Sonnenallee--Vokabelideen



Sonnenallee--Vokabelideen

|die Ahnung |hunch, presentiment |Ich hatte keine Ahnung, dass… = I had no idea that… |

|auf•fordern |to ask someone to do something |jemanden zum Tanzen auffordern = to ask someone to dance |

|aufgeregt |excited, agitated, unsettled | |

|der Augenblick, -e |moment, instant | |

|ausgerechnet |of all (things, times, places, |ausgerechnet in dem Moment…, Warum ausgerechnet ich? |

| |people etc.) | |

|der Ausweis, -e, der |ID | |

|Personalausweis, -e | | |

|bauen |to build | |

|(sich) begegnen; die Begegnung, |to encounter, to meet; encounter | |

|-en | | |

|begeistert |enthusiastic | |

|(be)merken |to notice; to note (that) |"merken" and "bemerken" are very similar, but "merken" can't take an |

| | |object (Ich habe das Problem gemerkt bemerkt). |

|beobachten |to observe, to watch |Used when one is watching something fairly closely; not used e.g. for |

| | |watching TV or "watching the kids" |

|besonders |especially |e.g. besonders gut/schlecht/viel/schön. NOT used for e.g. "I did this |

| | |especially for you" |

|dauernd |constantly | |

|echt |real, genuine |Can also be used informally to mean "really" (as in "very"): echt gut, |

| | |echt toll, echt viel… |

|eigentlich |actually, really; also used as a |Ich hab eigentlich keine Zeit = I don't really have time; Was hat sie |

| |particle in questions to indicate |eigentlich getan? = What did she actually do?; Wir könnten eigentlich |

| |one's interest in the answer |mal zusammen lernen = We could actually/really study together sometime;|

| | |Was willst du eigentlich? = What do you actually want? |

|eng |narrow (space/mentality), intimate|Du darfst das nicht so eng sehen = You can't look at that so narrowly; |

| |(friendship, relationship) |eine enge Freundschaft = an intimate friendship; eine enge Wohnung = a |

| | |cramped apartment; eng beieinander = close together; enge Gassen = |

| | |narrow/cramped alleyways |

|die Freiheit, -en |freedom | |

|der Frieden |peace | |

|das Gedächtnis |(capacity for) memory | |

|genau |exactly, precisely | |

|geschehen, es geschieht, geschah, |to happen |slightly more formal than "passieren" |

|ist geschehen | | |

|die Grenze, -n |border, boundary, limit | |

|irgendwann, irgendwie, irgendwo |sometime, somehow, somewhere etc. | |

|etc. | | |

|der Krebs |cancer | |

|lügen, log, hat gelogen |to lie | |

|die Menschenrechte |human rights | |

|Mist! |Crap! | |

|nicken |to nod | |

|die Partei, -en |political party | |

|passieren (ist passiert) |to happen |slightly less formal than "geschehen" |

|die Platte, -n, die Schallplatte, |(vinyl) record | |

|-n | | |

|plötzlich |sudden, suddenly | |

|die Rede, -n |speech | |

|retten |to save (from danger) |[to save money = sparen] |

|sich sehnen nach |to long for, to yearn for |die Sehnsucht = longing, yearning |

|die Stimmung |mood | |

|stolz |proud | |

|die Strafe, -n |punishment |bestrafen = to punish |

|tatsächlich |real(ly), actual(ly) |Das ist dann tatsächlich passiert = That really ended up happening; |

| | |Sein tatsächliches Alter war unbekannt = His actual age was unknown; |

| | |Ich hab tatsächlich meinen eigenen Geburtstag vergessen = I actually |

| | |forgot my own birthday; die tatsächlichen Umstände = the actual |

| | |circumstances; Tatsächlich!? = Is that a fact!?; Tatsächlich! = It's |

| | |really true! |

|(sich) treffen, er/sie/es trifft, |to meet; to hit a target | |

|traf, hat getroffen | | |

|trotzdem |nevertheless | |

|unterbrechen, er/sie/es |to interrupt | |

|unterbricht, unterbrach, hat | | |

|unterbrochen | | |

|sich verabschieden |to say good bye | |

|verboten |forbidden | |

|versuchen (hat versucht) |to try (to do something) | |

|vorbei |over; vorbei an = past (used with |Es ist vorbei = It's over! |

| |locations) | |

|sich (Dat) etwas vorstellen |to imagine something | |

|wagen (hat gewagt) |to dare | |

|das Zeichen, - |sign |street signs and other posted signs are "das Schild, -er" |

| | |==> gutes/schlechtes Zeichen; ein Zeichen, dass… |

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