über |
1. prep. (accusative, or dative) above, over (spatially) | |
Über dem Wald ist der Himmel blau. - Over the forest, the sky is blue. | |
Die Vögel flogen über den Wald. - The birds flew over the forest. | |
2. prep. about, concerning, over, at (in reference to) | |
Die ganze Klasse lachte über ihren Witz. - The entire class laughed at her joke. | |
3. prep. (accusative) via, through, by way of | |
Der Zug fährt über den Hauptbahnhof. - The train goes via the main station. | |
Ich kaufe alles über das Internet. - I buy everything through the internet. | |
4. prep. (accusative) across | |
Ich fahre mit der Fähre über die Ostsee. - I travel on the ferry across the Baltic Sea. | |
5. prep. (accusative) during, for, over a time period | |
Es regnete über das Wochenende. - It rained over the weekend. | |
Er hat uns über Jahre belogen. - He's lied to us for years. | |
6. prep. (accusative) about | |
Ich schreibe ein Buch über Goethes Leben. - I'm writing a book about Goethe's life. | |
7. prep. around, among | |
8. prep. over, more than, above (a quantity) | |
9. prep. beyond | |
Die technischen Probleme in der Welt von heute gehen weit über den Rahmen des Technischen hinaus. - The technological problems in today's world extend far beyond the scope of technology. | |
10. prep. at (when 'over' or 'about' could roughly be substituted) | |
11. adj. (tlb, colloquial) left over, remaining, (replaces übrig in all its predicative instances, including those lexicalized as verb prefixoids.) | |
überbleiben - to be left over, to remain | |
Hier sind noch zwei Gurken über. Willst du die haben? - Here there are two gherkins left. Wanna have em? | |
12. adv. over (in certain select phrases) | |
über und über - over and over | |
13. post. (following accusative) throughout | |
Den ganzen Tag über. - Throughout the entire day. | |
die |
1. art. feminine singular of der | |
die Frau - the woman | |
2. art. plural of der | |
die Männer - the men | |
3. pron. feminine singular of der | |
4. pron. plural of der | |
5. pron. (in a subordinate clause as a relative pronoun) that; which; who; whom; whose | |
Ich kenne eine Frau, die das kann. - I know a woman who can do that. | |
6. pron. (as a demonstrative pronoun) this one; that one; these ones; those ones; she; her; it; they; them | |
die da - that one/she/they there | |
der |
1. art. the | |
2. art. feminine singular of der | |
3. art. genitive plural of der | |
4. pron. who; that; which | |
Ich kenne einen Mann, der das kann. - I know a man who can do that. | |
5. pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) whom, which, that | |
6. pron. (attributive, stressed) that | |
Der Mann war es! - It was that man! | |
7. pron. (indicative) him, he | |
Der hat es getan! - It was him who did it! | |
8. pron. (differential) the one, him | |
Der mit dem Mantel - The one with the coat | |
9. pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) that, (to) her | |
Straßen |
1. n. plural of Straße | |
Straße |
1. n-f. street; road (a way wide enough to be passable for vehicles, generally paved, in or outside a settlement) | |
Das Kind überquerte die Straße. - The child crossed the street. | |
Diese Straße führt nach Kirchdorf. - This road goes to Kirchdorf. | |
Die Straße ist für den Verkehr gesperrt. - The street is closed for traffic. | |
2. n-f. carriageway (the part of a road or street used by vehicles, excluding the pavement, etc.) | |
3. n-f. (figuratively) public, any area accessible to anyone | |
4. n-f. (figuratively) general public, using the locale to describe people not part of a specific group | |
5. n-f. the streets, areas or groups of people of no income or criminal affiliation, or the leading of a life associated with these | |
6. n-f. strait (channel of water) | |
7. n-f. (poker) straight | |
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 | |
Ziehen |
1. n. gerund of ziehen | |
2. v. to pull (e.g., a door handle); to drag (+aux, haben) | |
3. v. to draw (e.g. a weapon); to extract; to puff (+aux, haben) | |
4. v. to draw (a conclusion, lesson, etc.) (+aux, haben) | |
5. v. (impersonal, intransitive) to be drafty; there to be a draft (current of air) | |
Es zieht. - There’s a draft. | |
6. v. to move; to migrate (+aux, sein) | |
Ich ziehe nach Hamburg, aber mein Bruder zieht in eine andere Stadt. - I'm moving to Hamburg, but my brother is moving to another city. | |
7. v. to roam; to head (+aux, sein) | |
8. v. to stretch; to warp (+aux, haben) | |
zeihen |
1. v. (ditransitive, dated, or elevated, accusative + genitive,) to accuse, to blame somebody (of) | |
Niemand kann mich einer Lüge zeihen. - Nobody can accuse me of a lie. | |
Selbst seinen Dienern traut er nicht, / zeiht seine Engel noch des Irrtums. - Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error. | |
Schritt |
1. n. step, footstep (a single instance of walking) | |
2. n. walk (slow gait of a horse) | |
3. n. crotch (the area between the human legs close to the genitals or comprising them) | |
4. n. a pace (any of several obsolete linear measures about as long as a man steps, that is about 70–80 cm) | |
5. n. any imaginary measure that is likened in its partitioning to the distance traveled by a leg moving forward in its single footsteps | |
Er war uns einige Schritte voraus. - He was a few steps ahead of us. | |
Leg einen Schritt zu! - Faster! | |
6. n. step, move, stage (the part of a measure in the sense of an action one takes) | |
Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, sind folgende Schritte durchzuführen: - To reach this end, the following steps need to be performed: | |
beim ersten Schritt. - in the first step. | |
7. n. ellipsis of Schrittgeschwindigkeit | |
Fahren Sie Schritt! - Drive as fast as a pedestrian walks! | |
8. v. first-person singular preterite of schreiten | |
9. v. third-person singular preterite of schreiten | |
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 | |
Schritt |
1. n. step, footstep (a single instance of walking) | |
2. n. walk (slow gait of a horse) | |
3. n. crotch (the area between the human legs close to the genitals or comprising them) | |
4. n. a pace (any of several obsolete linear measures about as long as a man steps, that is about 70–80 cm) | |
5. n. any imaginary measure that is likened in its partitioning to the distance traveled by a leg moving forward in its single footsteps | |
Er war uns einige Schritte voraus. - He was a few steps ahead of us. | |
Leg einen Schritt zu! - Faster! | |
6. n. step, move, stage (the part of a measure in the sense of an action one takes) | |
Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, sind folgende Schritte durchzuführen: - To reach this end, the following steps need to be performed: | |
beim ersten Schritt. - in the first step. | |
7. n. ellipsis of Schrittgeschwindigkeit | |
Fahren Sie Schritt! - Drive as fast as a pedestrian walks! | |
8. v. first-person singular preterite of schreiten | |
9. v. third-person singular preterite of schreiten | |
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) | |
Ihren |
1. pron. (possessive) masculine accusative singular of Ihr | |
2. pron. (possessive) dative plural of Ihr | |
3. det. masculine accusative singular of ihr: her, its, their i;referring to a masculine object in the accusative case, or a plural object in the dative case | |
4. det. dative plural of ihr: her, its, their i;referring to a masculine object in the accusative case, or a plural object in the dative case | |
ihr |
1. pron. you, ye (plural, familiar) | |
2. pron. dative of sie | |
Hast du ihr das Buch gegeben? - Did you give her the book? | |
3. det. her (possessive) | |
Laura hat mir ihr neues Auto gezeigt. - Laura showed me her new car. | |
Die Katze spielt oft mit ihren Spielsachen. - The cat often plays with her toys. | |
4. det. its (when the owning object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine) | |
die Sonne und ihre Wärme - the sun and its warmth | |
5. det. their | |
Die Kinder spielen mit ihrem Hund. - The kids are playing with their dog. | |
die Wolken und ihre Schönheit - the clouds and their beauty | |
fahlen |
1. adj. form of fahl | |
fahl |
1. adj. (of light) pale; faint | |
2. adj. (of skin) sallow; pale (discoloured due to sickness, shock, etc.) | |
3. adj. (of animal hair, chiefly horses) pale; dun-coloured | |
4. adj. (obsolete, of human hair) fair; blond | |
schmutzigen |
1. adj. form of schmutzig | |
schmutzig |
1. adj. dirty, filthy, grimy | |
2. adj. (figurative) shameless, obscene | |
3. adj. (dialectal, of food) fatty, fat | |
Schmutziger Donnerstag - Fat Thursday | |
Uniformen |
1. n. plural of Uniform | |
Uniform |
1. n-f. uniform (distinctive outfit as a means of identifying members of a group) | |
die |
1. art. feminine singular of der | |
die Frau - the woman | |
2. art. plural of der | |
die Männer - the men | |
3. pron. feminine singular of der | |
4. pron. plural of der | |
5. pron. (in a subordinate clause as a relative pronoun) that; which; who; whom; whose | |
Ich kenne eine Frau, die das kann. - I know a woman who can do that. | |
6. pron. (as a demonstrative pronoun) this one; that one; these ones; those ones; she; her; it; they; them | |
die da - that one/she/they there | |
der |
1. art. the | |
2. art. feminine singular of der | |
3. art. genitive plural of der | |
4. pron. who; that; which | |
Ich kenne einen Mann, der das kann. - I know a man who can do that. | |
5. pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) whom, which, that | |
6. pron. (attributive, stressed) that | |
Der Mann war es! - It was that man! | |
7. pron. (indicative) him, he | |
Der hat es getan! - It was him who did it! | |
8. pron. (differential) the one, him | |
Der mit dem Mantel - The one with the coat | |
9. pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) that, (to) her | |
Grauen |
1. n. (gerund of grauen); horror | |
Das Grauen, das im Verborgenen lauert. - The horror that lurks in the shadows. | |
2. v. (impersonal, + dative) to cause terror | |
Mir graut es schon vor der Prüfung. - I am already terrified by the exam. | |
3. v. to be terrified | |
Ich graue mich vor der morgigen Prüfung. - I am already terrified by tomorrow's exam. | |
4. v. to break | |
5. v. to become grey | |
Sein Fell graut. - His fur is turning grey. | |
6. adj. form of grau | |
grau |
1. adj. grey, gray | |
Kolonnen |
1. n. plural of Kolonne | |
Kolonne |
1. n-f. (military) column (group of military vehicles or troops, especially on a road) | |
2. n-f. (by extension) any group of vehicles travelling together | |
3. n-f. (by extension) group of workers | |
4. n-f. (chemistry) fractionating column | |
5. n-f. (printing) Alternative form of Kolumne, t=column, body of text | |