Translation

1. relation, ratio neuter, strong

   angemessenes Verhältnis

   appropriate ratio

   Es leben etwa 300 000 Bürger des ehemaligen Jugoslawien in der Schweiz, kaum ein Staat hat damals im Verhältnis zu seiner Einwohnerzahl so viele Flüchtlinge aufgenommen.

   There are about 300,000 citizens of former Yugoslavia living in Switzerland — hardly any other country took in as many refugees in proportion to its population at that time.

2. relationship neuter, strong

   ein Verhältnis aufbauen

   to build a relationship

   1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 13–14

   We also know from the individual’s secret history, which analysis uncovers, that the relationship with this father was perhaps ambivalent from the very beginning, or at least soon became so — that is, it encompassed two opposing emotional impulses: not just an affectionate, submissive one, but also a hostile, defiant one.

3. affair (adulterous relationship) neuter, strong
4. circumstances, means (material and/or social conditions in which one lives) in-plural, neuter, strong

Declension

Translation

1. affair source:freedict-eng-deu-dictd
2. affair source:wikdict-en-de-stardict
3. affair; love affair source:dictcc-tuchemnitz-de-en