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  2. Über - Wikipedia

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    Über (German pronunciation: ⓘ, sometimes written uber / ˈ uː b ər / [1] in English-language publications) is a German language word meaning "over", "above" or "across". It is an etymological twin with German ober, and is a cognate (through Proto-Germanic) with English over, Dutch over, Swedish över and Icelandic yfir, among other Germanic languages; it is a distant cognate to the ...

  3. Gemütlichkeit - Wikipedia

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    English has no direct translation for gemütlich or Gemütlichkeit. Cosy captures an element of it but crucially lacks those of friendliness and belonging. [citation needed] Another possible translation could be comfort. [citation needed] The Swedish-language equivalent is gemytlig, deriving directly from the German word and sharing its meaning ...

  4. List of terms used for Germans - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension.

  6. Lagom - Wikipedia

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    While some synonyms are somewhat similar in meaning (e.g. ' suitable ' and ' reasonable ', ' fitting ' and ' in balance '), many present in Swedish do not exist in Norwegian and vice versa. The Norwegian words passelig and the more common passe are very similar, translating roughly as ' fitting, adequate, suitable ' in English.

  7. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    When used as a dictionary to translate single words, Google Translate is highly inaccurate because it must guess between polysemic words. Among the top 100 words in the English language, which make up more than 50% of all written English, the average word has more than 15 senses , [ 134 ] which makes the odds against a correct translation about ...

  8. Uff da - Wikipedia

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    Da is derived from Old Norse þá meaning 'then' in this context (similar to e.g. the response "ok, then"); both da and English then (from Old English þanne, þænne, þonne) are derived from Proto-Germanic * þan ('at that (time), then'). [6] The Swedish exclamations ojdå and usch då are similar in meaning, with Swedish då corresponding to ...

  9. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...

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