German–English dictionary

Erlenbaum

Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.

erlernt

Derived from experience; acquired by learning.

erlesen

Especially good or preferred.

erleuchtet

Exceedingly wise.

Erleuchtung

An illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.

erliegen

To give way to (a habit or temptation); to not oppose or restrain.

Erlös

Revenue; gross revenue.

erloschen

No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.

erlösen

To set free from restraint or danger.

erlösend

Purgative; inducing mental or physical catharsis.

Erlöser

honorific title for Jesus Christ

Erlöserin

A person who frees or liberates.

Erlösung

The act of setting free or extricating from danger, imprisonment, bondage, evil, etc.

ermächtigen

(transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.

Ermächtigung

(countable) An act of authorizing.

ermahnen

(transitive) To inform or notify of a fault; to rebuke in a serious tone; to tell off.

Ermahnung

The act of admonishing; a reprimand or rebuke.

Ermäßigung

A reduction in price.

ermatten

(intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.

ermattet

Worn out, wearied, exhausted or lacking enthusiasm, due to age or experience.

Ermattung

Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.

Ermessen

The freedom to make one's own judgements.

Ermessens-

(usually, of a decision) Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random.

ermitteln

(transitive) To examine, look into, or scrutinize in order to discover something hidden or secret.

ermitteln (IP-Adresse)

To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

Ermitteln des Ortes

(algebra) A ring of fractions of a given ring, such that the complement of the set of allowed denominators is an ideal.

Ermittler

(law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.

Ermittlerin

(law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.

ermogeln

(transitive) To obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods, by trickery.

ermöglichen

(transitive) To render physically possible.

Ermöglichung

The act of enabling.

ermorden

(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.

Ermordung

The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.

ermüden

(transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.

ermüdend

Inducing laziness.

Ermüdung

A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.

Ermüdungsrede

(US politics) A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.

ermuntern

(transitive, idiomatic) To make someone happier or less downcast.

Ermunterung

The act of encouraging

ermutigen

(transitive, crime) To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime. [ca. 1350–1470]

ermutigend

Giving comfort, especially in the sense of soothing distress.

ermutigt

Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased, euphoric.

Ermutigung

The act of encouraging

ernähren

(transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat.

ernährend

That provides nourishment; nutritious.

Ernährung

The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

Ernährungsberater

A person who studies or practices dietetics.

Ernährungsberaterin

A person who studies or practices dietetics.

ernennen

(transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).

Ernennung

The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust

Erneuerer

Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.

Erneuererin

Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.

erneuern

(intransitive) To introduce something new to a particular environment; to do something new.

Erneuerung

A major repair, renovation, or revision.

erneut

Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion. [from 16thc.]

erneut aufnehmen

To photograph or film again.

erneut beginnen

(intransitive) To start again after an interruption or pause.

erneut nehmen

To take something again.

erniedrigen

(transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate. [from c. 1350–1470]

erniedrigend

Causing or likely to cause someone to feel degraded.

erniedrigt

Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable. [from early 15th c.]

erniedrigter Ton

(music) A note played one chromatic semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).

Erniedrigung

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low. [Mid 16th century.]

Erniedrigungszeichen

(music) A note played one chromatic semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).

Ernst

A en given name; popular in the 19th century.

ernsthaft

Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important.

Ernsthaftigkeit

Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.

ernstzunehmend

That can be assigned; assignable.

Ernte

The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.

Erntedank

(Canada, US) The long weekend which includes Thanksgiving Day; Thanksgiving weekend.

Erntedankfest

(UK) church festival celebrating the harvest, held at the end of September or the beginning of October

Erntegut

(agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

Erntehelfer

(dated) A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

Erntehelferin

(dated) A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

erntelos

Bearing no fruit; barren.

ernten

(rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

Ernter

A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

Ernting

The eighth month of the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, following July and preceding September.

ernüchtern

(often with, _, up) To make or become sober.

Ernüchterung

A feeling of disappointment, akin to depression, arising from the realization that something is not what it was expected or believed to be, possibly accompanied by philosophical angst from having one's beliefs challenged.

Eroberer

Someone who conquers.

Erobererin

Someone who conquers.

erobern

(mostly in the passive, followed by "of" or "with") To cause to be in love.

erodieren

(transitive, geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.

eröffnen

(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.

Eröffnung

The first few moves in a game.

Eröffnungs-

Marking the beginning of an operation, venture, etc.

Eröffnungsstoß

(billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.

Eröffnungsvorstellung

The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.

erogen

Sensitive to sexual arousal.

erörtern

(intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle.

Erörterung

Conversation or debate concerning a particular topic.

Erosion

The removal of sediment caused by swiftly moving water.

Erosionsfläche

A place scoured out by running water, as in the bed of a stream below a waterfall.

Erosionsrinne

A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.

Erotik

(uncountable) Erotic literature, art, decoration, or other such work.

erotisch

Indicating love or sexual desire.

erotische Anziehungskraft

Sexual attractiveness. [from 1910s]

Erpel

A male duck.

erpicht

Earnestly desirous.

erpressen

(Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.

Erpresser

Someone who blackmails.

Erpresserin

Someone who blackmails.

Erpressung

The extortion of money or favors by threats of public accusation, critique, or exposure.

Erpressungssoftware

(computer security) Malware that holds the data of a computer user for ransom, usually requiring or claiming to require payment to restore access.

Erpressungstrojaner

(computer security) Malware that holds the data of a computer user for ransom, usually requiring or claiming to require payment to restore access.

erproben

To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.

Erprobung

(education) A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks; typically, a large, written test administered to high school and college students covering course material studied in a semester.

erquicken

(transitive) To renew or revitalize.

errant

Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits.

erraten

(transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.

erratisch

Unsteady, random; prone to unexpected changes; not consistent.

erratische Verfassung

(uncountable) A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking).

errechnen

(transitive) To reckon, calculate.

errechnet

(finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.

erregbar

In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.

erregen

(transitive) To stimulate or induce (feelings); pique.

Erregerstamm

(biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.

erregt

Having a feeling of anxiety or disquietude; extremely concerned, especially about something that will happen in the future or that is unknown.

Erregtheit

The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.

Erregtsein

The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.

Erregung

The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.

erreichbar

Capable of being achieved, which either means possible or probable.

Erreichbarkeit

The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptiveness.

erreichen

(transitive, obsolete) To finish; to accomplish. [Attested from the late 16th century until the early 19th century.]

erreicht

Completed; effected; established.

Erreichtes

That which is attained, or obtained by exertion.

erretten

(Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.

Erretter

A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.

Erretterin

A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.

errichten

To begin building.

Errichtung

(uncountable) The act of building or putting up or together of something.

Erröten

An act of blushing; a pink or red glow on the face caused by embarrassment, shame, shyness, love, etc.

erröten lassen

To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.

Errötung

A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.

Errungenschaft

That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.

Ersatz

Making amends to restore a damaged relationship; expiation.

Ersatz leisten

(ambitransitive) To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency. [from 1680s]

Ersatz-

A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).

Ersatzmutterschaft

The practice of being a surrogate mother.

Ersatzspieler

A person or thing that takes the place of another; a substitute.

ersatzweise

in an alternative way

Erschaffen

(uncountable) The act of creating something.

Erschaffer

(social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.

Erschafferin

(social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.

Erschaffung

(uncountable) The act of creating something.

erschallen

To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.

Erschaudern

(countable) A gesture or posture of cringing (recoiling or shrinking).

erschauern

(ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.

erschauern lassen

(ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.