| was |
| pron. (interrogative) what |
| pron. (relative) which ((referring to the entire preceding clause)) |
| pron. (relative) that, which ((referring to das, alles, etwas, nichts, and neuter substantival adjectives)) |
| pron. (relative, colloquial) that, which ((referring to neuter singular nouns, instead of standard das)) |
| pron. (indefinite, colloquial) something, anything ((instead of standard etwas)) |
| pron. (interrogative, dated) why (with emphasis, astonishment or disapproval) |
| adv. (colloquial) a little, somewhat |
| adv. (interrogative, colloquial) why, what for |
| für |
| prep. for |
| prep. in favor of, in support of |
| prep. by the standards of |
| prep. on behalf of |
| prep. kind / type of |
| prep. (informal) instead of |
| prep. (colloquial nonstandard) in order to (with zu and infinitive) |
| was für |
| det. what; what kind of |
| det. (in exclamation, with 'ein') (oh) what; (oh) such |
| adv. (youth slang) Used to express strong rejection of a particular phrase in a statement by someone else; similar to English what do you mean. |
| ein |
| art. a, an |
| adv. (now chiefly in compounds) indicating (concrete or abstract/metaphorical) motion into something |
| adj. (predicative) on |
| Mensch |
| n. human, human being, man |
| n. woman |
| n. (nowadays often pejorative) woman, broad |
| interj. man! rah! |
| bist |
| v. second-person singular present of sein |
| sein |
| v. (copulative, with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to be |
| v. (with a dative object and certain adjectives) to feel, (to experience a condition) |
| v. (with a dative object and nach or danach, sometimes with zumute) to feel like, to be in the mood for |
| v. (auxiliary) forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain intransitive verbs |
| v. to exist; there to be; to be alive |
| v. to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.) |
| v. to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag |
| det. his |
| det. its (agreeing with a masculine or neuter noun) |
| det. (informal) Used to express an approximate number, often with so. |
| det. one's |
| du |
| pron. you (thou, singular familiar) |
| wirklich |
| adj. real |
| adv. really, actually |
