Sie |
1. pron. you (polite; singular and plural) | |
Was möchten Sie, Frau Wagner? - What would you like to have, Mrs. Wagner? | |
2. pron. she | |
Ist sie noch krank? - Is she still sick? | |
Das ist meine Katze. Sie heißt Lili. - This is my cat. Her name is Lili. | |
Ich suche Vanessa. Hast du sie gesehen? - I'm looking for Vanessa. Have you seen her? | |
3. pron. it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine die) | |
Scheint die Sonne noch? Nein, sie ist schon untergegangen. - Is the Sun still shining? No, it has already gone down. | |
Ich suche meine Brieftasche. Hast du sie gesehen? - I'm looking for my wallet. Have you seen it? | |
4. pron. he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is feminine die) | |
Die Geisel Richard Meier versuchte, sich zu befreien, aber sie schaffte es nicht. - The hostage Richard Meier tried to break free, but he didn’t succeed. | |
Die Wache Michael Müller beschädigte ihr Gewehr, wofür ihr Vorgesetzter sie bestrafte. - The guardsman Michael Müller damaged his rifle, and his supervisor punished him for that. | |
5. pron. they; them | |
es |
1. pron. Nominative and accusative neuter third-person singular personal pronoun | |
Wo ist das Buch? Es liegt auf dem Tisch. - Where's the book? It’s on the table. | |
Wo ist das Kind? Ich habe es. - Where is the child? I have it. | |
Welche Farbe hat das Pferd? Es ist weiß. - What color is the horse? It is white. | |
Ich bemerkte ein merkwürdiges bärtiges Individuum und beschloss, es im Auge zu behalten. - I remarked a strange bearded individual and decided to keep an eye on him. | |
Das Mädchen wusste nicht, dass es beobachtet wurde. - The girl didn’t know that she was being observed. | |
Jedes Vorstandsmitglied kann das Wort ergreifen, wenn es dies wünscht. - Any board member may take the floor if they so wish. | |
2. pron. (Impersonal pronoun used to refer to statements, activities, the environment etc., or as a placeholder/dummy pronoun) — it | |
Das kann es nicht geben. - This is nothing that could possibly exist. | |
Sie begann zu laufen, und ich tat es auch. - She began to run, and I did it also. | |
Es war einmal eine schöne Prinzessin. - There was once a beautiful princess. | |
Es ist gut zu leben! - It's good to be alive! | |
Es regnet. - It’s raining. | |
Es ist sicher, dass morgen die Sonne scheinen wird. - It's certain that the sun will shine tomorrow. | |
Wie geht es dir? - How are you doing? | |
Ich bin es, Michael. - It's me, Michael. | |
Es spielt das Fernsehorchester. - The television orchestra is playing. | |
Sie wird es noch weit bringen. - She is going to go far. | |
3. art. (regional, colloquial) alt form-lite, das | |
Soll ich es Fenster zumachen? - Should I close the window? | |
Nähte |
1. n. plural of Naht | |
2. v. first-person singular preterite of nähen | |
3. v. third-person singular preterite of nähen | |
4. v. first-person singular subjunctive of nähen | |
5. v. third-person singular subjunctive of nähen | |
nähen |
1. v. to sew | |
mir |
1. pron. personal dative of ich: me, to me: | |
Er gab es mir. - He gave it to me. | |
2. pron. (dialectal, or colloquial) Alternative form of wir, t=we | |
sogar |
1. adv. (usable with nouns, verbs or modifiers) even, actually, in fact | |
Sogar Karl kann es verstehen. - Even Karl can understand it. | |
Wir könnten sogar etwas Hilfe gebrauchen. - We could actually use some help here. | |
Es ist sogar einfach zu machen. - In fact, it's easy to do. | |
Mal |
1. n. time (as in the first time; many times) | |
2. n. occasion, case, occurrence | |
3. n. a mark on the body, e.g. a scar, mole, etc. | |
4. n. (chiefly in compounds) mark, sign in the landscape, e.g. a milestone | |
5. n. (ball games) base | |
6. adv. times (indicating multiplication of two numbers) | |
sechs mal sieben ist zweiundvierzig - six times seven is forty-two | |
7. adv. (informal) Alternative form of einmal, , sometime, ever, once, may serve to introduce a new information. | |
Wenn du in Köln bist, musst du mal bei deiner Tante anrufen. - When you’re in Cologne, you must call your aunt sometime. | |
Ich geh mal zum Kaffeestand. - I’m off to the coffee stall. | |
8. adv. (informal) Softening a sentence, thus making a request or command more polite. By extension, indicating a command or request. | |
Haben Sie mal Feuer? - Do you have a lighter please? | |
Haste Feuer? - D'ya have fire? | |
Du musst mal deine Tante anrufen. - You have to call your aunt. | |
9. v. singular imperative of malen | |
10. v. colloquial of | |
malen |
1. v. to paint (do paintwork) | |
2. v. to paint (create a painting) | |
3. v. (loosely) to draw, depict (with a pencil, computer program, etc.) | |
Weiße |
1. n. female equivalent of Weißer: white female, Caucasian female | |
2. n. one of a variety of beers, including the Bavarian weissbier, but especially the one called Berliner Weiße | |
3. n. plural of Weißer | |
4. n. nominative singular of Weißer | |
5. n. whiteness | |
6. n. (obsolete, or dialectal) Alternative form of Weizen | |
7. adj. form of weiß | |
8. v. first-person singular present of weißen | |
9. v. singular imperative of weißen | |
10. v. first-person singular subjunctive of weißen | |
11. v. third-person singular subjunctive of weißen | |
weiß |
1. adj. white | |
2. v. first-person singular present of wissen | |
ich - Ich weiß das bereits. | |
ich - Ich weiß nicht. | |
3. v. third-person singular present of wissen | |
er - Er weiß das bereits. | |
er - Er weiß nicht. | |
weißen |
1. v. to whiten | |
2. adj. form of weiß | |
Schlaghosen |
1. n. plural of Schlaghose | |
Aus |
1. n. (sports) an out; the end of play for an individual or a team | |
2. n. (sports) the out of bounds area | |
3. n. end | |
4. adv. out | |
5. adv. (with sein) over; finished; done; up | |
Das Spiel ist aus! - The game is up! | |
6. adj. (of a device) off | |
7. prep. out of; from (from the inside of something) | |
Hol das Besteck aus der Schublade! - Get the cutlery from the drawer! | |
8. prep. from (a place; see usage notes below) | |
Er kommt aus dem selben Dorf wie ich. - He’s from the same village as I am. | |
9. prep. of; made of; out of | |
ein Haus aus Eis - a house made of ice | |
10. prep. for; out of (because of a feeling or inner quality) | |
etwas aus Freundschaft tun - to do something out of friendship (i.e. a sense of friendship) | |
etwas aus Feigheit unterlassen - to neglect something out of cowardice | |
Vorhangstoff |
1. n. curtain fabric, curtain material | |
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? | |
dazu |
1. adv. in addition to it, in addition, besides | |
2. adv. for that purpose | |
3. adv. to it, to that | |
ein |
1. art. a, an | |
ein Mann - a man | |
eine Frau - a woman | |
ein Kind - a child | |
2. adv. (now chiefly in compounds) indicating (concrete or abstract/metaphorical) motion into something | |
ein und aus gehen, weder ein noch aus wissen | |
darein, derein, feldein, feldein, hafenein, hafenein, herein, herein, hierein, hierein, hinein, hinein, jahrein, jahrein, waldein, waldein (older spellings include Wald-ein), worein, wor | |
3. adj. (predicative) on | |
Ist der Schalter ein oder aus? (d. h., Ist der Schalter ein- oder ausgeschaltet?) - Is the switch on or off. (i.e., Is the switch switched on or off.) | |
tierisch |
1. adj. (relational) animal; beastly, brutal | |
2. adj. (slang) extremely | |
tierisch geil - extremely cool | |
buntes |
1. adj. form of bunt | |
bunt |
1. adj. (obsolete) spotted, speckled | |
2. adj. multi-colored; colorful; variegated | |
3. adj. (by extension) mixed, varied, heterogeneous | |
ein bunter Haufen - a motley crew | |
Hemd |
1. n. shirt, or in particular a dress shirt | |
mit |
1. prep. with (in the company of; alongside) | |
Ich spiele mit meinen Freunden. - I'm playing with my friends. | |
2. prep. with, by (using as an instrument; by means of) | |
Ich schreibe mit einem Bleistift. - I'm writing with a pencil. | |
Ich fahre mit dem Bus. - I'm going by bus. | |
3. prep. with (as an accessory to) | |
4. prep. with (having) | |
5. prep. at (with the age of) | |
6. prep. with, including, with ... included | |
7. adv. among; denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group | |
Hier gibt es mit das beste Essen in der Stadt. - Here they have some of the best food in town. | |
Ich war mit der erste, der hier war. - I was one of the very first who arrived. | |
8. adv. also, too (in addition; besides; as well) | |
9. adv. (somewhat, informal) with (something), with it | |
Ich brauch nicht unbedingt Majonäse zu den Fritten, aber mit sind sie natürlich besser. - I don't necessarily need mayonnaise with the chips, but they taste better with it, of course. | |
riesigem |
1. adj. form of riesig | |
riesig |
1. adj. gigantic, huge | |
Kragen |
1. n. collar | |
2. n. (obsolete, except in, fixed terms) neck | |