| da |
| 1. adv. (local) there; here | |
| Wir fahren nach Hamburg. Meine Frau hat eine Freundin, die da wohnt. - We’re going to Hamburg. My wife has a friend who lives there. | |
| Die Gäste sind noch nicht da. - The guests aren’t here yet. | |
| 2. adv. (temporal) then; so; at that moment | |
| Ich war gerade eingeschlafen, und da kam ein Anruf. - I had just fallen asleep, and that’s when someone called. | |
| Er hat immer weiter auf mich eingeschrien. Da bin ich einfach gegangen. - He just kept on shouting at me. So I just left. | |
| 3. adv. (colloquial) (replaces any takes a reflexive pronoun adverb when the context is clear) | |
| Ich wollte eigentlich Linsensuppe machen, aber da (= dafür, dazu) hatte ich das Rezept nicht. | |
| I was actually going to make lentil soup, but I didn’t have the recipe for it. | |
| Wir haben jetzt ein Angebot gekriegt, aber da (= darüber) müssen wir noch diskutieren. | |
| We’ve now received an offer, but we’ll still need to have discussion about that. | |
| 4. conj. since; as; because; given that | |
| Da die Stelle mit häufigen Auslandskontakten verbunden ist, sind gute Fremdsprachenkenntnisse unerlässlich. - Since the position involves frequent international contacts, good foreign-language | |
| 5. conj. (literary, dated) when | |
| Am Tag, da die Wahrheit offenbar wird, ist es zur Umkehr zu spät. - On the day when the Truth will become manifest, it will be too late for penitence. | |
| sah |
| 1. v. first-person singular preterite of sehen | |
| 2. v. third-person singular preterite of sehen | |
| sehen |
| 1. v. to see; to have sight | |
| Er sieht nicht gut. - He doesn’t see well. | |
| 2. v. to see (something); to perceive by vision | |
| 3. v. to realize; to notice; to see; to find out | |
| 4. v. to meet (somebody); to meet up; to see; (butnot in the sense of “pay a visit to”, nor as a euphemism for having a romantic or sexual relation) | |
| Siehst du den Markus noch? - Do you still see Markus? (Do you meet him regularly? Are you still friends with him?) | |
| 5. v. to look at; to watch; (the construction with nach often implies a turning of the head; other prepositions can be used depending on the context) | |
| auf/nach etwas sehen - to look at something | |
| 6. v. to check on; to look after; to see to (+preo, nach) | |
| Hast du in letzter Zeit nach dem Baby gesehen? - Have you seen to the baby recently? | |
| 7. v. to decide spontaneously and/or by personal preference; to wait and see | |
| Das werden wir dann sehen. - We’ll see then. / We’ll play it by ear. | |
| Soll ich Nudeln oder Pizza nehmen? — Das musst du selber sehen. - Should I take pasta or pizza? — You’ll have to decide for yourself. | |
| Ich |
| 1. n. (psychoanalysis) ego | |
| 2. n. self, me, him, etc. | |
| das wahre Ich - the real me | |
| 3. pron. I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun) | |
| eine |
| 1. num. feminine singular of ein | |
| 2. art. feminine singular of ein: a, an | |
| 3. pron. feminine singular of einer | |
| 4. pron. masculine nominative singular of einer | |
| 5. pron. singular of einer | |
| Katze |
| 1. n-f. house cat, Felis silvestris catus | |
| 2. n-f. (specifically) female house cat | |
| 3. n-f. cat (any member of the genus Felis) | |
| 4. n-f. (constellation, historic) the obsolete constellation Felis | |
| 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. | |
| Vier |
| 1. n-f. four (digit or figure 4) | |
| 2. num. (cardinal) four (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 4; or describing a set with four elements) | |
| Affen |
| 1. n. plural of Affe | |
| 2. n. accusative singular of Affe | |
| 3. n. dative singular of Affe | |
| 4. n. genitive singular of Affe | |
| Affe |
| 1. n. ellipsis of Fellaffe, a kind of furry military knapsack | |
| 2. n. (slang) drunkenness, alcohol intoxication | |
| im |
| 1. contraction. contraction of in dem ; in the | |
| 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) | |
| dem |
| 1. art. dative singular of der: the | |
| 2. pron. dative singular of der: to whom, to which | |
| Bau |
| 1. n. building, construction (the act of constructing) | |
| 2. n. building site, construction site (place where such constructing takes place) | |
| 3. n. building, construction, edifice (built-up structure, house) | |
| 4. n. burrow (of an animal, especially under ground) | |
| 5. n. (colloquial) prison, jail | |
| 6. v. singular imperative of bauen | |
| Verschwinden |
| 1. n. disappearance | |
| 2. n. gerund of verschwinden | |
| 3. v. to disappear, to vanish, to move out of view | |
| Die Sonne verschwindet hinter Wolken. - The sun is disappearing behind clouds. | |
| 4. v. to leave, to go away | |
| Ich verschwinde jetzt besser. - I'd better be going now. | |
