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audiovisuelle
Medien
     1. n. plural of Medium
     Medium
          1. n. (usually in the plural) media, medium (format for communicating or presenting information)
          2. n. medium (the nature of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum or a specific substance)
          3. n. medium (someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world)
          4. n. (linguistics) middle voice
Fernsehsendungen
     1. n. plural of Fernsehsendung
Filme
     1. n. plural of Film
     2. v. first-person singular present of filmen
     3. v. first-person singular subjunctive of filmen
     4. v. third-person singular subjunctive of filmen
     5. v. singular imperative of filmen
     Film
          1. n. film (a thin layer of some substance)
          2. n. (photography) photographic film
          3. n. motion picture
oder
     1. conj. or
           Danach alles gestr. oder noch 1–2 Wörter? - Is everything after that crossed out or are there one or two more words?
     2. part. (tag question) right?; is it?; is it not?
           Es ist kalt heute, oder? - It’s cold today, isn’t it?
           Das war keine so gute Idee, oder? - That wasn’t such a good idea, was it?
           Du kommst aus Deutschland, oder? - You’re from Germany, aren’t you?
dergleichen
     1. pron. such
           Dergleichen Fälle gibt es hier zuhauf. - Such cases are numerous around here.
           Dergleichen Bier findet man sonst nirgends. - One won’t find such beer anywhere else.
           Dergleichen ist auch vorher schon vorgekommen. - Such a thing has already occurred before.
     2. pron. suchlike, the like
           Mörder, Totschläger und dergleichen - murderers, manslaughterers and suchlike
magnetisch
     1. adj. (physics) magnetic
aufgezeichnet
     1. Participle. past participle of aufzeichnen
     aufzeichnen
          1. v. to plot, to chart
          2. v. to trace
          3. v. to record, to note
                Ich zeichne meine Gedanken oft in einem Tagebuch auf. - I often record my thoughts in a diary.
          4. v. to register
und
     1. conj. (co-ordinating) and
           Kaffee und Kuchen - coffee and cake
           Ich kam, sah und siegte. - I came, saw, and conquered.
     2. conj. (colloquial) links two nouns, often a person and an activity, in rhetoric questions to express an opposition between them
           Er und Abwaschen? Vielleicht einmal im Jahr! - Him doing the dishes? Maybe once per year!
     3. interj. so?, now?, and?
           Und? Wie ist es gelaufen? - So? How did it go?
infolgedessen
     1. adv. consequently, hence, as a result
gespeichert
     1. Participle. past participle of speichern
     2. adj. stored, saved
     speichern
          1. v. to store, save (keep safe for future use)
                Ein Stausee ist dazu da, Wasser für trockene Zeiten zu speichern. - A reservoir is used to store water for dry periods.
                Dunkle Steine speichern die Sonnenwärme besser als helle. - Dark stones store the sun’s warmth better than light ones.
                In Wüsten überleben manche Pflanzen die Dürre, indem sie Wasser in ihren Stängeln oder Wurzeln speichern. - In deserts, some plants survive the drought by storing water in their stalks or roots
          2. v. (computing, video games, ambitransitive) to save (write data to a storage medium)
                Den Text müssen wir auf der Festplatte speichern. - We have to save the text to the hard drive.
          3. v. (thence colloquial) to memorize, remember
                Entschuldige, wie war nochmal dein Name? Den hab ich irgendwie nicht gespeichert. - So sorry, what was your name again? I somehow can't seem to remember it.
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.
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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