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To some English – and German – speakers, Reich in English strongly connotes Nazism and is sometimes used to suggest fascism or authoritarianism, e.g. "Herr Reichsminister" used as a title for a disliked politician. Ja – yes; Jawohl – a German term that connotes an emphatic yes – "Yes, indeed!" in English.
redner - speaker; Reduktion - reduction; reduzieren - to reduce; Referendariat - legal clerkship; Reformation - Reformation; Regale - shelf; regelrechter - more regular; Regenbogen - rainbow; Regenbogenfarben - rainbow colours; regennassen - wet with rain; Regie - direction/production; regieren - govern; Regiment - regiment; Regiments ...
Pages in category "German words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 395 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
hock (British only) – A German white wine. The word is derived from Hochheim am Main, a town in Germany. nix – nothing; its use as a verb (reject, cancel) [1] is not used in German; synonymous with eighty-six. From the German word 'nichts' (nothing). Mox nix! – From the German phrase, Es macht nichts!
This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u." This article covers standard ...
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A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
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