| anders |
| 1. adv. different, differently | |
| Natürlich ist jeder Mensch und jede Situation anders. - Of course every person and every situation are different. | |
| 2. adv. else | |
| 3. adv. otherwise | |
| Würde |
| 1. n-f. dignity | |
| 2. v. first-person singular subjunctive of werden | |
| 3. v. third-person singular subjunctive 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. | |
| Ja |
| 1. n. a yes | |
| 2. adv. yes; yea, yeah, aye | |
| Willst du das? Ja. - Do you want that? Yes. | |
| Aber ja! - Yes, of course! | |
| 3. adv. (intensifier) obviously; certainly; of course; really; just; as you know; as is generally known (indicates and emphasises that one is expressing a known fact) | |
| Es kann ja nicht immer so bleiben. - It obviously cannot always remain so. | |
| Der Peter war ja gestern krank. - Peter was sick yesterday, as you know. | |
| 4. interj. yes | |
| viel |
| 1. pron. much, a lot | |
| Es ist viel passiert. - Much has happened. | |
| 2. det. much, many | |
| Er hat viel Geld verloren. - He lost a lot of money. | |
| 3. det. In the singular, the adjective is usually left unchanged when it is not preceded by an article or determiner (see example sentence above). Otherwise it is declined like a normal adjective: das viele | |
| 4. det. In the plural, the adjective is usually declined even without a preceding article or determiner: viele Kinder. However, it may be left unchanged when modified by a preceding adverb, e.g. in the combi | |
| 5. det. The comparative form mehr is invariable and never declined; it cannot be preceded by any article or determiner (note however mehrere, mehreres, and obsolete mehre, mehr | |
| 6. adv. much, a lot | |
| Wir haben viel gelacht. - We laughed a lot. | |
| Lieber |
| 1. n. dear | |
| 2. adj. comparative of lieb | |
| 3. adj. form of lieb | |
| (in a letter) Lieber Hans - Dear Johnny | |
| 4. adv. comparative of gern; rather, better, by preference | |
| Ich nehme lieber das Fahrrad als das Auto. - I would rather take the bicycle than the car. | |
| durch |
| 1. prep. by means of; by; through | |
| Das Haus wurde durch ein Feuer zerstört. - The house was destroyed by fire. | |
| 2. prep. through; entering, then exiting | |
| Wir wandern durch den Wald. - We're hiking through the forest. | |
| 3. prep. through (a period of time) | |
| Sie hat mir durch eine schwierige Zeit geholfen. - She helped me through a difficult period. | |
| 4. prep. via | |
| 5. prep. owing to; because of | |
| 6. prep. (mathematics) divided by | |
| 7. adv. during; throughout; through | |
| den ganzen Tag durch - the whole day through | |
| 8. adv. (colloquial with a time) past | |
| Es ist acht Uhr durch. - It is past eight o’clock. | |
| den |
| 1. art. masculine accusative singular of der | |
| 2. art. dative plural of der | |
| 3. pron. that; whom; masculine accusative singular of der | |
| Kofferraum |
| 1. n. boot, trunk (luggage storage compartment of a car) | |
| Das Schloss meines Kofferraumes ist defekt. - The lock of my trunk is defective. | |
| oder |
| 1. conj. or | |
| Danach alles gestr. oder noch 1–2 Wörter? - Is everything after that crossed out or are there one or two more words? | |
| 2. part. (tag question) right?; is it?; is it not? | |
| Es ist kalt heute, oder? - It’s cold today, isn’t it? | |
| Das war keine so gute Idee, oder? - That wasn’t such a good idea, was it? | |
| Du kommst aus Deutschland, oder? - You’re from Germany, aren’t you? | |
| durch |
| 1. prep. by means of; by; through | |
| Das Haus wurde durch ein Feuer zerstört. - The house was destroyed by fire. | |
| 2. prep. through; entering, then exiting | |
| Wir wandern durch den Wald. - We're hiking through the forest. | |
| 3. prep. through (a period of time) | |
| Sie hat mir durch eine schwierige Zeit geholfen. - She helped me through a difficult period. | |
| 4. prep. via | |
| 5. prep. owing to; because of | |
| 6. prep. (mathematics) divided by | |
| 7. adv. during; throughout; through | |
| den ganzen Tag durch - the whole day through | |
| 8. adv. (colloquial with a time) past | |
| Es ist acht Uhr durch. - It is past eight o’clock. | |
| ein |
| 1. art. a, an | |
| ein Mann - a man | |
| eine Frau - a woman | |
| ein Kind - a child | |
| 2. adv. (now chiefly in compounds) indicating (concrete or abstract/metaphorical) motion into something | |
| ein und aus gehen, weder ein noch aus wissen | |
| darein, derein, feldein, feldein, hafenein, hafenein, herein, herein, hierein, hierein, hinein, hinein, jahrein, jahrein, waldein, waldein (older spellings include Wald-ein), worein, wor | |
| 3. adj. (predicative) on | |
| Ist der Schalter ein oder aus? (d. h., Ist der Schalter ein- oder ausgeschaltet?) - Is the switch on or off. (i.e., Is the switch switched on or off.) | |
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| Einsteigen |
| 1. n. gerund of einsteigen | |
| 2. v. to get in or on (a vehicle) | |
| 3. v. to join (a company, team), to go into (a field of business) | |
