| Wenn |
| 1. n. (informal) if | |
| 2. conj. when | |
| Sag bitte Bescheid, wenn du fertig bist! (Tell me when you're done!) | |
| 3. conj. if (on the condition that) | |
| Was tun, wenn ich nicht weiß, ob sie mich liebt? (What (to do) if I don't know if she loves me?) | |
| Sie |
| 1. pron. you (polite; singular and plural) | |
| Was möchten Sie, Frau Wagner? - What would you like to have, Mrs. Wagner? | |
| 2. pron. she | |
| Ist sie noch krank? - Is she still sick? | |
| Das ist meine Katze. Sie heißt Lili. - This is my cat. Her name is Lili. | |
| Ich suche Vanessa. Hast du sie gesehen? - I'm looking for Vanessa. Have you seen her? | |
| 3. pron. it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine die) | |
| Scheint die Sonne noch? Nein, sie ist schon untergegangen. - Is the Sun still shining? No, it has already gone down. | |
| Ich suche meine Brieftasche. Hast du sie gesehen? - I'm looking for my wallet. Have you seen it? | |
| 4. pron. he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is feminine die) | |
| Die Geisel Richard Meier versuchte, sich zu befreien, aber sie schaffte es nicht. - The hostage Richard Meier tried to break free, but he didn’t succeed. | |
| Die Wache Michael Müller beschädigte ihr Gewehr, wofür ihr Vorgesetzter sie bestrafte. - The guardsman Michael Müller damaged his rifle, and his supervisor punished him for that. | |
| 5. pron. they; them | |
| keinen |
| 1. en:not a | |
| 2. pron. masculine accusative of kein | |
| Ich suche keinen Job. - I'm not looking for a job. | |
| uxi, Ich suche kein Job., I'm not looking for a job. | |
| 3. pron. dative plural of kein | |
| es gehört keinen Leuten - it does not belong to anyone | |
| 4. pron. masculine accusative of keiner | |
| 5. pron. dative plural of keiner | |
| kein |
| 1. pron. no; not a(n); not one; not any | |
| Das ist kein Bett. - That is no bed. | |
| uxi, Es gibt kein Brot., There is no bread. | |
| besseren |
| 1. adj. form of gut, eren | |
| gut |
| 1. adj. good (acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral) | |
| Wir müssen gut sein, um uns gut zu fühlen. - We must be good to feel good. | |
| 2. adj. good (effective; useful) | |
| 3. adj. good (fortunate) | |
| 4. adj. good (having a particularly pleasant taste) | |
| 5. adj. all right, fair, proper (satisfactory) | |
| 6. adj. good (full; entire; at least as much as) | |
| 7. adv. well (accurately, competently, satisfactorily) | |
| Die Mannschaft hat gut gespielt. - The team played well. | |
| 8. adv. a little more than (with measurements) | |
| Ich wohne seit gut zwanzig Jahren in Berlin. - I've lived in Berlin for over twenty years/for a good twenty years. | |
| Das Bett ist gut zwei Meter lang. - The bed is a little over two meters long. | |
| 9. adv. easily, likely | |
| Dieser Gegenstand ist gut zu finden. - That item is easily found. | |
| Es kann gut sein, dass du nächstes Jahr verheiratet bist. - You may well be married next year. | |
| 10. interj. okay, all right, now then | |
| Gut, dann fangen wir mal an. - All right, then let's get started. | |
| Fall |
| 1. n. fall, drop (the act of falling or an instance thereof) | |
| freier Fall - free fall | |
| 2. n. fall, capture (the act of being seized by enemy forces) | |
| der Fall von Konstantinopel - the fall of Constantinople | |
| 3. n. fall; the loss of one's innocence, honour, reputation, fortune, etc. | |
| 4. n. case (actual event, situation, or fact) | |
| Im Falle eines Falles. - in case of an emergency. | |
| 5. n. case (instance or event as a topic of study) | |
| 6. n. case (piece of work subject to case handling in an authority, court, customer support etc.) | |
| 7. n. (medicine) case (instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms) | |
| 8. n. (grammar) case (kind of inflection of a nominal) | |
| 9. n. (nautical) halyard | |
| 10. v. singular imperative of fallen | |
| 11. v. colloquial of | |
| präsentieren |
| 1. v. to present, to showcase | |
| 2. v. to introduce | |
| 3. v. present arms | |
| Können |
| 1. n. (gerund of können); skill, ability | |
| 2. v. to be able (to do or be something), to have the possibility of; can. | |
| 3. 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. | |
| 4. 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. | |
| 5. 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. | |
| 6. 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 | |
| 7. 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. | |
| 8. 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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| wird |
| 1. v. third-person singular present 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. | |
| jener |
| 1. pron. (formal) that, that one | |
| Räuber |
| 1. n-m. agent noun of rauben | |
| 2. n-m. robber, thief | |
| 3. n-m. pirate | |
| 4. n-m. (horticulture) sucker | |
| 5. n-m. predator | |
| freigelassen |
| 1. Participle. past participle of freilassen | |
| freilassen |
| 1. v. to release, to free | |
| 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. | |
