| wer |
| 1. pron. (interrogative) who (what person or people) | |
| Wer hat das gesagt? - Who said that? | |
| 2. pron. (interrogative, colloquial) what, which (one) (see usage notes) | |
| 3. pron. (relative) whoever, he who, someone who, the person who, anyone who (whatever person or persons) | |
| Wer eine Frage hat, kann sich jetzt melden. - Whoever has a question, put up their hands now. | |
| ux, Wer im Glashaus sitzt, soll nicht mit Steinen werfen., People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. | |
| 4. pron. (indefinite, colloquial) somebody, someone; anybody, anyone (an unspecified person) | |
| Da ist wer an der Tür. - There's somebody at the door. | |
| Aber |
| 1. n. an objection, a but | |
| 2. conj. but; however; though | |
| Ich mag keine Orangen, aber ich mag Äpfel. - I don't like oranges, but I like apples. | |
| 3. adv. (obsolete, except in compounds) again | |
| 4. adv. (qualifier) rather; quite; unusually; used with adjectives to express a surprising degree, whether this surprise be real or for effect | |
| Das ist aber teuer. - That's rather expensive. ≈ That's more expensive than I would’ve thought. | |
| Du bist aber groß geworden! - Look how tall you’ve become! (said to a child) | |
| 5. adv. nonetheless, nevertheless | |
| eine |
| 1. num. feminine singular of ein | |
| 2. art. feminine singular of ein: a, an | |
| 3. pron. feminine singular of einer | |
| 4. pron. masculine nominative singular of einer | |
| 5. pron. singular of einer | |
| Arbeit |
| 1. n-f. toil, regularly performed work, regularly pursued economic activity, labor, job, employment, occupation | |
| Seine Arbeit macht ihm Spaß. - He enjoys his work/job. | |
| Ich kann gerade nicht. Ich bin bei der Arbeit! - I can't do it now. I am at work! | |
| Er war auf dem Weg zur Arbeit. - He was on the way to work. | |
| Er war auf der Arbeit. - He was on his work place. | |
| Während der Arbeit - While doing work. | |
| Während der Arbeitszeit - During work. | |
| Er ging zur Arbeit. - He went to his work place. | |
| uxi, Er ging auf die Arbeit., He went to his work place. | |
| In diesem Dorfe gibt es keine Arbeit. - There are no opportunities for employment in this hamlet. | |
| Er hat keine Arbeit. - He is without employment/He lollygags. | |
| 2. n-f. job, task, assignment | |
| Ich muss zuvor noch einige Arbeiten erledigen. - First I have to complete some assignments/finish some jobs. | |
| Er ging an die Arbeit. - He tackled his job. | |
| 3. n-f. effort, work, human expenditure | |
| Das ist mir zu viel Arbeit. - This is too much effort for me. | |
| Nach der Operation muss für zwei bis drei Tage die Arbeit gemieden werden. - After the surgical operation work should be avoided for two to three days. | |
| 4. n-f. performance, workmanship, work, the result of effort that might consist in a product or performance itself depending on what is owed(refn, group=n, name=n2, According to the German contract law there | |
| Sagenhafte Arbeit! - Great work! | |
| Gute Arbeit muss belohnt werden. - Decent work must be requited. | |
| 5. n-f. (physics) work, energy transmitted by force through a body | |
| ablehnt |
| 1. v. third-person singular present of ablehnen | |
| 2. v. second-person plural present of ablehnen | |
| dem |
| 1. art. dative singular of der: the | |
| 2. pron. dative singular of der: to whom, to which | |
| 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. | |
| die |
| 1. art. feminine singular of der | |
| die Frau - the woman | |
| 2. art. plural of der | |
| die Männer - the men | |
| 3. pron. feminine singular of der | |
| 4. pron. plural of der | |
| 5. pron. (in a subordinate clause as a relative pronoun) that; which; who; whom; whose | |
| Ich kenne eine Frau, die das kann. - I know a woman who can do that. | |
| 6. pron. (as a demonstrative pronoun) this one; that one; these ones; those ones; she; her; it; they; them | |
| die da - that one/she/they there | |
| der |
| 1. art. the | |
| 2. art. feminine singular of der | |
| 3. art. genitive plural of der | |
| 4. pron. who; that; which | |
| Ich kenne einen Mann, der das kann. - I know a man who can do that. | |
| 5. pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) whom, which, that | |
| 6. pron. (attributive, stressed) that | |
| Der Mann war es! - It was that man! | |
| 7. pron. (indicative) him, he | |
| Der hat es getan! - It was him who did it! | |
| 8. pron. (differential) the one, him | |
| Der mit dem Mantel - The one with the coat | |
| 9. pron. feminine dative singular of der: (to) that, (to) her | |
| Stütze |
| 1. n-f. (also, figuratively) support, prop (in the form of a pillar, strut) | |
| 2. n-f. (colloquial) (unemployment, etc.) benefits; dole | |
| auf Stütze sein - to be on the dole | |
| 3. v. first-person singular present of stützen | |
| 4. v. first-person singular subjunctive of stützen | |
| 5. v. third-person singular subjunctive of stützen | |
| 6. v. singular imperative of stützen | |
| gekürzt |
| 1. Participle. past participle of kürzen | |
| 2. adj. (literature) abridged | |
| kürzen |
| 1. v. to shorten | |
| 2. v. to abbreviate | |
| 3. v. (literature) to abridge | |
| 4. v. (mathematics) to cancel (a fraction, equation or term) | |
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