Gott-names - In the era of Pietism (17th/18th century) it was popular to create German male names withGott(God) plus a pious adjective.Gotthard("God" and "hard"),Gotthold(God and "fair/sweet"),Gottlieb(God and "love"),Gottschalk("God's servant"),Gottwald(God and "rule"),Gottwin(...
In the German language, when are used expressions whose first element isSpinat-in the context of homosexual men and male homosexuality, is metaphorically speaking of the feces, since Spinat translated into the English language is spinach, the vegetable, and all these expressions are referring to an...
Before discussing verb forms in the German language, you'll have to know a bit about 'subjects'.This lesson only discusses subject pronouns; pronouns as a whole will be discussed in detail in later lessons. The subject of a sentence is usually a noun that names a person or thing that ...
Meanings of German band names 2raumwohnung= 2 room apartment Böhse Onkelz= this is the correct but idiosyncratic spelling of the name of the German band (the correct plural would be "Onkel" without the z or an s, and "böse" for the correct German word for 'evil') "evil uncles,...
The occupation names of makers of earthenware derive mainly from the (regionally different) names of the products: terms for potter derived from Hafen(Swiss, Austrian and South German for pot): Hafner, Haffner, Häfner, Häffner, Häfele, Hefner, Heffner, Hefele; terms for potter derived...
•MostGermannounsdenotingmalepeople andanimalsareinfactmasculine,and thosedenotingfemalesaremostlyfeminine. •BUTthereareexceptions-dasMädchen, dasFräulein,dasWeib! 1.9Typischdeutsch(2)! •AndunlikeEnglishnouns,namesofinanimate objectsmaybemasculine,feminineorneuter ...
A lot of sports equipment names in German are very direct and descriptive. For example,Handschuheliterally translates to “hand shoes” (gloves). After all, German is known for having unique compound words (sometimes with quirky meanings). ...
German names almost always do mean something, and this helps to deceive the student. I translated a passage one day, which said that "the infuriated tigress broke loose and utterly ate up the unfortunate fir forest" (Tannenwald). When I was girding up my loins to doubt this, I found ...
We excluded signs based on the manual alphabet (e.g., WC); compounds that may be loan translations from spoken German (e.g., LUNCH, noon + meal); number signs; proper names of cities, German federal states, and countries; as well as most classifiers (though consider that our set ...
The final set of items consisted of 870 items that were included in the age-of-acquisition rating and familiarity rating studies. Rating Study 2: age of acquisition Participants, materials, and procedure A group of 60 participants (35 female, 25 male) participants took part in the age-of-...