| Ehe |
| 1. n-f. marriage (state of being married; life as a married couple) | |
| 2. conj. before, ere | |
| 3. conj. rather than | |
| dass |
| 1. conj. (subordinating) that | |
| Ich habe gehört, dass du krank bist. - I was told that you are sick. | |
| 2. conj. (subordinating, chiefly colloquial) so that | |
| Beeil dich, dass wir bald losfahren können. - Hurry up so that we can take off soon. | |
| 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) | |
| friere |
| 1. v. first-person singular present of frieren | |
| 2. v. first-person singular subjunctive of frieren | |
| 3. v. third-person singular subjunctive of frieren | |
| 4. v. singular imperative of frieren | |
| frieren |
| 1. v. to be cold, feel cold (+aux, haben) (unlike English freeze) neither informal nor expressing extreme cold | |
| Frierst du? - Are you cold? | |
| Meine Hände frieren. - My hands are cold. | |
| 2. v. (dated, or southern, transitive, of body parts, or impersonal of living beings) to be cold, feel cold +aux, haben | |
| Friert es dich? - Are you cold? | |
| Die Hände frieren mich. - My hands are cold. | |
| 3. v. to freeze, be freezing, be below 0 degrees celsius (+aux, haben) | |
| Heute Nacht soll es frieren. - It’s going to freeze tonight. | |
| 4. v. synonym of gefrieren, t=to freeze, become hard through cold +aux, sein | |
| wickle |
| 1. v. first-person singular present of wickeln | |
| 2. v. singular imperative of wickeln | |
| 3. v. first-person singular subjunctive of wickeln | |
| 4. v. third-person singular subjunctive of wickeln | |
| wickeln |
| 1. v. to wrap, wind around, coil | |
| (co, eine Decke um die Beine wickeln, to wrap a blanket around one’s legs) | |
| Ehe dass ich friere, wickle ich mich in den Vorgang da! | |
| 2. v. to swaddle (a baby); to change its nappy/diaper | |
| 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) | |
| mich |
| 1. pron. accusative of ich: me | |
| 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) | |
| den |
| 1. art. masculine accusative singular of der | |
| 2. art. dative plural of der | |
| 3. pron. that; whom; masculine accusative singular of der | |
| Vorgang |
| 1. n. process | |
| 2. n. event | |
| 3. n. sequence of events | |
| 4. n. stipulation | |
| 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. | |
