| Pinsel |
| 1. n-m. paintbrush | |
| 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. | |
| noch |
| 1. adv. still, yet (up to and including a given time) | |
| Du magst mich noch. - You still like me. | |
| Ich bin noch nicht fertig. - I’m not ready yet. | |
| 2. adv. yet, eventually (at an unknown time in the future) | |
| Er wird noch kommen. - He will come eventually. | |
| Das brauche ich später noch. - I'll need that sometime. | |
| 3. adv. additionally, in addition, besides, else; (more often expressed in English with) another, more | |
| Da ist noch einer. - There’s another one. | |
| Da sind noch welche. - There are some more. | |
| Ich habe noch Schokolade im Auto. - I have some more chocolate in the car. | |
| Weißt du noch was? - Can you think of anything else? | |
| 4. adv. (only) just; barely (by a small margin) | |
| Ich habe es gerade noch geschafft. - I made it just in time. | |
| 5. adv. (with comparative) even | |
| Deins ist noch schöner! - Yours is even prettier! | |
| 6. conj. (following a negation, especially weder) nor; function word introducing each except the first term or series, indicating none of them is true | |
| Ich mag weder ihn noch dich. - I like neither him nor you. | |
| Er versteht es nicht noch wird er es jemals verstehen. - He doesn’t understand it, nor will he ever understand it. | |
| 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 | |
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| Machen |
| 1. n. gerund of machen | |
| 2. v. to make, produce, create (an object, arrangement, situation, etc.) | |
| Ich hab dir einen Kuchen gemacht! - I made you a pie! | |
| Du hast einen Fehler gemacht. - You made a mistake. | |
| 3. v. to make, prepare | |
| Machst du heute das Essen? - Are you making dinner today? | |
| sich eine Pizza machen - to prepare a pizza for oneself | |
| 4. v. to do, perform, carry out (to execute; to put into operation (an action)) | |
| Mach es! - Do it! | |
| Das hat er ganz allein gemacht! - He did that all by himself! | |
| ein Experiment machen - to perform an experiment | |
| 5. v. to do; (indicates an activity associated with a noun) | |
| Sport machen - do sports | |
| eine Party machen - have a party | |
| 6. v. to go (to make the (specified) sound) | |
| Das Auto machte "Bumm" und hielt an. - The car went "boom" and stopped. | |
| 7. v. to make (to cause or compel (to do something)) | |
| 8. v. to cause (to set off an event or action or produce as a result) | |
| 9. v. to make (to cause to be) | |
| Dieser Film macht mich schläfrig. - This movie makes me sleepy. | |
| 10. v. to make (transform from one thing into another) | |
| Die Mühle macht Mehl aus Weizen. - The mill makes flour from wheat. | |
| 11. v. to make (to have as a feature) | |
| Die Straße macht vor uns eine Linkskurve. - The road makes a turn to the left ahead. | |
| 12. v. to come to, total, cost (to require the payment of) | |
| Wie viel macht das? - How much does that come to? | |
| 13. v. to make, be (the result of a calculation) | |
| Sieben plus fünf macht zwölf. - Seven plus five makes twelve. | |
| 14. v. to make (to earn, gain wages, profit, etc.) | |
| Der Herr Müller ist echt reich; der macht mehr als 5000 Euro im Monat. - Mr Müller is quite rich; he makes more than 5000 Euros per month. | |
| 15. v. to be, play (to act as the indicated role, especially in a performance) | |
| 16. v. to matter (to be important) | |
| Das macht nichts! - That doesn't matter! | |
| 17. v. to make, make oneself out to be, act, play (to behave so as to give an appearance of being; to act as if one were (something, or a certain way)) (+preo, auf) | |
| 18. v. to do one's business, do number two or number one, go (to defecate or urinate) | |
| (childish) groß machen - to go poop | |
| (childish) klein machen - to go pee | |
| 19. v. to do (to fare or perform (well or poorly)) | |
| Machen Sie sich gut? - Are you doing well? | |
| 20. v. to look (to have an appearance of being) | |
| Der Mantel macht sich sehr schön. - The coat looks very nice. | |
| 21. v. to get cracking (an (“on,” “with”)), get a move on (it), to get down (an (“to”)) (something); (in imperative:) come on, let's go | |
| damit |
| 1. adv. takes a reflexive pronoun adverb of mit | |
| 2. conj. (subordinating, with indicative or subjunctive I) so that, in order that | |
| Beeil dich, damit wir bald losfahren können. - Hurry up so that we can take off soon. | |
| 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) | |
| den |
| 1. art. masculine accusative singular of der | |
| 2. art. dative plural of der | |
| 3. pron. that; whom; masculine accusative singular of der | |
| Pinsel |
| 1. n-m. paintbrush | |
| besser |
| 1. adj. comparative of gut; better | |
| 2. v. first-person singular present of bessern | |
| 3. v. singular imperative of bessern | |
| bessern |
| 1. v. to improve, to better | |
| Schwingen |
| 1. n. vibration, oscillation | |
| 2. n. (Switzerland) wrestling | |
| das ursprüngliche Schwingen der Hirten und Älpler (1989) | |
| 3. n. (poetically, figuratively) (pair of) wings | |
| 4. v. to swing (to move back and forth) (+aux, haben) | |
| Sie schwingt auf einer Schaukel. - She is swinging on a swing. | |
| 5. v. to move (somewhere) by swinging (+aux, sein) | |
| 6. v. to swing (to move something using a swinging motion) (+aux, haben) | |
| 7. v. to wave; to brandish (+aux, haben) | |
| 8. v. to vibrate (+aux, haben) | |
| 9. v. to oscillate (+aux, haben) | |
| 10. v. to resound (+aux, haben) | |
| 11. v. to propagate (somewhere) as sound, to move throughout (an area) resounding (+aux, sein) | |
| der Klang der Glocken schwang durch die Stadt - the sound of the bells resounded throughout the city | |
| 12. v. to be expressed (i, in someone's words) +aux, haben | |
| 13. v. (skiing) to ski back and forth +aux, sein | |
| 14. v. to arc (+aux, haben) | |
| 15. v. (regional) to clean (hemp or flax) of wood residues +aux, haben | |
| 16. v. (Switzerland, sports) to wrestle in the Schwingen (Swiss wrestling) style +aux, haben | |
| kann |
| 1. v. first-person singular present of können | |
| 2. v. third-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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