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) | |
Würde |
1. n-f. dignity | |
2. v. first-person singular subjunctive of werden | |
3. v. third-person singular subjunctive of werden | |
werden |
1. v. (auxiliary) will; to be going (to do something); forms the future tense | |
Ich werde nach Hause gehen. - I will go home. | |
2. v. (auxiliary) would; forms the subjunctive tense of most verbs | |
3. v. (auxiliary) to be done; forms the passive voice | |
Das Buch wird gerade gelesen. (present tense) - The book is being read. | |
Ich wurde in Europa geboren. (preterite tense) - I was born in Europe. | |
Er war geschlagen worden. (past perfect tense) - He had been beaten. | |
4. v. (copulative, past participle geworden) to become; to get; to grow; to turn | |
Es wird heißer. - It's getting hotter. | |
5. v. (with a dative object and certain adjectives) to begin or come to feel or experience (a condition) | |
Usage: In this sense werden 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. (See the usage no | |
Wird dir kalt? - Are you getting cold? | |
Den Kindern wird langweilig. - The children are getting bored. | |
Von Mayonnaise wird mir schlecht. - Mayonnaise makes me sick. (Literally: From mayonnaise I become sick.) | |
6. v. (copulative, colloquial) to be, to happen, to occur (in the future) | |
Wir werden zusammen glücklich. - We will be happy together. | |
Was wird aus mir? - What will become of me? | |
7. v. (colloquial) to be going to work | |
Das wird so nichts. - It will not work like that. | |
fast |
1. adv. almost; nearly | |
Fast 60 Spielfilme sind zu sehen. - There are almost 60 feature films to see. | |
2. adv. (in a negative clause) hardly | |
3. adv. (obsolete) extremely, very much | |
4. v. second-person singular present of fasen | |
5. v. third-person singular present of fasen | |
6. v. second-person plural present of fasen | |
7. v. plural imperative of fasen | |
fasen |
1. v. to chamfer | |
Sagen |
1. n. gerund of sagen | |
2. n. plural of Sage | |
3. v. to say (to pronounce; communicate verbally) | |
4. v. to tell (to inform (someone) verbally) | |
5. v. to mean (to convey or signify) | |
6. v. to speak up (+obj, etwas) | |
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? | |
handelt |
1. v. third-person singular present of handeln | |
2. v. second-person plural present of handeln | |
3. v. plural imperative of handeln | |
handeln |
1. v. to act; to take action | |
Jeder ist dafür verantwortlich, wie er handelt. - Everybody is responsible for the way they act. | |
Wir müssen handeln, bevor es zu spät ist. - We must take action before it is too late. | |
2. v. to negotiate; to bargain; to haggle | |
Da lass ich nicht mit mir handeln. - I won’t bargain about this. | |
3. v. to trade in; to deal; to sell (+preo, mit) | |
Er handelt mit Teppichen. - He trades in carpets. | |
4. v. to trade | |
Eine Aktiengesellschaft ist eine Firma, die an der Börse gehandelt wird. - A stock company is an enterprise that is traded in the stock market. | |
5. v. to tip as; to take into consideration as being | |
Er wird als der nächste Superstar gehandelt. - He’s being tipped as the next superstar. | |
6. v. to discuss; to deal with; to write or speak about (+preo, von) | |
Der Autor handelt auf 32 Seiten von dieser Nebensächlichkeit. - The author discusses this marginal issue in 32 pages. | |
7. v. to be about; to deal with | |
Das Buch handelt von Hasen. - The book is about hares. | |
8. v. (impersonal, reflexive, often with bei to add clarification, idiomatic) to be, to be a case of, to be a matter of (Often used to introduce the subject before giving it a name, or to indicate so | |
Es handelt sich um ein Missverständnis. - What we have is a misunderstanding. | |
Bei diesen Tieren handelt es sich um Hasen. - These animals here are hares. | |
Es handelt sich um ein paar Tage, bis die Pakete ankommen werden. - It will be a matter of days before the packages will arrive. | |
9. v. to handle something; to control; to deal with in an organised fashion | |
Wir müssen sehen, wie wir dieses Problem handeln. - We must find a way of handling this problem. | |
sich |
1. pron. Reflexive pronoun of the third person singular: herself, himself, itself, oneself (direct or indirect object). | |
2. pron. Reflexive pronoun of the third person plural: themselves (direct or indirect object). | |
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 | |
eine |
1. num. feminine singular of ein | |
2. art. feminine singular of ein: a, an | |
3. pron. feminine singular of einer | |
4. pron. masculine nominative singular of einer | |
5. pron. singular of einer | |
verhinderte |
1. v. first-person singular preterite of verhindern | |
2. v. third-person singular preterite of verhindern | |
3. v. first-person singular subjunctive of verhindern | |
4. v. third-person singular subjunctive of verhindern | |
verhindern |
1. v. to prevent, to inhibit | |
Elite |
1. n-f. elite | |