Messer |
1. n-n. knife | |
2. n-m. agent noun of messen | |
3. n-m. measurer, surveyor | |
4. n-m. gauge, meter | |
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? | |
Bürsten |
1. n. plural of Bürste | |
2. v. to scrub; to clean a surface with a brush (but not usually teeth, for which putzen) | |
Die Kacheln müsste ich mal richtig bürsten. - I have to properly brush these tiles sometime. | |
3. v. to brush (hair) | |
Ich bürste dir kurz die Haare. - I’ll brush your hair quickly. | |
4. v. to brush someone’s hair (should be used with caution in some contexts because of the vulgar sense below) | |
Ich bürste dich kurz. - I’ll brush you quickly. | |
5. v. to brush one’s own hair | |
Ich bürste mich kurz. - I’ll brush my hair quickly. | |
6. v. to fuck, have sex with | |
Bürste |
1. n-f. brush | |
sind |
1. v. first-person plural present of sein | |
Wir sind hier drüben. - We are over here. | |
2. v. third-person plural present of sein | |
Da sind sie. - There they are. | |
3. v. second-person plural present of sein | |
Wo sind Sie? - Where are you? (polite form) | |
sein |
1. v. (copulative, with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to be | |
Das ist schön. - That is beautiful. | |
Das ist ein Auto. - That is a car. | |
2. v. (with a dative object and certain adjectives) to feel, (to experience a condition) | |
Usage: In this sense sein is always conjugated in the third person singular and takes a Dative noun. The impersonal subject es may be present, but is often taken as implied. For example: "Mir i | |
Ist dir kalt? - Are you cold? | |
Mir ist schlecht. - I'm sick. | |
Dem Mann ist schwindelig. - The man feels dizzy. | |
Den Kindern ist langweilig. - The children are bored. | |
3. v. (with a dative object and nach or danach, sometimes with zumute) to feel like, to be in the mood for | |
Usage: As in the previous sense sein takes a Dative noun and is always conjugated according to the impersonal subject es, although it is usually omitted. | |
Uns ist nach einem Film zumute. - We feel like watching a movie. | |
Mir ist nicht danach. - I don't feel like it. | |
4. v. (auxiliary) forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain intransitive verbs | |
Er ist alt geworden. - He has become old. | |
5. v. to exist; there to be; to be alive | |
Was nicht ist, kann noch werden. (a common proverb) - That which does not exist now, may come into existence. | |
Wenn ich nicht mehr bin, erbst du das Haus. - When I am no more, you'll inherit the house. | |
6. v. to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.) | |
Du bist. - It’s your turn. | |
Du bist nach mir. - Your turn is after mine. | |
7. v. to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag | |
Du bist! - You're it! | |
Ich bin nicht mehr. - I'm not it anymore. | |
8. det. his | |
Daniel schickt seiner Schwester eine SMS. - Daniel is sending a text to his sister. | |
Der Kater spielt oft mit seinen Spielsachen. - The cat often plays with his toys. | |
9. det. its (agreeing with a masculine or neuter noun) | |
der Mond und sein Licht - the moon and its light | |
das Schaf und seine Lämmer - the sheep and its lambs | |
10. det. (informal) Used to express an approximate number, often with so. | |
Der kostet so seine zweihundert Euro. - That one costs around two hundred euros. | |
11. det. one's | |
Man muss seinem Herzen folgen. - One must follow one’s heart. | |
derzeit |
1. adv. at this time, currently, nowadays | |
2. adv. at that time, then | |
Klaus |
1. Proper noun. given name, male, from=de:Nikolaus | |
2. Proper noun. (rfv, for plural Klaus. (Notice that there is also Klausen)) | |
3. n-f. kloyz (private house of study, small synagogue) | |
Mißlers |
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Verbündete |
1. n. ally | |
2. v. first-person singular preterite of verbünden | |
3. v. third-person singular preterite of verbünden | |
4. v. first-person singular subjunctive of verbünden | |
5. v. third-person singular subjunctive of verbünden | |