| Jetzt |
| 1. n. the present; now | |
| 2. adv. now (at this moment, right now) | |
| Ich bin jetzt da. - I’m here now. | |
| Jetzt gibt es sowas gar nicht mehr. - Such things don’t exist anymore now. | |
| Jetzt gab es ein lautes Geräusch. - Just then there was a loud noise. | |
| 3. adv. now, then (expressing a logical or temporal consequence) | |
| Wir haben abgewaschen, jetzt müssen wir noch abtrocknen. - We've washed up, now we must dry the dishes. | |
| Was bedeuten jetzt die geschilderten Entwicklungen für unser Land? - Now what do the aforementioned developments mean for our country? | |
| 4. adv. now (unstressed and expletive, used for minor emphasis) | |
| Was soll das jetzt heißen? - What's that supposed to mean now? | |
| kannst |
| 1. v. second-person singular present 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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| Du |
| 1. pron. alternative case form of du you (singular) (especially when used as a direct address in letters) | |
| 2. n. (literally) the thou, the you (singular) | |
| jemandem das Du anbieten - to offer somebody the thou | |
| 3. pron. you (thou, singular familiar) | |
| Zulangen |
| 1. n. gerund of zulangen | |
| 2. v. to help oneself | |
| 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? | |
| Dir |
| 1. pron. alternative case form of dir | |
| 2. pron. personal dative of du; you, to you. | |
| 3. pron. dative of du; yourself, to yourself. | |
| ein |
| 1. art. a, an | |
| ein Mann - a man | |
| eine Frau - a woman | |
| ein Kind - a child | |
| 2. adv. (now chiefly in compounds) indicating (concrete or abstract/metaphorical) motion into something | |
| ein und aus gehen, weder ein noch aus wissen | |
| darein, derein, feldein, feldein, hafenein, hafenein, herein, herein, hierein, hierein, hinein, hinein, jahrein, jahrein, waldein, waldein (older spellings include Wald-ein), worein, wor | |
| 3. adj. (predicative) on | |
| Ist der Schalter ein oder aus? (d. h., Ist der Schalter ein- oder ausgeschaltet?) - Is the switch on or off. (i.e., Is the switch switched on or off.) | |
| Paar |
| 1. n. pair, couple | |
| Ein Paar brauner Schuhe. - A pair of brown shoes. | |
| 2. n. twosome | |
| 3. det. some; few; a few | |
| ein paar |
| 1. det. Form of paar | |
| Körner |
| 1. n. plural of Korn | |
| Korn |
| 1. n. kernel; single grain | |
| 2. n. (firearm) bead (knob on a gun barrel used for aiming) | |
| 3. n. cereal; corn; grain (type of plant and its fruit) | |
| 4. n. (dated, or regional) rye (as the commonest kind of grain in German-speaking Europe) | |
| 5. n-m. Korn (liquor produced from fermented cereal grain seed) | |
| 6. Proper noun. Chiers (river) | |
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