Ich |
1. n. (psychoanalysis) ego | |
2. n. self, me, him, etc. | |
das wahre Ich - the real me | |
3. pron. I (first person singular nominative (subject) pronoun) | |
könnte |
1. v. first-person singular subjunctive of können | |
2. v. third-person singular subjunctive of können | |
können |
1. v. to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can. | |
2. v. (auxiliary) | |
Kannst du ihm helfen? - Are you able to help him? | |
Ich hätte das machen können. - I could have done that. | |
Das kann sein, kann aber auch nicht sein. - This may be and may also not be. | |
Das kann es nicht geben. - This is nothing that could possibly exist. | |
3. v. to be able to do something implied; can. | |
Nein, ich kann nicht. - No, I can’t. | |
Er hat gekonnt. - He was able to do it. | |
4. v. to know how to do (something); to know; to understand; to be able to do (something); to be capable of; can do (something), to have a specific skill. (w | |
Ich kann Deutsch und Englisch. - I know German and English. | |
Kannst du es? - Can you do it? | |
Das hätte ich nicht gekonnt. - I couldn’t have done that. / I wouldn’t have been capable of that. | |
5. v. to be possible, to make sense | |
Nächstes Jahr is’n Schaltjahr. – Das kann nich’. Letztes Jahr war doch Schaltjahr! - Next year is a leap year. – That’s not possible. Last year w | |
6. v. (auxiliary) to be allowed (to do something); to be permitted (to do something); may. | |
Kann ich mitkommen? - May I come along? | |
Er hat nicht ins Kino gehen können. - He was not allowed to go to the cinema. | |
7. v. (auxiliary) to be in the legal situation of being able to realize a legal effect even if it be legally disallowed | |
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diese |
1. pron. feminine nominative singular of dieser; "this" | |
2. pron. feminine accusative singular of dieser; "this" | |
Ich will diese Frau - I want this woman. | |
3. pron. nominative plural of dieser; "these" | |
Diese Dinge sind dumm - These things are stupid. | |
4. pron. accusative plural of dieser; "these" | |
dieser |
1. pron. this one, this | |
2. pron. that one, that | |
Letzten |
1. n. singular of Letzter | |
2. n. dative plural of Letzter | |
3. n. singular of Letzter | |
4. n. plural of Letzter | |
5. n. dative plural of Letzte | |
6. n. singular of Letzte | |
7. n. plural of Letzte | |
8. adj. form of letzter, en | |
letzter |
1. adj. form of letzte | |
Stunden |
1. n. plural of Stunde | |
2. v. to defer (payment) | |
Stunde |
1. n-f. hour (unit of time consisting of 60 minutes) | |
Der Film dauert drei Stunden. - The movie lasts three hours. | |
2. n-f. (dated) hour, moment, time (point in time) | |
Bitte für uns Sünder, jetzt und in der Stunde unsres Todes. - Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. | |
3. n-f. lesson; class (teaching unit, usually between 45 and 90 minutes) | |
Ich muss jetzt zur Klavierstunde. - I need to go to piano class right now. | |
aufschreiben |
1. v. to write down, mark down, to make a note (of something) | |
Ich schreibe etwas auf. | |
2. v. to mark out | |
3. v. (medical) to prescribe (medicine) | |
in |
1. prep. (with dative) in, inside, within, at (inside a building) | |
Es ist in dem Haus. - It is in the house. | |
Ich habe die Schlüssel im (in dem) Kühlschrank gefunden. - I found the keys in the refrigerator. | |
Unsere Kinder sind in der Schule. - Our kids are at school. | |
Er ist in einem Café. - He is at a coffee shop. | |
Letzte Nacht waren sie im (in dem) Club. - They were at the club last night. | |
2. prep. (with dative) in (pertaining to) | |
in diesem Sinne - in this/that sense | |
3. prep. (with dative) in, at, by (at the end of or during a period of time) | |
Er schloss sein Studium im Alter von vierzehn. - He completed his studies at/by the age of fourteen. | |
im Alter - in old age | |
im Mittelalter - during the middle ages | |
in den 1960er Jahren - in the 1960s | |
4. prep. (with accusative) into, to (going inside (of)) | |
Er geht ins Haus. - He goes into the house. | |
Wir gehen in die Schweiz. - We are going to Switzerland. | |
Wir treten in ein neues Zeitalter ein. - We are coming into a new age. | |
5. adj. in, popular (in fashion) | |
den |
1. art. masculine accusative singular of der | |
2. art. dative plural of der | |
3. pron. that; whom; masculine accusative singular of der | |
Plastikbeutel |
1. n-m. plastic bag | |
Wickeln |
1. n. gerund of wickeln | |
2. v. to wrap, wind around, coil | |
(co, eine Decke um die Beine wickeln, to wrap a blanket around one’s legs) | |
Ehe dass ich friere, wickle ich mich in den Vorgang da! | |
3. v. to swaddle (a baby); to change its nappy/diaper | |
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? | |
Als |
1. n. creek, drainage channel | |
2. conj. (subordinating, referring to time of occurrence) at (approximately) the same moment; when; while; as | |
Als er ankam, öffnete sie die Tür. - When he arrived, she opened the door. | |
Als wir jung waren, spielten wir im Wald. - We played in the forest when we were young. | |
3. conj. (used with a comparison or as an exception) than | |
Zwei ist größer als eins. - Two is greater than one. | |
Die Kopie sieht anders aus als das Original. - The copy looks different than the original. | |
Er sagt nichts anderes als die Wahrheit. - He tells nothing other than the truth. | |
4. conj. as; like; in the function of; in the form of | |
Als Polizist muss ich es tun. - As a policeman, I must do it. | |
Wir sind Feinde, aber im Moment müssen wir uns als Freunde verhalten. - We are enemies, but for now we must act like friends. | |
Sie verkleidete sich als Krankenschwester, um das Krankenhaus zu betreten. - She disguised herself as a nurse to enter the hospital. | |
5. conj. as if | |
6. conj. (after negative pronoun) but, other than | |
Testament |
1. n. (legal) will, testament | |
2. n. (biblical) testament (part of the Bible) | |
hinterlassen |
1. v. to leave behind (after leaving a location) | |
Die Hirsche hinterliessen Spuren im Schnee. - The deer left tracks in the snow. | |
2. v. to bequeath | |