| 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. | |
| nimm ... an |
| 1. v. singular imperative of annehmen | |
| annehmen |
| 1. v. to assume, to suppose (as given) | |
| Mein Fehler. Ich nahm an, sie sei ledig. - My mistake. I assumed she was single. | |
| Es ist anzunehmen, dass... - It can be assumed that... | |
| 2. v. to take on, to assume (a role, form, etc.) | |
| Dieser Streit nimmt den Charakter eines Grenzkrieges an. - This dispute is taking on the character of a border war. | |
| Unser Plan nimmt allmählich Gestalt an. - Our plan is gradually taking shape. | |
| Sie hat einen neuen Namen angenommen. - She took on a new name. | |
| 3. v. to take care of, to take on (a duty, a responsibility) | |
| Kommissar Schneider nimmt sich des Falles an. - Commissioner Schneider is taking on the case. | |
| Eine Tante nahm sich seiner an. - An aunt took care of him. | |
| 4. v. to reach, to attain (some degree) | |
| Die Zahl der Diebstähle hat extreme Ausmaße angenommen. - The number of thefts has reached extreme proportions. | |
| 5. v. to accept (help, an offer, an invitation, a challenge, a gift, etc.) | |
| Ich habe das Stellenangebot angenommen. - I accepted the job offer. | |
| 6. v. to adopt (a child) | |
| 7. v. to be touched by; to care much about; to have oneself be impressed by; to feel responsible for | |
| Da nehm ich mir nix von an. - I don’t care much about that. | |
| die |
| 1. art. feminine singular of der | |
| die Frau - the woman | |
| 2. art. plural of der | |
| die Männer - the men | |
| 3. pron. feminine singular of der | |
| 4. pron. plural of der | |
| 5. pron. (in a subordinate clause as a relative pronoun) that; which; who; whom; whose | |
| Ich kenne eine Frau, die das kann. - I know a woman who can do that. | |
| 6. pron. (as a demonstrative pronoun) this one; that one; these ones; those ones; she; her; it; they; them | |
| die da - that one/she/they there | |
| der |
| 1. art. the | |
| 2. art. feminine singular of der | |
| 3. art. genitive plural of der | |
| 4. pron. who; that; which | |
| Ich kenne einen Mann, der das kann. - I know a man who can do that. | |
| 5. pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) whom, which, that | |
| 6. pron. (attributive, stressed) that | |
| Der Mann war es! - It was that man! | |
| 7. pron. (indicative) him, he | |
| Der hat es getan! - It was him who did it! | |
| 8. pron. (differential) the one, him | |
| Der mit dem Mantel - The one with the coat | |
| 9. pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) that, (to) her | |
| Kreide |
| 1. n-f. a chalk (a piece of chalk used for drawing and on a blackboard) | |
| 2. Proper noun. the Cretaceous | |
| 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? | |
| schreib |
| 1. v. singular imperative of schreiben | |
