| wie |
| 1. adv. how | |
| Wie groß bist du? - How tall are you? | |
| Ich weiß nicht, wie die Katze hereingekommen ist. - I don't know how the cat got in. | |
| Wie wunderbar! - How wonderful! | |
| 2. conj. like | |
| Freunde sind wie Sterne in der Nacht. - Friends are like stars in the night. | |
| 3. conj. as | |
| Wie ihr wisst, bin ich in Dortmund aufgewachsen. - As you know, I grew up in Dortmund. | |
| Ich bin so schnell wie du. - I’m as fast as you are. | |
| 4. conj. (colloquial nonstandard) than | |
| Der Junge ist größer wie sein Vater. - The boy is taller than his father. | |
| 5. conj. (chiefly colloquial) when referring to the past | |
| Ich hab ihn gesehen, wie ich in Köln war. - I saw him when I was in Cologne. | |
| Wie ich zur Tür herauskomme, steht da mein alter Schulfreund. - When I came out the door, my old school-day friend was standing in front of me. | |
| Lange |
| 1. Proper noun. surname, from=nicknames | |
| 2. adv. long, for a long time | |
| 3. adv. in a long time | |
| 4. adj. form of lang | |
| 5. v. first-person singular present of langen | |
| 6. v. first-person singular subjunctive of langen | |
| 7. v. third-person singular subjunctive of langen | |
| 8. v. singular imperative of langen | |
| langen |
| 1. v. (colloquial southern) to reach for something, to grab | |
| 2. v. (colloquial southern) to pass, to hand something to someone | |
| 3. v. (colloquial southern) to suffice, to be enough | |
| Mir langt's. - I've had enough | |
| 4. adj. form of lang | |
| 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. | |
| dieses |
| 1. pron. singular of dieser | |
| 2. pron. genitive singular of dieser | |
| dieser |
| 1. pron. this one, this | |
| 2. pron. that one, that | |
| Schöne |
| Das Schöne ist, dass ich jetzt mehr Freizeit habe. - The nice thing is that I have more free time now. | |
| die Schöne und das Biest - the beauty i.e. the beautiful woman and the beast | |
| 1. n. (obsolete) beauty, the quality of being beautiful | |
| 2. adj. form of schön | |
| 3. v. first-person singular present of schönen | |
| 4. v. first-person singular subjunctive of schönen | |
| 5. v. third-person singular subjunctive of schönen | |
| 6. v. singular imperative of schönen | |
| schönen |
| 1. adj. form of schön | |
| 2. v. to massage; to manipulate (data or a document) to make it more presentable, easier to work with, or to falsify it | |
| Wetter |
| 1. n-n. weather | |
| 2. n-n. storm | |
| 3. adj. form of wett | |
| Anhalten |
| 1. n. gerund of anhalten | |
| 2. v. to stop (cease moving) | |
| Wir müssen an der roten Ampel anhalten. - We have to stop at the red light. | |
| 3. v. to continue, to last | |
| Das schlechte Wetter hält an. - The bad weather continues. | |
| 4. v. to stop, to hold, to keep from moving | |
| Ich halte den Wagen an. - I'm stopping the car. | |
| den Atem/die Luft anhalten - to hold one's breath | |
| ein Taxi anhalten - to hail a taxi | |
| 5. v. to urge, to encourage, to compel (to do something) (often by referring to the matter repeatedly) | |
| 6. v. (dated outside of Austria, reflexive) to hold tight, to hold on to something or someone | |
| 7. v. (dated, with um) to ask for | |
| um die Hand der Tochter anhalten - to ask for one's daughter's hand in marriage | |
