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da
     1. adv. (local) there; here
           Wir fahren nach Hamburg. Meine Frau hat eine Freundin, die da wohnt. - We’re going to Hamburg. My wife has a friend who lives there.
           Die Gäste sind noch nicht da. - The guests aren’t here yet.
     2. adv. (temporal) then; so; at that moment
           Ich war gerade eingeschlafen, und da kam ein Anruf. - I had just fallen asleep, and that’s when someone called.
           Er hat immer weiter auf mich eingeschrien. Da bin ich einfach gegangen. - He just kept on shouting at me. So I just left.
     3. adv. (colloquial) (replaces any takes a reflexive pronoun adverb when the context is clear)
           Ich wollte eigentlich Linsensuppe machen, aber da (= dafür, dazu) hatte ich das Rezept nicht.
             I was actually going to make lentil soup, but I didn’t have the recipe for it.
           Wir haben jetzt ein Angebot gekriegt, aber da (= darüber) müssen wir noch diskutieren.
             We’ve now received an offer, but we’ll still need to have discussion about that.
     4. conj. since; as; because; given that
           Da die Stelle mit häufigen Auslandskontakten verbunden ist, sind gute Fremdsprachenkenntnisse unerlässlich. - Since the position involves frequent international contacts, good foreign-language
     5. conj. (literary, dated) when
           Am Tag, da die Wahrheit offenbar wird, ist es zur Umkehr zu spät. - On the day when the Truth will become manifest, it will be too late for penitence.
rannte
     1. v. first-person singular preterite of rennen ("I ran")
     2. v. third-person singular preterite of rennen ("he ran")
     rennen
          1. v. to run; to race; to sprint (said of competing sportsmen, animals etc.) (+aux, sein)
                So schnell wie Mike rennt niemand in der Klasse. - In this class, nobody runs as fast as Mike.
                Der Gepard ist das Säugetier, welches am schnellsten rennen kann. - The cheetah is the mammal which can run the fastest.
          2. v. to run over (someone) (+aux, haben)
                jemanden zu Boden rennen - to run someone to the ground
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
Weiße
     1. n. female equivalent of Weißer: white female, Caucasian female
     2. n. one of a variety of beers, including the Bavarian weissbier, but especially the one called Berliner Weiße
     3. n. plural of Weißer
     4. n. nominative singular of Weißer
     5. n. whiteness
     6. n. (obsolete, or dialectal) Alternative form of Weizen
     7. adj. form of weiß
     8. v. first-person singular present of weißen
     9. v. singular imperative of weißen
     10. v. first-person singular subjunctive of weißen
     11. v. third-person singular subjunctive of weißen
     weiß
          1. adj. white
          2. v. first-person singular present of wissen
                ich - Ich weiß das bereits.
                ich - Ich weiß nicht.
          3. v. third-person singular present of wissen
                er - Er weiß das bereits.
                er - Er weiß nicht.
     weißen
          1. v. to whiten
          2. adj. form of weiß
Hirsch
     1. n. deer
     2. n. (humorous) two-wheeler (e.g. bicycle, moped, motorbike)
vorbei
     1. adj. (predicative) over, past, up (of time)
           Es ist vorbei zwischen uns. - It's over between us.
     2. prep. past (a place) (+preo, an, dative)
           vorbei an der Ampel - past the traffic light
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