Herr

1. man, gentleman (polite term)
2. sir (title of respect)
3. Mr., mister, sir
4. gentleman
5. master, lord (generally denotes that somebody has control over something, either in a generic or in a regal sense)
6. the lowest title of German nobility
7. Lord, God

von

1. from
2. of, belonging to (often replacing genitive; see usage note below)
3. by (with passive voice)
4. about, of (a topic)
5. on, with (a resource)

wir

we

nehmen

1. to take (something into one's possession or on one's body)
2. to take from
3. to hold (in one's hands), to grasp
4. to take, to consider (a statement, a situation, an idea, etc, in a certain way, for example seriously, badly, personally)
5. to capture, to arrest
6. to ingest (e.g. a pill)
7. to move into, to sit at (one's assigned position)
8. to use (time, effort, etc. for a specific purpose)
9. To begin or cause the action implied by a noun to take place, possibly making the sentence more passive or indirect.
10. to cause oneself to be (in some state); to become; to take oneself (to some state)
11. to seize, to capture
12. to receive, to accept
13. to foul

Ihre

1. inflection of Ihr:
2. inflection of Ihr:
3. inflection of Ihr:

Erklärung

1. explanation
2. declaration, statement

zur

Contraction of zu der (“to the (feminine)”).

Kenntnis

1. knowledge
2. skills
3. awareness
4. science (knowledge gained through study or practice)