| 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? | |
| dann |
| 1. adv. then, after that | |
| Ich ziehe mich erst an, dann frühstücke ich. - First I'm getting dressed, then I'll have breakfast. | |
| 2. adv. then, in that case | |
| Wenn du dich anstrengst, dann schaffst du es. - If you make an effort, then you'll be able to do it. | |
| sahen |
| 1. v. first-person plural preterite of sehen | |
| 2. v. third-person plural 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. | |
| wir |
| 1. pron. we | |
| nur |
| 1. adv. only, just, merely, simply | |
| Nur reife Kirschen dürfen auf den Kuchen. - Only ripe cherries may go on the cake. | |
| Du musst nur die Werte eingeben und den Rest macht der Computer. - You just have to enter the values and the computer will do the rest. | |
| 2. adv. ever; at all | |
| Ich helfe dir, wo ich nur kann. - I’ll help you wherever I can. | |
| 3. adv. however, though | |
| Wir könnten es versuchen. Nur wären die Risiken sehr hoch. - We could try. The risks would be very high, however. | |
| 4. conj. (chiefly colloquial) but | |
| Ich wär auf jeden Fall dabei, nur ich hab echt keine Zeit. - I’d definitely come along, but I really don’t have the time. | |
| noch |
| 1. adv. still, yet (up to and including a given time) | |
| Du magst mich noch. - You still like me. | |
| Ich bin noch nicht fertig. - I’m not ready yet. | |
| 2. adv. yet, eventually (at an unknown time in the future) | |
| Er wird noch kommen. - He will come eventually. | |
| Das brauche ich später noch. - I'll need that sometime. | |
| 3. adv. additionally, in addition, besides, else; (more often expressed in English with) another, more | |
| Da ist noch einer. - There’s another one. | |
| Da sind noch welche. - There are some more. | |
| Ich habe noch Schokolade im Auto. - I have some more chocolate in the car. | |
| Weißt du noch was? - Can you think of anything else? | |
| 4. adv. (only) just; barely (by a small margin) | |
| Ich habe es gerade noch geschafft. - I made it just in time. | |
| 5. adv. (with comparative) even | |
| Deins ist noch schöner! - Yours is even prettier! | |
| 6. conj. (following a negation, especially weder) nor; function word introducing each except the first term or series, indicating none of them is true | |
| Ich mag weder ihn noch dich. - I like neither him nor you. | |
| Er versteht es nicht noch wird er es jemals verstehen. - He doesn’t understand it, nor will he ever understand it. | |
| seine |
| 1. pron. feminine singular of seiner | |
| 2. pron. plural of seiner | |
| 3. det. feminine singular of sein | |
| 4. det. plural of sein | |
| 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. | |
| Stange |
| 1. n-f. pole; bar; rod; post (a long stick, usually round and of metal, but also of other material, especially when fixed somewhere) | |
| 2. n-f. small straight glass for beer (especially Kölsch) | |
| 3. n-f. (of cigarettes) carton (lengthy box containing several packets) | |
| 4. n-f. (colloquial) a lot (especially of money); a packet | |
| eine Stange Geld - a lot of money | |
| 5. n-f. (in von der Stange or compounds) run-of-the-mill, chiefly with clothes (referring to the poles on which clothes are presented in large fashion shops) | |
| Stangenkleidung ist mir nicht individuell genug. - I find run-of-the-mill garments lacking in individuality. | |
| 6. n-f. (Austria, sports) crossbar (the bar which conjoins two goalposts) | |
