Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Page 9
And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things—I can't remember half of them—and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds!
Und es apportiert Dinge, wenn man sie wirft, und es setzt sich auf und bettelt um sein Futter, und allerlei andere Dinge – ich kann mich nicht mal an die Hälfte davon erinnern – und es gehört einem Bauern, weißt du, und er sagt, es sei so nützlich, dass es hundert Pfund wert ist!
He says it kills all the rats and—oh dear!" cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, "I'm afraid I've offended it again!"
Er sagt, es tötet alle Ratten und – oh je!" rief Alice in einem traurigen Ton, "Ich fürchte, ich habe es schon wieder beleidigt!"
For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.
Denn die Maus schwamm so schnell sie konnte von ihr weg und verursachte dabei einen ziemlichen Aufruhr im Teich.
So she called softly after it, "Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't like them!"
Also rief sie ihr leise nach: "Liebes Mäuschen! Komm doch bitte zurück, und wir werden weder über Katzen noch über Hunde sprechen, wenn du sie nicht magst!"
When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, "Let us get to the shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs."
Als die Maus das hörte, drehte sie sich um und schwamm langsam zu ihr zurück: ihr Gesicht war ganz blass (vor Erregung, dachte Alice), und sie sagte mit leiser, zitternder Stimme: "Lasst uns ans Ufer gelangen, und dann werde ich euch meine Geschichte erzählen, und ihr werdet verstehen, warum ich Katzen und Hunde hasse."
It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures.
Es war höchste Zeit aufzubrechen, denn der Teich füllte sich mit den Vögeln und Tieren, die hineingefallen waren: da waren eine Ente und ein Dodo, ein Lori und ein junger Adler sowie mehrere andere merkwürdige Geschöpfe.
Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore.
Alice ging voran, und die ganze Gruppe schwamm ans Ufer.
Vocabulary
- apportiert
- Fetches and retrieves objects, as a trained dog does
- Dinge
- Things; plural of Ding
- wenn
- Conjunction meaning 'when' or 'if'
- man
- Indefinite pronoun meaning 'one' or 'you'
- wirft
- Throws; third person singular of werfen
- setzt
- Sets, places, or sits down; form of setzen
- sich
- Reflexive pronoun meaning 'oneself' or 'himself/herself'
- auf
- Preposition meaning 'on', 'onto', or 'up'
- bettelt
- Begs, pleads for something persistently
- um
- Preposition meaning 'for', 'around', or 'at'
- sein
- His; or infinitive 'to be'
- Futter
- Animal feed or food for pets
- allerlei
- All sorts of; a variety of different things
- andere
- Other; different; additional things or people
- kann
- Can; am able to; form of können
- mal
- Particle meaning 'once' or softening a request
- Hälfte
- Half; one of two equal portions
- davon
- Of it, of them; refers back to something mentioned
- erinnern
- To remember or recall something from memory
- gehört
- Belongs to; past participle of gehören
- Bauern
- Farmer; peasant; agricultural worker
- weißt
- Know; second person singular of wissen
- sei
- Subjunctive form of sein, meaning 'be' or 'is'
- nützlich
- Useful, practical, serving a helpful purpose
- dass
- Conjunction meaning 'that', introducing subordinate clauses
- hundert
- The number one hundred
- Pfund
- Pound; unit of currency or weight
- wert
- Worth; having a certain value or merit
- tötet
- Kills; third person singular of töten
- alle
- All; every; the entirety of a group
- Ratten
- Rats; plural of Ratte, small rodents
- je
- Exclamation of dismay; oh dear; ever
- rief
- Called out, cried; past tense of rufen
- traurigen
- Sad; sorrowful; inflected form of traurig
- Ton
- Tone; sound; pitch of voice or music
- fürchte
- Fear; first person singular of fürchten
- schon
- Already; by now; used for emphasis
- wieder
- Again; once more; anew
- beleidigt
- Offended, insulted; past participle of beleidigen
- Denn
- Because; for; conjunction giving a reason
- Maus
- Mouse; small rodent
- schwamm
- Swam; past tense of schwimmen
- schnell
- Fast, quickly; at high speed
- konnte
- Could; past tense of können
- weg
- Away; off; gone from a place
- verursachte
- Caused; brought about; past tense of verursachen
- dabei
- In doing so; at the same time; thereby
- ziemlichen
- Considerable; quite a large; inflected form of ziemlich
- Aufruhr
- Uproar, turmoil, commotion, disorder
- Teich
- Pond; small body of still water
- Also
- So, thus, therefore; transitional word in German
- leise
- Quietly, softly; in a low voice
- nach
- Preposition meaning 'after', 'to', or 'according to'
- Liebes
- Dear, beloved; affectionate form of address
- Mäuschen
- Little mouse; diminutive and affectionate form of Maus
- Komm
- Come; imperative form of kommen
- doch
- Particle adding emphasis, contrast, or encouragement
- bitte
- Please; polite word for making requests
- zurück
- Back; returning to a previous place
- werden
- Will; future auxiliary verb; to become
- weder
- Neither; used in weder…noch constructions
- über
- Preposition meaning 'about', 'over', or 'across'
- Katzen
- Cats; plural of Katze
- noch
- Nor; still; yet; also used in comparisons
- Hunde
- Dogs; plural of Hund
- sprechen
- To speak, to talk about something
- magst
- Like; second person singular of mögen
- Als
- When; as; conjunction for past time clauses
- hörte
- Heard; past tense of hören
- drehte
- Turned; past tense of drehen
- langsam
- Slowly; at a low speed; gradual
- Gesicht
- Face; the front part of a head
- ganz
- Completely, entirely, quite, whole
- blass
- Pale; light in color, lacking color
- vor
- Preposition meaning 'before', 'in front of', 'from'
- Erregung
- Excitement, agitation, emotional arousal
- dachte
- Thought; past tense of denken
- sagte
- Said; past tense of sagen
- leiser
- Quieter; comparative form of leise
- zitternder
- Trembling, shaking; inflected form of zitternd
- Stimme
- Voice; the sound produced when speaking or singing
- Lasst
- Let; allow; imperative plural form of lassen
- ans
- Contraction of an das, meaning 'to the'
- Ufer
- Shore, bank, riverbank; edge of a body of water
- gelangen
- To reach, arrive at, get to a place
- dann
- Then; after that; at that point in time
- euch
- You; second person plural accusative or dative pronoun
- Geschichte
- Story; history; narrative account of events
- erzählen
- To tell, narrate, recount a story
- werdet
- Will; second person plural future auxiliary of werden
- verstehen
- To understand, comprehend something
- warum
- Why; asking for the reason or cause
- hasse
- Hate; first person singular of hassen
- höchste
- Highest; superlative inflected form of hoch
- Zeit
- Time; a period or moment
- aufzubrechen
- To set off, depart, break camp and leave
- denn
- Because, for; conjunction giving a reason
- füllte
- Filled; past tense of füllen
- Vögeln
- Birds; dative plural of Vogel
- Tieren
- Animals; dative plural of Tier
- hineingefallen
- Fallen in; past participle of hineinfallen
- da
- There; here; since; because; indicating location or cause
- Ente
- Duck; a common water bird
- Dodo
- Dodo; an extinct flightless bird
- Lori
- Lory; a type of colorful parrot
- junger
- Young; inflected form of jung for masculine nouns
- Adler
- Eagle; a large bird of prey
- sowie
- As well as; in addition to
- mehrere
- Several; more than two but not many
- merkwürdige
- Strange, peculiar, remarkable; inflected form of merkwürdig
- Geschöpfe
- Creatures; beings; plural of Geschöpf
- ging
- Went; past tense of gehen
- voran
- Ahead, in front, leading the way
- ganze
- Whole, entire; inflected form of ganz
- Gruppe
- Group; a number of people or things together
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