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Kinder
     1. en:children
     2. n. plural of Kind
     Kind
          1. n. kid; child (young person)
          2. n. child; offspring (person with regard to his or her parents; also a baby animal or young animal, especially as the second component in numerous compound nouns)
                Er war das zweitgeborene Kind in der Familie. - He was the second-born child in the family.
                Er ist das Kind zweier blinder Eltern. - He is the child of two blind parents.
lutschten
     1. v. first-person plural preterite of lutschen
     2. v. third-person plural preterite of lutschen
     3. v. first-person plural subjunctive of lutschen
     4. v. third-person plural subjunctive of lutschen
     lutschen
          1. v. to suck; to keep something in one's mouth while licking it constantly, as done with lollipops or hard candies
Eis
     1. n. ice
     2. n. ice cream
     3. n. (music) E sharp
     4. n. genitive singular of Ei
     5. v. singular imperative of eisen
     6. v. colloquial of
     Ei
          1. n. egg (all biological senses)
                Willst du dein Ei hart oder weich? - Do you want your egg hard-boiled or soft-boiled?
                Das befruchtete Ei nistet sich in der Gebärmutter ein. - The fertilised egg nidates in the uterus.
          2. n. something egg-shaped
          3. n. (informal usually in the plural) testicle; ball (also figuratively)
                Mal sehen, ob ihr Eier habt! - Let’s see if you guys have balls!
          4. n. (colloquial in the plural) bucks (money)
                Kost’ dreißig Eier, der Spaß. - This thing costs thirty bucks.
          5. n. (colloquial usually vocative mildly pejorative) clown; foolish bloke
                Da steht „ziehen“, du Ei. - The sign says “pull”, you clown.
und
     1. conj. (co-ordinating) and
           Kaffee und Kuchen - coffee and cake
           Ich kam, sah und siegte. - I came, saw, and conquered.
     2. conj. (colloquial) links two nouns, often a person and an activity, in rhetoric questions to express an opposition between them
           Er und Abwaschen? Vielleicht einmal im Jahr! - Him doing the dishes? Maybe once per year!
     3. interj. so?, now?, and?
           Und? Wie ist es gelaufen? - So? How did it go?
tollten
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.
den
     1. art. masculine accusative singular of der
     2. art. dative plural of der
     3. pron. that; whom; masculine accusative singular of der
Bürgersteig
     1. n. (especially, Germany) pavement , sidewalk (footpath at the side of a street, road)
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