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? | |
Werden |
1. n. (gerund of werden); becoming (coming into being) | |
2. v. (auxiliary) will; to be going (to do something); forms the future tense | |
Ich werde nach Hause gehen. - I will go home. | |
3. v. (auxiliary) would; forms the subjunctive tense of most verbs | |
4. 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. | |
5. v. (copulative, past participle geworden) to become; to get; to grow; to turn | |
Es wird heißer. - It's getting hotter. | |
6. 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.) | |
7. 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? | |
8. v. (colloquial) to be going to work | |
Das wird so nichts. - It will not work like that. | |
wir |
1. pron. we | |
erst |
1. adv. first, at first | |
2. adv. only (with progress, accomplishments or the present time) | |
Sie ist erst 28 Jahre alt. - She is only 28 years old. | |
Es ist erst halb zehn. - It is only half past nine. | |
3. adv. not until, not for, not before (with reference to a point or period of time in the future) | |
Ich bin erst nächsten Monat in Urlaub. - I'm not on vacation until next month. | |
Mein Bruder kommt erst in drei Wochen an. - My brother's not arriving for three weeks. | |
4. adv. only, as recently as (with reference to the past) | |
Er ist erst gestern gegangen. - He left only yesterday. | |
Er ist erst seit zwei Tagen da. - He has only been here for two days. | |
5. adv. short for, erstmal | |
Es ist kalt im Süden. Und im Norden erst! - It is cold in the South. And especially in the North. | |
6. adv. Switzerland synonym of zumal | |
Mal |
1. n. time (as in the first time; many times) | |
2. n. occasion, case, occurrence | |
3. n. a mark on the body, e.g. a scar, mole, etc. | |
4. n. (chiefly in compounds) mark, sign in the landscape, e.g. a milestone | |
5. n. (ball games) base | |
6. adv. times (indicating multiplication of two numbers) | |
sechs mal sieben ist zweiundvierzig - six times seven is forty-two | |
7. adv. (informal) Alternative form of einmal, , sometime, ever, once, may serve to introduce a new information. | |
Wenn du in Köln bist, musst du mal bei deiner Tante anrufen. - When you’re in Cologne, you must call your aunt sometime. | |
Ich geh mal zum Kaffeestand. - I’m off to the coffee stall. | |
8. adv. (informal) Softening a sentence, thus making a request or command more polite. By extension, indicating a command or request. | |
Haben Sie mal Feuer? - Do you have a lighter please? | |
Haste Feuer? - D'ya have fire? | |
Du musst mal deine Tante anrufen. - You have to call your aunt. | |
9. v. singular imperative of malen | |
10. v. colloquial of | |
malen |
1. v. to paint (do paintwork) | |
2. v. to paint (create a painting) | |
3. v. (loosely) to draw, depict (with a pencil, computer program, etc.) | |
erst mal |
1. adv. (colloquial) Alternative form of erstmal | |
Braun |
1. n. brown (color) | |
(color panel, A52A2A) | |
2. Proper noun. surname, common, from=nicknames, eq=Brown | |
3. adj. brown | |
brauner Zucker - brown sugar | |
4. adj. tan (skin, due to sun exposure) | |
5. adj. (politics, historic) of the Nazi party and organisations (due to the brown SA uniform) | |
6. adj. (politics, loosely, pejorative) of the political right, especially the far right | |