one and only one time) | |
Ich werde das nur einmal sagen. - I'm only going to say it once. | |
2. adv. once (formerly; during some period in the past) | |
Es war einmal eine schöne Prinzessin. - There was once a beautiful princess. | |
3. adv. sometime (at an indefinite but stated time in the past or future) | |
4. adv. first of all, for starters, firstly (as an initial point; before any other considerations) | |
Wurzeln |
1. n. gerund of wurzeln | |
2. n. plural of Wurzel "roots". | |
3. v. to be rooted | |
Wurzel |
1. n-f. root | |
2. n-f. (biology) root | |
3. n-f. (metaphorical) root, the primary source, origin | |
4. n-f. (mathematics) root, especially square root | |
Die Quadratwurzel aus 16 ist 4. Die Kubikwurzel aus 27 ist 3. Die vierte Wurzel aus 10000 ist 10. - The square root of 16 is 4. The cube root of | |
5. n-f. (linguistic morphology) root, the irreducible skeleton of a word | |
6. n-f. (historical linguistics) root, internal etymon | |
7. n-f. (Northern Germany) carrot | |
schlagen |
1. v. to beat; to hit; to knock; to strike; to punch; to hammer; to pound | |
2. v. to beat; to win against; to defeat | |
3. v. to beat; to strike repeatedly; to pound | |
4. v. to beat; to whip; to mix food in a rapid aerating fashion | |
5. v. (of a clock) to chime | |
6. v. to fight | |
Wurzeln schlagen |
1. v. to put down roots | |