| 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) | |
| Schere |
| 1. n-f. a pair of scissors, shears | |
| Kann ich mir eben deine Schere ausleihen? - Can I borrow your scissors for a minute? | |
| 2. n-f. (zoology) a pair of pincers (on a crab) | |
| 3. n-f. (figuratively) a gap, especially a widening one | |
| die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich - the (widening) gap between the poor and rich | |
| 4. v. first-person singular present of scheren | |
| 5. v. first-person singular subjunctive of scheren | |
| 6. v. third-person singular subjunctive of scheren | |
| 7. v. singular imperative of scheren | |
| scheren |
| 1. v. to cut back something that grows | |
| 2. v. to shear (sheep etc.) | |
| Wenn Schafe nicht geschoren werden, können sie sich vor lauter Wolle nicht mehr bewegen. - When sheep aren’t shorn, they can no longer move for a | |
| 3. v. to clip, prune (a hedge) | |
| 4. v. (dated) to cut, shave, trim (hair) | |
| 5. v. to exploit; to defraud of, cheat for (+preo, um) | |
| Bei dem Vertrag haben sie uns ganz schön geschoren. - In that contract they really ripped us off. | |
| 6. v. to bother (someone); to trouble (someone) | |
| Was schert mich das? - What does that bother me? | |
| Das schert mich einen Dreck! - It bothers me a dirt! | |
| 7. v. to care (about something); to mind (something) (+preo, um) | |
| Scher dich um deinen eigenen Kram! - Mind your own business | |
| 8. v. to go into a certain direction | |
| 9. v. to scram; to beat it | |
| 10. v. to shear, to apply a shearing transformation to (displacing each point of a geometric figure in fixed direction by an amount proportional to its signed distance, thus preserving the area of the figure | |
| ein Rechteck zu einem Parallelogramm scheren - to shear a rectangle into a parallelogram | |
| ein geschertes Rechteck verwandelt sich in ein Parallelogramm - a sheared rectangle is transformed into a parallelogram | |
| Objekte können mit der Maus skaliert, gedreht und geschert werden - objects can be scaled, rotated and sheared with the mouse | |
| mich |
| 1. pron. accusative of ich: me | |
| nicht |
| 1. adv. not, non- (negates the meaning of a verb, adjective, or adverb) | |
| Bitte nicht stören! - Please do not disturb! | |
| Das ist nicht wahr. - That is not true. | |
| 2. interj. (tag question, dated, or formal) right?; is it?; is it not? | |
| Du bist sicher die Claudia, nicht? - You must be Claudia, aren't you? | |
| um |
| 1. prep. about | |
| Es geht um den Kuchen. - It's about the pie. | |
| 2. prep. around | |
| Um die Ecke - around the corner | |
| 3. prep. at, by (qual, when relating to time) | |
| Um acht Uhr reisen wir ab - At eight o’clock we depart | |
| 4. prep. by (qual, percentage difference) | |
| Die Verkaufsmengen gingen um 6% zurück. - Sales in volume has decreased by 6%. | |
| 5. prep. (Austria) for qual, amount of money | |
| Um einen Euro bekommt man heute nicht besonders viel. - You can't buy much for one euro these days. | |
| Heute im Sonderangebot um nur 99 Euro. - Special offer today for only 99 euros. | |
| 6. conj. in order to, so as to | |
| Wir sind gekommen, um zu helfen. - We’ve come (in order) to help. | |
| 7. adj. (predicative, not attributive) up, in the sense of finished | |
| Werden dich in kurzem binden/ Erdgeist, deine Zeit ist um - source=Friedrich von Hardenberg, Novalis | |
| 8. adv. around, about | |
| 9. adv. turned over, changed, from one state to another | |
| Reichtum |
| 1. n. wealth, richness | |
| 2. n. (pluralonly) riches | |
| 3. n. affluence, abundance, treasure | |
| 4. n. variety | |
| 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? | |
| Ruhm |
| 1. n. fame, glory | |
