von |
1. prep. from | |
Ich fahre von Köln nach Hamburg. - I'm travelling from Cologne to Hamburg. | |
Ich hab’s von meiner Schwester gehört. - I heard it from my sister. | |
2. prep. of, belonging to (often replacing genitive; see usage note below) | |
das Auto meines Vaters - - = uxi = uxi, das Auto von meinem Vater, my father’s car / the car of my father | |
3. prep. by (with passive voice) | |
Das Hotel wird von der Firma bezahlt. - The hotel is paid for by the company. | |
4. prep. about, of (a topic) | |
Er hat von seiner Jugend erzählt. - He told about his youth. | |
5. prep. on, with (a resource) | |
Von welchem Geld soll ich als Arbeitsloser in Urlaub fahren? - Being unemployed, on what money should I go on holidays? | |
Man kann nicht nur von Luft und Liebe leben. - You can’t live on air and love alone. (proverb) | |
Einer |
1. n-m. (mathematics) unit | |
2. n-m. (mathematics) units' place, ones' place (place value of a number) | |
3. n-m. (sports) single scull | |
4. n-m. (swimming) one-meter diving board | |
5. num. feminine singular of ein | |
6. art. feminine singular of ein | |
7. pron. one | |
8. pron. someone, somebody | |
9. pron. feminine singular of einer | |
dunklen |
1. adj. form of dunkel | |
Farbe |
1. n-f. colour | |
2. n-f. paint | |
3. n-f. dye, colourant for hair | |
4. n-f. suit (playing cards) | |
5. n-f. (heraldry) tincture | |
zwischen |
1. prep. between | |
die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich - the gap between the poor and rich | |
2. prep. among, amongst | |
Rot |
1. n. the colour red | |
2. n. (heraldry) gules; red in heraldry | |
3. n. the suit hearts in German playing cards | |
4. adj. red (colour) | |
5. adj. (politics, relational) red (pertaining to Marxism in the widest sense); social democratic; socialist; communist | |
6. adj. (politics, Germany, in particular, relational) of the social democratic SPD or the more rigidly socialist Linke | |
7. adj. (possibly mildly offensive) red-haired | |
8. adj. (historical, possibly offensive) redskin; Native American; Indian | |
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? | |
Blau |
1. n. the colour blue (as a whole) | |
2. n. a particular tone of blue | |
3. n. (heraldry) azure; blue in heraldry | |
4. n. (generally un) a vast blue area, especially: | |
5. n. the sky | |
Wir jagen mit tausend Sachen durch das weite Blau. - We’re racing through the wide blue at 1000 km/h. | |
6. n. the sea | |
7. adj. blue | |
8. adj. drunk | |
9. adj. bruised | |
blauer Fleck - bruise (literally, blue spot) | |
blaues Auge - black eye | |