| für |
| 1. prep. for | |
| Das Geschenk ist für dich. - The present is for you. | |
| 2. prep. in favor of, in support of | |
| Ich bin für die erste Option. - I'm in favor of the first option. | |
| 3. prep. by the standards of | |
| Für einen Ausländer sprichst du sehr gut Deutsch. - For a foreigner, you speak German very well. | |
| 4. prep. on behalf of | |
| Mein Anwalt wird das für mich beantworten. - My lawyer will answer to that on my behalf. | |
| 5. prep. kind / type of | |
| Was für ein Kuchen ist das? - What kind of cake is this? | |
| 6. prep. (informal) instead of | |
| Für die Hose hab ich jetzt den Rock genommen. - Instead of the trousers which I chose not to buy, I took the skirt. | |
| 7. prep. (colloquial nonstandard) in order to (with zu and infinitive) | |
| Der Papa holt das Werkzeug, für die Waschmaschine zu reparieren. - Daddy is getting his tools in order to repair the washing machine. | |
| Film |
| 1. n. film (a thin layer of some substance) | |
| 2. n. (photography) photographic film | |
| 3. n. motion picture | |
| 4. v. singular imperative of filmen | |
| 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? | |
| Fernsehen |
| 1. n. television | |
| 2. v. to watch television | |
| wird |
| 1. v. third-person singular present of werden | |
| werden |
| 1. v. (auxiliary) will; to be going (to do something); forms the future tense | |
| Ich werde nach Hause gehen. - I will go home. | |
| 2. v. (auxiliary) would; forms the subjunctive tense of most verbs | |
| 3. v. (auxiliary) to be done; forms the passive voice | |
| Das Buch wird gerade gelesen. (present tense) - The book is being read. | |
| Ich wurde in Europa geboren. (preterite tense) - I was born in Europe. | |
| Er war geschlagen worden. (past perfect tense) - He had been beaten. | |
| 4. v. (copulative, past participle geworden) to become; to get; to grow; to turn | |
| Es wird heißer. - It's getting hotter. | |
| 5. v. (with a dative object and certain adjectives) to begin or come to feel or experience (a condition) | |
| Usage: In this sense werden 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. (See the usage no | |
| Wird dir kalt? - Are you getting cold? | |
| Den Kindern wird langweilig. - The children are getting bored. | |
| Von Mayonnaise wird mir schlecht. - Mayonnaise makes me sick. (Literally: From mayonnaise I become sick.) | |
| 6. v. (copulative, colloquial) to be, to happen, to occur (in the future) | |
| Wir werden zusammen glücklich. - We will be happy together. | |
| Was wird aus mir? - What will become of me? | |
| 7. v. (colloquial) to be going to work | |
| Das wird so nichts. - It will not work like that. | |
| Andere |
| 1. n. : the other / different one (female) | |
| 2. adj. form of anderer, e | |
| die andere Hand - the other hand | |
| das andere Geschlecht - the opposite sex | |
| Schminke |
| 1. n-f. make-up | |
| Ich gehe immer ohne Schminke zur Arbeit. - I always go to work with no make-up on. | |
| 2. v. first-person singular present of schminken | |
| 3. v. singular imperative of schminken | |
| 4. v. first-person singular subjunctive of schminken | |
| 5. v. third-person singular subjunctive of schminken | |
| benutzt |
| 1. Participle. past participle of benutzen; used | |
| 2. v. second-person singular present of benutzen | |
| 3. v. third-person singular present of benutzen | |
| 4. v. second-person plural present of benutzen | |
| 5. v. plural imperative of benutzen | |
| benutzen |
| 1. v. to use (employ, apply) | |
| Als |
| 1. n. creek, drainage channel | |
| 2. conj. (subordinating, referring to time of occurrence) at (approximately) the same moment; when; while; as | |
| Als er ankam, öffnete sie die Tür. - When he arrived, she opened the door. | |
| Als wir jung waren, spielten wir im Wald. - We played in the forest when we were young. | |
| 3. conj. (used with a comparison or as an exception) than | |
| Zwei ist größer als eins. - Two is greater than one. | |
| Die Kopie sieht anders aus als das Original. - The copy looks different than the original. | |
| Er sagt nichts anderes als die Wahrheit. - He tells nothing other than the truth. | |
| 4. conj. as; like; in the function of; in the form of | |
| Als Polizist muss ich es tun. - As a policeman, I must do it. | |
| Wir sind Feinde, aber im Moment müssen wir uns als Freunde verhalten. - We are enemies, but for now we must act like friends. | |
| Sie verkleidete sich als Krankenschwester, um das Krankenhaus zu betreten. - She disguised herself as a nurse to enter the hospital. | |
| 5. conj. as if | |
| 6. conj. (after negative pronoun) but, other than | |
| Normal |
| 1. n-n. (science) standard, normal | |
| 2. adj. ordinary, normal | |
| völlig normal. - completely normal. | |
| 3. adv. (standard) ordinarily, normally, in a normal fashion | |
| Er hat sich ganz normal benommen. - He behaved quite normally. | |
| 4. adv. (colloquial) Alternative form of normalerweise: usually, normally, in general | |
| Normal geh ich früh ins Bett. - I normally go to bed early. | |
| 5. interj. (colloquial) sure, of course, obviously; (usually implies that something is trivial) | |
| Du hast mit zwölf schon geraucht? ― Normal. - You already smoked at twelve? ― Sure. | |
