German–English dictionary

Erzherzogin

A daughter or granddaughter of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, or the wife of a son or grandson of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary

erziehen

To raise or rear (children).

Erzieher

A person distinguished for their educational work, a teacher.

Erzieherin

a governess or nanny.

Erziehung

(uncountable) The process of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.

Erziehungsberechtigte

(legal) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).

Erziehungsberechtigter

(legal) A person legally responsible for a minor (in loco parentis).

erzielbar

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

Erzielen

The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by exertion or effort.

Erzieltes

That which is attained, or obtained by exertion.

Erzielung

The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by exertion or effort.

Erzketzer

(religion) The founder of a heresy, or a major ecclesiastical proponent of such a heresy. [from mid 16th c.]

erzürnen

(transitive, figurative) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.

erzürnt

Extremely angry; wrathful; enraged.

Erzvater

The male head of a household or nuclear family.

erzwingen

(transitive) To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.

erzwungen

Obtained forcefully, not naturally.

es

A possessive marker, indicating that an object belongs to the noun or noun phrase bearing the marker.

es gibt X noch

(informal, predicative, _, only, with the verb "to be") Alive; existing.

es heimzahlen

(transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.

es heißt

(impersonal, transitive) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.

es mag keine weitere Bewandtnis haben, aber

Considering what limited worth this advice, opinion, or suggestion might have for you; used to soften the presentation of unsolicited advice or information that may not be relevant.

es satthaben

Tired of or annoyed by something [with of].

es sei denn

Except on a specified condition; if not.

es sich an etwas gütlich tun

(figurative) To gratify a morbid appetite or craving.

es sich bequem machen

(intransitive) To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.

es sich gemütlich machen

To settle oneself comfortably and snugly.

es sich gut gehen lassen (auf Kosten anderer)

(figurative) Followed by on: to prosper or thrive, especially at the expense of others.

es tut mir leid

(with an upward inflection) Indicates that the speaker is confused or requests information to be repeated; come again?, say again?, I beg your pardon?; see also Thesaurus:say again

Esch

A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.

Esche

(uncountable) The wood of this tree.

eschen

Made from the wood of the ash-tree.

Eschenholz

(uncountable) The wood of this tree.

Escort

A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.

ese

Used to form nouns meaning the jargon or language used by a particular profession or being or in a particular context.

Esel

A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse.

Eselei

(countable) An asinine remark, behaviour, etc.

eselhaft

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys.

eselig

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys.

Eselsbrücke

Something (especially a series of ideas, letters, words, etc.) used to help in remembering a thing; a memory aid.

Eselsfeige

(originally) A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig, found in Egypt and Syria.

Eselsohr

The folded corner of the page of a book or other publication, either due to having been read many times or intentionally as a sort of bookmark.

Eselsschrei

The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel.

eskalieren

(ambitransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.

Eskapade

(often, in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.

Esker

A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.

Eskimo

In, of, or relating to the Eskimo languages.

Eskorte

A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.

eskortieren

To accompany; to escort.

Esoterik

The inward forms of faith and religion; transcendence, mystic experience, and internal realizations of the Divine.

Espe

A poplar tree, especially of section Populus sect. Populus, of medium-size trees with thin, straight trunks of a greenish-white color.

Espenholz

A poplar tree, especially of section Populus sect. Populus, of medium-size trees with thin, straight trunks of a greenish-white color.

Esplanade

A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town.

Espresso

A concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing hot water under high pressure through finely ground coffee.

Essay

(publishing) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.

Essayist

One who composes essays; a writer of short compositions.

Essayistin

One who composes essays; a writer of short compositions.

essbar

Suitable to be eaten; edible. [From 15th c.]

Essbesteck

(chiefly, UK) Eating or serving utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.

Esse

A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.

Essen

A major industrial city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany.

Essen und Trinken

(uncountable) Food and drink.

Essen zum Mitnehmen

(chiefly, UK, Australia, South Africa, and, New Zealand) A restaurant that sells food to be eaten elsewhere.

Essensvorrat

(uncountable) Supplies for consumption or pleasure.

essentiell

Essential; crucial; extremely important.

Essenz

A significant feature of something.

essenziell

Necessary.

Esser

A person or animal who eats.

Essgeschirr

Dishes, plates, and similar tableware collectively, usually made of some ceramic material, used for serving food on and eating from.

Essig

(uncountable) A sour liquid formed by the fermentation of alcohol used as a condiment or preservative; a dilute solution of acetic acid.

Essiggurke

(chiefly, US, Canada, Australia) A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.

Esskastanie

The fruit of this tree.

Esslöffel

A spoon for eating soup, typically smaller than a tablespoon and larger than a dessert spoon, characterised by having a round bowl rather than the usual oval bowl of other types of spoon.

Esslokal

(informal) A restaurant or café; a place to purchase and eat food.

Este

(countable, rare) Any person from Estonia or someone descended from such people.

Ester

(organic compound) A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an acid, with elimination of water, which contains the functional group carbon-oxygen double bond (i.e., carbonyl) joined via carbon to another oxygen atom.

Estin

(countable, rare) Any person from Estonia or someone descended from such people.

Estland

A country in northeastern Europe, on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Official name: Republic of Estonia.

estnisch

Of, from, or pertaining to the country of Estonia, its people or their language.

Estompe

(drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.

Estragon

A perennial herb, the wormwood species Artemisia dracunculus, from Europe and parts of Asia.

Estrich

The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

Estrogene

(steroid hormone) Any of a group of steroids that are secreted by the ovaries and function as female sex hormones.

Eta

The seventh letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, the eighth in Old Greek.

etablieren

To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.

etabliert

Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.

Etage

A floor or level of a building or ship.

Etappe

A stage of a journey, race etc.

Etappenziel

(idiomatic) An important event in a person's life or career, in the history of a nation, in the life of some project, etc.

Etat

The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.

Etatismus

(mostly, libertarianism, and, anarchism) The belief that the state is a legitimate societal organization. [1912]

etc.

And so on: used to note that the rest of a list or piece of information has been left out on the assumption that it is similar or already known.

etepetete

(psychology, also vulgar informal) Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy (usually in an egosyntonic way), supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

Eternit

An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.

Eth

A letter (capital Ð, small ð) introduced into Old English to represent its dental fricative, then not distinguished from the letter thorn, no longer used in English but still in modern use in Icelandic, the IPA and other phonetic alphabets to represent the voiced dental fricative "th" sound as in the English word then. The letter is also used in Faroese, but is generally silent in that language.

Ethanol

(organic compound) A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH3-CH2-OH.

Ethik

study of principles governing right and wrong conduct

Ethin

(organic compound, official IUPAC name) The organic compound acetylene. The simplest alkyne, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula HC≡CH or C2H2.

ethnisch

Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.

ethnische Gruppe

A group of people who identify with one another, especially on the basis of ancestral, national, linguistic, cultural, historical or religious grounds.

ethnische Zugehörigkeit

The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences.

Ethnizität

The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences.

Ethnologie

(anthropology) The branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes different human cultures and the relationships between them.

Ethologie

(zoology) The scientific study of animalian behavior, especially that of nonhuman animals.

ethologisch

Of or pertaining to ethology.

Etikett

An adhesive label or decal.

Etikette

(uncountable) Appropriate social behavior.

etikettieren

(transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).

Etikettierung

A set of labels applied to the various objects in a system, to packaged goods, and so on; the act or process of applying them.

etliche

A nonzero, unspecified quantity or number of (an unbounded set of countable things).

Etuikleid

(fashion) A tight-fitting dress.

etwa

Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence in quality, manner, degree, quantity, or time; almost. [from before 1150]

etwaig

Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.

etwas

To a small extent or degree.

etwas anschreiben

(countable) A record of money owed.

etwas aus der Nase ziehen

(transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).

etwas aushecken

(transitive) To plan; to contrive; to manuever.

etwas austauschen

(transitive) To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing.

etwas dagegensetzen

To adjust or adapt to a change, often a harm or deprivation.

etwas daran hindern (zu geschehen)

(transitive) To stop (an outcome); to keep from (doing something). [from 16th c.]

etwas entgegenhalten

(transitive) To produce something equal to.

etwas hungrig

(colloquial, British) mildly hungry

etwas in einen Topf werfen

To put (something) into a pot.

etwas Leckeres

(informal) A small amount of something good to eat.

etwas verstellen

(transitive) To modify.

etwas versüßen

(intransitive) To bring comfort or relief.

etwas vorgeben

To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.

etwas vorschützen

To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.

etwas vorspiegeln

To employ a pretext, which involves using a false or contrived purpose for soliciting the gain of something else.

etwas zu weit gehend

Egregiously; beyond compare.

Etymologie

(countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

Etymon

(linguistics, philology) The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.

EU-Abgeordnete

(EU politics) Initialism of Member of the European Parliament.

EU-Abgeordneter

(EU politics) Initialism of Member of the European Parliament.

EU-Parlamentarier

(EU politics) Initialism of Member of the European Parliament.

EU-Parlamentarierin

(EU politics) Initialism of Member of the European Parliament.

euch

(object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]

Eudämon

A good or benevolent spirit.

euer

Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).

Eugen

A en given name.

Eugenetik

(sociology, biology) A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.

Eugenie

A en given name. Variant: Eugenie.

Eugenik

(sociology, biology) A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.

Eugenius

A en given name.

Eukalyptus

Any of many trees, of genus Eucalyptus, native mainly to Australia.

Euklid

Euclid of Alexandria, a Greek mathematician, fl. 300 BC.

euklidischer Raum

(mathematics) A Euclidian space of unspecified dimension.

Eule

Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes, families Strigidae and Tytonidae, that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing. [from 8th c.]

Eulenschwarm

(collective) A gathering of birds, especially rooks or owls. [from 15th c.]

Eulenspiegel

(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).