seine |
1. pron. feminine singular of seiner | |
2. pron. plural of seiner | |
3. det. feminine singular of sein | |
4. det. plural of sein | |
sein |
1. v. (copulative, with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to be | |
Das ist schön. - That is beautiful. | |
Das ist ein Auto. - That is a car. | |
2. v. (with a dative object and certain adjectives) to feel, (to experience a condition) | |
Usage: In this sense sein 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. For example: "Mir i | |
Ist dir kalt? - Are you cold? | |
Mir ist schlecht. - I'm sick. | |
Dem Mann ist schwindelig. - The man feels dizzy. | |
Den Kindern ist langweilig. - The children are bored. | |
3. v. (with a dative object and nach or danach, sometimes with zumute) to feel like, to be in the mood for | |
Usage: As in the previous sense sein takes a Dative noun and is always conjugated according to the impersonal subject es, although it is usually omitted. | |
Uns ist nach einem Film zumute. - We feel like watching a movie. | |
Mir ist nicht danach. - I don't feel like it. | |
4. v. (auxiliary) forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain intransitive verbs | |
Er ist alt geworden. - He has become old. | |
5. v. to exist; there to be; to be alive | |
Was nicht ist, kann noch werden. (a common proverb) - That which does not exist now, may come into existence. | |
Wenn ich nicht mehr bin, erbst du das Haus. - When I am no more, you'll inherit the house. | |
6. v. to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.) | |
Du bist. - It’s your turn. | |
Du bist nach mir. - Your turn is after mine. | |
7. v. to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag | |
Du bist! - You're it! | |
Ich bin nicht mehr. - I'm not it anymore. | |
8. det. his | |
Daniel schickt seiner Schwester eine SMS. - Daniel is sending a text to his sister. | |
Der Kater spielt oft mit seinen Spielsachen. - The cat often plays with his toys. | |
9. det. its (agreeing with a masculine or neuter noun) | |
der Mond und sein Licht - the moon and its light | |
das Schaf und seine Lämmer - the sheep and its lambs | |
10. det. (informal) Used to express an approximate number, often with so. | |
Der kostet so seine zweihundert Euro. - That one costs around two hundred euros. | |
11. det. one's | |
Man muss seinem Herzen folgen. - One must follow one’s heart. | |
Hand |
1. n. (football, informal) short for, Handspiel | |
Das war Hand! - That was a handball! | |
Das erste Hand war vor dem Strafraum, aber das zweite hätte Elfmeter geben müssen. - The first handball was outside the box, but the second one should have been a penalty. | |
Griff |
1. n. grip, grasp; (figuratively) reach | |
der Griff nach den Sternen | |
2. n. handle | |
Türgriff - door handle | |
3. v. first-person singular preterite of greifen | |
4. v. third-person singular preterite of greifen | |
greifen |
1. v. to grab; to grasp; to grip (something) | |
2. v. to grab; to seize; to snatch (in an aggressive way) | |
3. v. to reach; to grab | |
an etwas greifen - to grab onto something | |
nach etwas greifen - to reach for something | |
zu etwas greifen - to reach for something | |
in etwas greifen - to reach into something | |
4. v. to capture (someone) | |
5. v. to strike | |
6. v. to take hold; to bite | |
Trotz des schlechten Wetters griffen die Reifen hervorragend - The tires did bite perfectly despite the bad weather. | |
in |
1. prep. (with dative) in, inside, within, at (inside a building) | |
Es ist in dem Haus. - It is in the house. | |
Ich habe die Schlüssel im (in dem) Kühlschrank gefunden. - I found the keys in the refrigerator. | |
Unsere Kinder sind in der Schule. - Our kids are at school. | |
Er ist in einem Café. - He is at a coffee shop. | |
Letzte Nacht waren sie im (in dem) Club. - They were at the club last night. | |
2. prep. (with dative) in (pertaining to) | |
in diesem Sinne - in this/that sense | |
3. prep. (with dative) in, at, by (at the end of or during a period of time) | |
Er schloss sein Studium im Alter von vierzehn. - He completed his studies at/by the age of fourteen. | |
im Alter - in old age | |
im Mittelalter - during the middle ages | |
in den 1960er Jahren - in the 1960s | |
4. prep. (with accusative) into, to (going inside (of)) | |
Er geht ins Haus. - He goes into the house. | |
Wir gehen in die Schweiz. - We are going to Switzerland. | |
Wir treten in ein neues Zeitalter ein. - We are coming into a new age. | |
5. adj. in, popular (in fashion) | |
den |
1. art. masculine accusative singular of der | |
2. art. dative plural of der | |
3. pron. that; whom; masculine accusative singular of der | |
Spiegel |
1. n-m. mirror (smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light) | |
Sie hatte einen großen Spiegel. - She had a large mirror. | |
2. n-m. level (of a liquid within a delimited space or a substance in a liquid mixture) | |
Meeresspiegel - sea level | |
Alkoholspiegel - alcohol level (amount in blood, for example) | |
Testosteronspiegel - testosterone level | |
3. n-m. surface (flat overside or up-side of a liquid) | |
4. n-m. schematic overview, table (two-dimensional presentation of data) | |
Notenspiegel - transcript (as in a set of notes that mirrors the conversation) | |
Gehaltsspiegel - salary tables (pay levels) | |
5. n-m. white or light-coloured mark (on an animal) | |
6. n-m. (on the forehead of horses and cattle) | |
Das Pony hatte einen hübsch geformten Spiegel auf der Stirn. - The pony had a nicely shaped mark on the forehead. | |
7. n-m. (on the wing of a goose, capercaillie, or black cock) | |
8. n-m. (on the hindquarters of deer) | |
9. v. first-person singular present of spiegeln | |
10. v. singular imperative of spiegeln | |
hinein |
1. adv. in (away from the speaker) | |