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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.
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The term Kartoffel (German for potato) is a derogatory slang term for Germans without migratory roots. In the 19th century it was used to describe areas of Germany in a need of eating potatoes like "potatosaxons". Gastarbeiter used the term "potatoeater" for Germans, while "spaghettieater" meant migrant Italians and "kebabeaters" Turks. Today ...
For many travelers, Germany is an incredibly beautiful country, with an incredibly difficult language. Regardless, German people are super friendly and willing to help teach common German phrases ...
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!
(Perhaps in English this borrowing is regionally restricted, e.g. to areas with significant German-American roots). Examples: 'give it to me once' or 'sit down once', with parallels to German phrases such as 'Pass mal auf' (i.e. watch out (once)!) where older English would not usually include or translate the 'once' at all.
Unlike English, the German language distinguishes adverbs which qualify verbs or adjectives from those which qualify whole sentences. For the latter case, many German adjectives form a special adverb form ending in -erweise, e.g. glücklicherweise "luckily", traurigerweise "sadly" (from Weise = way, manner).
In English-speaking countries, the common verbal response to another person's sneeze is "(God) bless you", or less commonly in the United States and Canada, "Gesundheit", the German word for health (and the response to sneezing in German-speaking countries). There are several proposed origins of the phrase "bless-you" for use in the context of ...
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