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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 | |
Schallwellen |
1. n. plural of Schallwelle | |
vor |
1. prep. in front of, ahead of (relative location in space) | |
2. prep. before, prior to, ahead of (relative location in time) | |
3. prep. ago (location in the past relative to the present) | |
vor drei Tagen - three days ago | |
vor einiger Zeit - a while ago | |
4. prep. from, against (a threat or negative outcome) | |
Er konnte vor dem Tsunami nicht mehr fliehen. - He couldn't escape (from) the tsunami. | |
Du hast mich vorm Ertrinken gerettet. - You saved me from drowning. | |
vor Verlusten schützen - to protect against losses | |
sich vor jemandem verstecken - to hide from somebody | |
5. prep. (what) with, (out) of (stating cause) | |
vor Freude weinen - to cry with joy | |
Ich sterbe vor Durst. - I'm dying of thirst. | |
Ich kann dich vor all dem Rauch gar nicht sehen. - I can't even see you, what with all the smoke. | |
Vor lauter Angst traute sich keiner im Raum mehr zu atmen. - Nobody in the room dared to breathe out of sheer fright. | |
allem |
1. pron. Dative singular masculine and neutral gender forms of alles ("all"). | |
vor allem |
1. adv. above all (of prime importance), especially | |
in |
1. prep. (with dative) in, inside, within, at (inside a building) | |
Es ist in dem Haus. - It is in the house. | |
Ich habe die Schlüssel im (in dem) Kühlschrank gefunden. - I found the keys in the refrigerator. | |
Unsere Kinder sind in der Schule. - Our kids are at school. | |
Er ist in einem Café. - He is at a coffee shop. | |
Letzte Nacht waren sie im (in dem) Club. - They were at the club last night. | |
2. prep. (with dative) in (pertaining to) | |
in diesem Sinne - in this/that sense | |
3. prep. (with dative) in, at, by (at the end of or during a period of time) | |
Er schloss sein Studium im Alter von vierzehn. - He completed his studies at/by the age of fourteen. | |
im Alter - in old age | |
im Mittelalter - during the middle ages | |
in den 1960er Jahren - in the 1960s | |
4. prep. (with accusative) into, to (going inside (of)) | |
Er geht ins Haus. - He goes into the house. | |
Wir gehen in die Schweiz. - We are going to Switzerland. | |
Wir treten in ein neues Zeitalter ein. - We are coming into a new age. | |
5. adj. in, popular (in fashion) | |
Form |
1. n-f. shape | |
2. n-f. form (order of doing things) | |
3. v. singular imperative of formen | |
4. v. colloquial of | |
von |
1. prep. from | |
Ich fahre von Köln nach Hamburg. - I'm travelling from Cologne to Hamburg. | |
Ich hab’s von meiner Schwester gehört. - I heard it from my sister. | |
2. prep. of, belonging to (often replacing genitive; see usage note below) | |
das Auto meines Vaters - - = uxi = uxi, das Auto von meinem Vater, my father’s car / the car of my father | |
3. prep. by (with passive voice) | |
Das Hotel wird von der Firma bezahlt. - The hotel is paid for by the company. | |
4. prep. about, of (a topic) | |
Er hat von seiner Jugend erzählt. - He told about his youth. | |
5. prep. on, with (a resource) | |
Von welchem Geld soll ich als Arbeitsloser in Urlaub fahren? - Being unemployed, on what money should I go on holidays? | |
Man kann nicht nur von Luft und Liebe leben. - You can’t live on air and love alone. (proverb) | |
Musik |
1. n-f. music | |
Was hörst du für Musik? - What kind of music do you listen to? | |
2. n-f. music as a school subject, musical instruction | |
Musik fällt morgen aus. - Music class is cancelled tomorrow. | |
3. n-f. a musical piece | |
Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Eine kleine Nachtmusik | |
4. n-f. (informal) a band, mostly one performing at some event | |
Die Musik ist noch beim Essen, aber gleich geht’s los. - The band are still eating, but they’ll start soon. | |
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? | |
Sprache |
1. n-f. language (body of words, and set of methods of combining them) | |
Ist Deutsch eine schwere Sprache zu erlernen? - Is German a difficult language to learn? | |
Sie lernt sehr gern Sprachen. - She loves to learn languages. | |
2. n-f. speech (style of speaking) | |
jemandem die Sprache verschlagen - to leave somebody speechless | |
Du benutzt eine sehr gehobene und höfliche Sprache. - Your manner of speech is very elevated and polite. | |
3. n-f. speech (faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak) | |
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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