graue |
1. v. first-person singular present of grauen | |
2. v. first-person singular subjunctive of grauen | |
3. v. third-person singular subjunctive of grauen | |
4. v. singular imperative of grauen | |
grauen |
1. v. (impersonal, + dative) to cause terror | |
Mir graut es schon vor der Prüfung. - I am already terrified by the exam. | |
2. v. to be terrified | |
Ich graue mich vor der morgigen Prüfung. - I am already terrified by tomorrow's exam. | |
3. v. to break | |
4. v. to become grey | |
Sein Fell graut. - His fur is turning grey. | |
5. adj. form of grau | |
triste |
1. adj. form of trist | |
trist |
1. adj. dull | |
2. adj. miserable | |
3. adj. sad | |
Sachen |
1. n. plural of Sache | |
Sache |
1. n-f. matter, affair, case, question, issue | |
beschlossene Sache - done deal | |
Die Polizei untersuchte die Sache ohne Ergebnis. - The police investigated the matter with no result. | |
2. n-f. thing, object | |
Da ist noch eine Sache. - There's one more thing (for me to say). | |
3. n-f. (law) thing: corporeal object | |
4. n-f. cause, action | |
5. n-f. subject, matter, business | |
Das ist Privatsache. - That's a private matter. | |
6. n-f. (chiefly in colloquial) kilometers per hour | |
Er raste mit hundert Sachen um die Ecke. - He raced around the corner at 100 per. | |
lauter |
1. adj. (formal) sincere; honorable; of integrity; correct | |
Der Angeklagten können lautere Absichten nicht abgesprochen werden. - The defendant’s honorable intentions cannot be denied. | |
2. adj. (formal, literary, most often of metal) genuine; pure | |
Der König trug einen Ring aus lauterem Gold. - The king wore a ring of genuine gold. | |
3. adj. (colloquial uninflected not comparable) a lot of; a bunch of; much; many; several | |
Ich hab auf der Party lauter alte Freunde getroffen. - I met a bunch of old friends at the party. | |
4. adv. (formal) in a sincere, honorable, correct manner; with integrity | |
Die andere Seite hat sich in den Verhandlungen nicht lauter verhalten. - The other side did not behave correctly during the negotiations. | |
5. adv. (colloquial) just; only; exclusively; often best translated with all | |
Die Leute in der Verwaltung sind lauter Idioten. - Those people in the administration are all idiots. | |
Das ist doch lauter Unsinn, was du sagst. - But that’s just nonsense what you’re saying. | |
6. adj. comparative of laut | |
7. adj. form of laut | |
langweilige |
1. adj. form of langweilig | |
langweilig |
1. adj. boring, dull, tedious | |
Das ist langweilig. - That's boring. | |
2. adj. bored (when a dative reflexive pronoun is used) | |
Mir ist langweilig. - I'm bored. | |
Schinken |
1. n-m. ham, pork from the hindquarter | |
2. n-m. (colloquial) hams, buttocks | |
3. n-m. (colloquial often derogatory) old tome or painting | |
Ölschinken - (large) oil painting | |
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) | |
denen |
1. pron. dative plural of der | |
2. pron. (relative): (to) whom, (to) which, that | |
3. pron. (demonstrative): (to) that, (to) him/her | |
man |
1. pron. one, you (indefinite pronoun; construed as a third-person singular) | |
Man kann nicht immer kriegen, was man will. - You can’t always get what you want. | |
Manchmal muss man Kompromisse machen. - Sometimes one must compromise. | |
2. pron. they, people (people in general) | |
Zumindest sagt man das so... - At least that’s what they say... | |
3. pron. someone, somebody (some unspecified person) | |
4. pron. they (some unspecified group of people) | |
5. adv. (colloquial regional northern Germany) just; only | |
Komm man hier rüber! - Just come over here! | |
Das sind man dreißig Stück oder so. - These are only thirty or so. | |
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. | |
Depressionen |
1. n. plural of Depression | |
Depression |
1. n-f. (economics, geography, psychology) depression | |
bekommt |
1. v. third-person singular present of bekommen | |
2. v. second-person plural present of bekommen | |
3. v. plural imperative of bekommen | |
bekommen |
1. v. to receive; to get (+aux, haben) | |
Hunger bekommen - to get hunger | |
ein Kind bekommen - to have a child | |
2. v. to catch (+aux, haben) | |
den Schnupfen bekommen - to catch a cold | |
3. v. (with dative object) to agree with (someone); to sit well with (someone) i, of food or drink +aux, sein | |
Das Essen bekommt ihm nicht. - The food does not agree with him. | |
4. v. to get (with the past participle form of a verb) (+aux, haben) | |
Das bekommt er ständig gesagt. - He gets told that all the time. | |
Wir haben sie ins Krankenhaus gebracht, wo sie einen Gips angelegt bekommen hat. - We brought her to the hospital where she got a cast applied. | |
Haben Sie jemals Antidepressiva verordnet bekommen? - Have you ever been prescribed antidepressants? | |