| 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) | |
| werde |
| 1. v. first-person singular present of werden | |
| 2. v. first-person singular subjunctive of werden | |
| 3. v. third-person singular subjunctive of werden | |
| 4. v. singular imperative 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. | |
| nächste |
| 1. adj. form of nah, ste | |
| nah |
| 1. adj. near (in space or time or in an abstract sense), close, nearby | |
| Ich plane in naher Zukunft eine Reise nach Deutschland. - I'm planning a trip to Germany in the near future. | |
| 2. adv. near (in space or time or in an abstract sense) | |
| Woche |
| 1. n-f. week (period of seven days counting from Monday to Sunday, or from Sunday to Saturday) | |
| ab nächster Woche - from next week on | |
| vor Wochen - weeks ago | |
| jede zweite Woche - every other week | |
| Woche für Woche - week after week | |
| 2. n-f. week (any period of seven consecutive days) | |
| schon seit einer Woche - for a week already | |
| 3. n-f. week; weekdays (those days of a given week on which most people work) | |
| unter der Woche - during the week | |
| meinen |
| 1. v. to opine, to think; to believe; to suppose | |
| Ich meine, das war letztes oder vorletztes Jahr. - I think it was last year or the year before. | |
| 2. v. to say; to utter; (not used with nouns; not used in the imperative and rarely in the infinitive) | |
| Entschuldige, was meintest du gerade? - Sorry, what did you just say? | |
| 3. v. to mean; to be convinced or sincere about something | |
| Das sagt er nicht nur, das meint er auch. - He doesn’t just say it, he means it. | |
| 4. v. to mean; to have in mind; to convey | |
| Was meintest du damit? - What did you mean by that? | |
| Meinst du das rote oder das gelbe Haus? - Do you mean the red or the yellow house? | |
| 5. v. (now rare) to mean; to signify | |
| Was meint dieses Wort? - What does this word mean? | |
| 6. det. (possessive) masculine accusative singular of mein | |
| 7. det. (possessive) dative plural of mein | |
| Onkel |
| 1. n. uncle | |
| Besuchen |
| 1. n. gerund of besuchen | |
| 2. n. dative plural of Besuch | |
| 3. v. to visit, to see | |
| Wir haben heute unsere Mama in der Seniorenwohnanlage besucht. - We visited our mom in the retirement home today. | |
| 4. v. to attend | |
| Er besuchte das Düsseldorfer Gymnasium. - He attended the high school of Düsseldorf. | |
