| 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. | |
| dieser |
| 1. pron. this one, this | |
| 2. pron. that one, that | |
| Plan |
| 1. n. project | |
| 2. n. plan (way of procedure) | |
| 3. n. technical drawing or diagram | |
| 4. n. detailed map | |
| 5. n. (colloquial) idea, clue (insight or understanding) | |
| Ich hab davon keinen Plan. - I have no idea about that. | |
| 6. adj. (technical) planar, flat, level, smooth | |
| Auch |
| 1. Proper noun. , common in Southern Germany as an occupational surname for those who watched livestock at night | |
| 2. adv. also; too; as well (in addition to whatever or whoever has previously been listed) | |
| Ich will auch ein Eis. - Stress on “auch”: I too want icecream. | |
| Ich will auch ein Eis. - Stress on “Eis”: I want icecream, too. | |
| 3. adv. Used for emphasis. | |
| 4. adv. (To confirm a preceding statement by someone else): really, actually, indeed, in fact | |
| Ich will auch ein Eis. - Stress on “will”: I do indeed want icecream. | |
| Das ist auch so. - Stress on “ist”: It really is like that. | |
| Du solltest zur Polizei gehen. ― Mach ich auch. - You should go to the police. ― I will. | |
| 5. adv. (To ask for confirmation of something one considers necessary.) | |
| Hast du das Licht auch ausgemacht? - Did you make sure to turn off the light? | |
| 6. adv. (To imply that something is unreasonable.) | |
| Du bist auch witzig... Wie soll ich das denn ohne Auto alles schaffen?! - You’re oh so ingenious... How am I supposed to get all of this done wit | |
| Warum müssen die auch alle ihren Müll hier abladen! - Why do they all have to dump their rubbish here! | |
| 7. adv. even ((implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality)) | |
| Auch wenn das stimmt, ist es noch kein endgültiger Beweis. - Even if this is true, it is no definite proof. | |
| Auch ein Professor schreibt schon mal was falsch. - Even a professor may misspell something at times. | |
| 8. adv. ever (as in whatever, whenever, however, etc.) | |
| Was du auch tust, es wird immer einer besser sein. - Whatever you do, someone will always do it better. | |
| 9. interj. (in answering a yes-no question, used to express that the thing asked about covers part of the truth but not all of it); “yes, and more” | |
| Ach, du bist Bauingenieur. Dann baust du Brücken? — Auch. - Oh, you’re a construction engineer. So you build bridges? — Yeah. And other things, too. | |
| bestimmt |
| 1. Participle. past participle of bestimmen t=to determine | |
| 2. adj. certain | |
| 3. adj. determined | |
| 4. adj. (grammar) definite | |
| 5. adv. certainly, definitely | |
| 6. v. third-person singular present of bestimmen | |
| 7. v. second-person plural present of bestimmen | |
| 8. v. plural imperative of bestimmen | |
| Aufgehen |
| 1. n. gerund of aufgehen | |
| 2. v. to open, come undone | |
| Die Schnürsenkel gehen immer auf. - The shoelaces always come undone. | |
| Die Tür ging auf. - The door opened. | |
| 3. v. to rise, expand (of dough etc.) | |
| Der Teig muss erst aufgehen. - The dough needs to rise first. | |
| 4. v. to rise, come up (of a celestial body) | |
| Der Mond geht auf. - The moon is rising. | |
| 5. v. to work out | |
| der Plan geht nicht auf - the plan doesn't work | |
| 6. v. (maths, figurative) to add up, to come out even | |
| die Rechnung geht nicht auf - the bill doesn't add up | |
| 7. v. to sprout, germinate | |
| die Saat ist aufgegangen - the seed has sprouted | |
| 8. v. (with in + dative) to disintegrate; to be integrated into; to be absorbed by; to disappear into | |
| in Flammen aufgehen - to go up in flames | |
| in der Masse aufgehen - to disappear into the crowd | |
| in einem anderen Unternehmen aufgehen - to be absorbed by another company | |
| 9. v. (of hunting season) to open | |
