- nice; friendly; likable
- kind; sweet; helpful
- nice; okay; decent; often expressing a more reluctant praise
- Positive
- nett
- Comparative
- netter
- Superlative
- am nettesten
Nett bei Ihnen.
What an unusual place!
- week (period of seven days counting from Monday to Sunday, or from Sunday to Saturday)
- week (any period of seven consecutive days)
- week; weekdays (those days of a given week on which most people work)
- Article
- die Woche
- Plural
- die Wochen
- Genitive
- des Woche
Nicht diese Woche.
Not this week.
Gib mir drei Wochen.
Give me three weeks.
Gebt mir drei Wochen.
Give me three weeks.
- age, old age
- antiquity
- epoch, age
- Article
- das Alter
- Plural
- die Alter (unchanged)
- Genitive
- des Alters
Wir sind gleichen Alters.
We're the same age.
Er hat mein Alter.
He's my age.
Ich habe dein Alter.
I'm your age.
- country (territory of a nation)
- state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
- land (real estate or landed property)
- land (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
- Article
- das Land
- Plural
- die Länder
- Genitive
- des Landes
Was für ein Land!
What a country!
Dieses Land gehört ihm.
He owns this land.
Ich liebe mein Land.
I love my country.
- room (separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling)
- timber
- Article
- das Zimmer
- Plural
- die Zimmer (unchanged)
- Genitive
- des Zimmers
In meinem Zimmer.
Up in my room.
Das ist Zimmer 839.
This is Room 839.
Wo ist Zimmer 105?
Where is Room 105?
= Raum
- four (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 4; or describing a set with four elements)
In vier Tagen.
Four days from now.
Er spricht vier Sprachen.
He speaks four languages.
Eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf.
Well, one, two, three, four, five.
- female equivalent of Freund
- Article
- die Freundin
- Plural
- die Freundinnen
- Genitive
- des Freundin
Von einem Freund.
A friend.
Wir sind Freundinnen.
We're friends.
Ich liebe meine Freundinnen.
I love my friends.
- bed (piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, for resting or sleeping on; one's place of sleep or rest)
- bed (bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river)
- Article
- das Bett
- Plural
- die Betten
- Genitive
- des Bettes
Mach dein Bett!
Make your bed.
Mach die Betten.
Make the beds.
Alles in die Betten!
Get to bed!
- bad, evil, wicked (the opposite of good; immoral)
- bad (unskilled; of limited ability)
- bad (unhealthy, unwell)
- bad (of poor physical appearance)
- Positive
- schlecht
- Comparative
- schlechter
- Superlative
- am schlechtesten
Ich bin schlecht.
I'm bad.
Ist es schlecht?
Is it bad?
Es war schlecht.
It was bad.
- school (an institution dedicated to teaching and learning (especially before university); department/institute at a college or university; art movement; followers of a particular doctrine)
- school, shoal (of fish)
- pod (group of whales or similar mammals)
- a synagogue
- Article
- die Schule
- Plural
- die Schulen
- Genitive
- des Schule
Ist heute Schule?
Do we have class today?
Auf in die Schule!
On your way to school.
Es ist meine Schule.
I'm going to be at the school.
- apology (expression of remorse or regret)
- excuse (explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment)
- note (written excusal for being late or absent from school)
- Article
- die Entschuldigung
- Plural
- die Entschuldigungen
- Genitive
- des Entschuldigung
Ich habe keine Entschuldigung.
I have no excuse.
Das ist keine Entschuldigung.
That's no excuse.
Ich wollte eine Entschuldigung.
I wanted an apology.
- word as an isolated unit
- utterance, word with context
- speech, speaking, (figuratively) floor
- promise, (figuratively) word
- Article
- das Wort
- Plural
- die Wörter
- Genitive
- des Wortes
Sag kein Wort.
Don't say a word.
Sprich kein Wort!
Don't say anything.
Kein Wort mehr!
Don't say another word.
- to sleep
- to sleep on something; to wait and think before making a decision
- to sleep with; to have sex
- Present (er/sie/es)
- schläft
- Preterite
- schlief
- Past participle
- hat geschlafen
Er schläft nur.
He's just resting.
Ich gehe schlafen.
I'm gonna hit the hay.
Gehen Sie schlafen!
Go to bed.
= pennen
- below
- south
- at a later point in a text
Schneller, da unten.
Step lively down there.
Wo da unten?
Where downstairs?
Ich bin unten.
I'm downstairs.
≠ oben
- to drink (to drink liquids (in bottles, glasses, etc.) by mouth)
- to drink, to imbibe (to consume alcoholic beverages)
- to drink; to toast (engage in a salutation (of someone), accompanying the raising of glasses while drinking alcohol)
- to drink one's fill; to drink to satiety
- Present (er/sie/es)
- trinkt
- Preterite
- trank
- Past participle
- hat getrunken
Sie trinken nichts?
aren't you drinking?
Trink etwas Wasser!
Get a drink of water.
Hast du getrunken?
Were you drinking?
= see Thesaurus:betrinken
- inflection of einig:
Schon einige Zeit.
For quite some time.
Wir hatten einige Fragen.
We had some questions.
Ich bleibe einige Tage.
I'm going to be here several days.
- happy; both momentarily and generally in life
- lucky; fortunate
- Positive
- glücklich
- Comparative
- glücklicher
- Superlative
- am glücklichsten
Ich bin glücklich.
I'm happy.
Er ist glücklich.
He is happy.
Ich war glücklich.
I was happy.
= froh≠ unglücklich≠ glücklos
- old
- ancient
- elderly (inflected in the comparative)
- Positive
- alt
- Comparative
- älter
- Superlative
- am ältesten
Fünf Jahre alt?
Five years old?
≠ jung
- to see again, to meet again
- Present (er/sie/es)
- sieht wieder
- Preterite
- sah wieder
- Past participle
- hat wiedergesehen
Wiedersehen mein Junge.
Goodbye, kid.
Wir müssen uns wiedersehen.
But we must see each other again.
Ich habe ihn wiedergesehen.
I saw him again.
- free; unenslaved; unimprisoned
- free; unrestricted; more negative also: unrestrained; licentious
- unblocked; free for passage
- independent; unaffiliated
- Positive
- frei
- Comparative
- freier
- Superlative
- am freiesten
Wir sind frei.
We're free.
Ich bin frei.
I'm free now.
= ungezwungen= ungebunden= liberal= freiheitlich= kostenlos≠ unfrei
- square, plaza, piazza
- circus
- space, room
- place, seat, spot, position (precise location someone or something occupies)
- Article
- der Platz
- Plural
- die Plätze
- Genitive
- des Platzes
Nehmen Sie Platz.
Have a seat.
Ich brauche Platz.
I need space.
Wir brauchen Platz.
We need space.
- false, unfactual, untrue
- wrong (incorrect)
- wrong (disadvantageous)
- wrong (immoral)
- Positive
- falsch
- Comparative
- falscher
- Superlative
- am falschesten
Das ist falsch.
This is wrong.
Etwas war falsch.
Something was wrong.
Das wäre falsch.
This would be a mistake.
= unwahr= verkehrt= inkorrekt= ungünstig= unecht≠ wahr≠ wahrhaftig≠ richtig
- number; see usage notes below
- issue (of a magazine, etc.)
- size (of shoes or clothes)
- song; composition
- Article
- die Nummer
- Plural
- die Nummern
- Genitive
- des Nummer
Nach seiner Nummer.
The Act Over.
Macht die Nummer!
Come on! Help me!
Jetzt, Nummer eins.
Now you take No. 1, for instance.
= Größe
- early
- Positive
- früh
- Comparative
- früher
- Superlative
- am frühesten
Ja, morgen früh.
Sure, tomorrow.
Ich ging früh.
I left early.
- to be allowed (to do something); to be permitted (to do something); may
- to be allowed or permitted to do something implied or previously stated; may
- expresses a prediction with mild doubt, that something is estimated or probable
- must, to have [got] to, gotta
- Present (er/sie/es)
- darf
- Preterite
- durfte
- Past participle
- hat gedurft
Darf ich gehen?
May I go?
Ja, du darfst.
Yes, you may.
Sie dürfen gehen.
You may go.
= bedürfen
- telephone
- Article
- das Telefon
- Plural
- die Telefone
- Genitive
- des Telefons
Mit dem Telefon!
On the telephone!
Schnell, das Telefon.
Give me the phone, quick.
Ich höre das Telefon.
I hear the phone.
= Fernsprecher
- ten (numerical value represented in Arabic numerals as 10)
Fünf, zehn, 15 und 22.
Five, ten, fifteen and twenty-two.
Es ist zehn Uhr.
It's ten o'clock.
Er kennt zehn Sprachen.
He knows ten languages.
- slow (taking a long time to move or travel; not happening in a short time)
- Positive
- langsam
- Comparative
- langsamer
- Superlative
- am langsamsten
Er läuft langsam.
He walks slowly.
Bitte sprich langsam!
Please speak slowly.
Bitte sprecht langsam!
Please speak slowly.
≠ schnell
- six (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 6; or describing a set with six elements)
Zimmer Nummer sechs.
Cottage no. 6.
Es sind sechs.
Six of us.
Ja, sechs Frauen.
That's right. Six women.
- to love, to have a strong affection for (someone or something)
- to love one another
- to make love, to have sex
- Present (er/sie/es)
- liebt
- Preterite
- liebte
- Past participle
- hat geliebt
Ihr liebt mich?
You love me?
Ich liebe Sie.
I love you.
Lieben Sie ihn?
do you love him?