| Es |
| 1. n. (music) E-flat | |
| 2. n. (psychoanalysis) id | |
| 3. pron. Nominative and accusative neuter third-person singular personal pronoun | |
| Wo ist das Buch? Es liegt auf dem Tisch. - Where's the book? It’s on the table. | |
| Wo ist das Kind? Ich habe es. - Where is the child? I have it. | |
| Welche Farbe hat das Pferd? Es ist weiß. - What color is the horse? It is white. | |
| Ich bemerkte ein merkwürdiges bärtiges Individuum und beschloss, es im Auge zu behalten. - I remarked a strange bearded individual and decided to keep an eye on him. | |
| Das Mädchen wusste nicht, dass es beobachtet wurde. - The girl didn’t know that she was being observed. | |
| Jedes Vorstandsmitglied kann das Wort ergreifen, wenn es dies wünscht. - Any board member may take the floor if they so wish. | |
| 4. pron. (Impersonal pronoun used to refer to statements, activities, the environment etc., or as a placeholder/dummy pronoun) — it | |
| Das kann es nicht geben. - This is nothing that could possibly exist. | |
| Sie begann zu laufen, und ich tat es auch. - She began to run, and I did it also. | |
| Es war einmal eine schöne Prinzessin. - There was once a beautiful princess. | |
| Es ist gut zu leben! - It's good to be alive! | |
| Es regnet. - It’s raining. | |
| Es ist sicher, dass morgen die Sonne scheinen wird. - It's certain that the sun will shine tomorrow. | |
| Wie geht es dir? - How are you doing? | |
| Ich bin es, Michael. - It's me, Michael. | |
| Es spielt das Fernsehorchester. - The television orchestra is playing. | |
| Sie wird es noch weit bringen. - She is going to go far. | |
| 5. art. (regional, colloquial) alt form-lite, das | |
| Soll ich es Fenster zumachen? - Should I close the window? | |
| dürften |
| 1. v. first-person plural subjunctive of dürfen | |
| 2. v. third-person plural subjunctive of dürfen | |
| dürfen |
| 1. v. (auxiliary) to be allowed (to do something); to be permitted (to do something); may | |
| Darf ich gehen? - May I go? | |
| Ich habe gehen dürfen. - I was allowed to go. | |
| 2. v. to be allowed or permitted to do something implied or previously stated; may | |
| Ja, du darfst. - Yes, you may. | |
| Ich habe es gedurft. - I was allowed to do it. | |
| 3. v. (subjunctive ii, auxiliary) Expresses a prediction with mild doubt, that something is estimated or probable. | |
| Der Zug dürfte in ein paar Minuten ankommen. - The train should (will probably) be here in a few minutes. | |
| 4. v. (colloquial) to must, to have to | |
| Und ich darf dann wieder hinter euch aufräumen. - And I can clean up after you once again then. | |
| 5. v. (obsolete, transitive, with genitive) to need, to require | |
| einige |
| 1. pron. feminine singular of einig | |
| 2. pron. plural of einig | |
| 3. adj. form of einig | |
| einigen |
| 1. v. to unite or unify (for example a group of people) | |
| 2. v. to agree, to reach an agreement | |
| Wir haben uns nach schwierigen Gesprächen auf Folgendes geeinigt. - After difficult talks, we agreed to the following. | |
| 3. pron. dative plural of einige | |
| Tausend |
| 1. n. thousand (unity of one thousand things) | |
| ein halbes Tausend | |
| 2. n. thousands; a lot (unspecified large quantity) | |
| viele Tausend Mal / Tausende Male - thousands of times | |
| 3. n. (cardinal) thousand (the number) | |
| 4. n. (colloquial dated) (euphemistic form of Teufel, t=devil) | |
| 5. num. (cardinal) thousand | |
| historisch |
| 1. adj. historical, historic | |
| 2. adv. historically | |
| interessante |
| 1. adj. form of interessant | |
| interessant |
| 1. adj. interesting | |
| 2. adv. interestingly | |
| Verbringen Sie Ihre Freizeit interessant? - Did you spend your free time interestingly? | |
| Fälle |
| 1. n. plural of Fall | |
| 2. v. first-person singular present of fällen | |
| 3. v. first-person singular subjunctive of fällen | |
| 4. v. third-person singular subjunctive of fällen | |
| 5. v. singular imperative of fällen | |
| Fall |
| 1. n. fall, drop (the act of falling or an instance thereof) | |
| freier Fall - free fall | |
| 2. n. fall, capture (the act of being seized by enemy forces) | |
| der Fall von Konstantinopel - the fall of Constantinople | |
| 3. n. fall; the loss of one's innocence, honour, reputation, fortune, etc. | |
| 4. n. case (actual event, situation, or fact) | |
| Im Falle eines Falles. - in case of an emergency. | |
| 5. n. case (instance or event as a topic of study) | |
| 6. n. case (piece of work subject to case handling in an authority, court, customer support etc.) | |
| 7. n. (medicine) case (instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms) | |
| 8. n. (grammar) case (kind of inflection of a nominal) | |
| 9. n. (nautical) halyard | |
| geblieben |
| 1. Participle. past participle of bleiben | |
| bleiben |
| 1. v. (copulative, with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to remain (to continue to be) | |
| Er blieb sein ganzes Leben ein glühender Anhänger der Monarchie. - He remained a devoted supporter of the monarchy for all his life. | |
| 2. v. to keep (on); to continue (see usage notes below) | |
| Ich bleibe noch ein bisschen liegen. - I'll keep lying here for a bit. | |
| 3. v. to stay; to remain in a place | |
| Du kannst ja schon fahren, aber ich bleibe noch. - Feel free to leave, but I'm staying some more. | |
| 4. v. to be; to be stuck; implying tardiness | |
| Wo bleibst du? Wir sind schon seit über einer Stunde da. - Where are you? We arrived more than an hour ago. | |
| 5. v. to be left for someone | |
| Was bleibt ihm jetzt noch, wo seine Frau gestorben ist? - What does he have left now that his wife is dead? (literally: What is left for him...) | |
| 6. v. to stick with; to stay with | |
| Ich hab’s ihm erklärt, aber er bleibt bei seiner Meinung. - I’ve explained it to him, but he sticks with his opinion. | |
| Sein |
| 1. n. existence, being, essence (the state and the conditions of being, existing, occurring) | |
| 2. 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. | |
| 3. 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. | |
| 4. 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. | |
| 5. v. (auxiliary) forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain intransitive verbs | |
| Er ist alt geworden. - He has become old. | |
| 6. 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. | |
| 7. 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. | |
| 8. 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. | |
| 9. 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. | |
| 10. 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 | |
| 11. det. (informal) Used to express an approximate number, often with so. | |
| Der kostet so seine zweihundert Euro. - That one costs around two hundred euros. | |
| 12. det. one's | |
| Man muss seinem Herzen folgen. - One must follow one’s heart. | |
