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Developments and discoveries in German-speaking nations in science, scholarship, and classical music have led to German words for new concepts, which have been adopted into English: for example the words doppelgänger and angst in psychology. Discussion of German history and culture requires some German words.
For example, in the film 1941 the Slim Pickens character calls a German officer "Mr Hynee Kraut!". Heinie is also a colloquial term for buttocks, in use since the 1920s. [12] In German, Heini is a common colloquial term with a slightly pejorative meaning similar to "moron" or "idiot", but has a different origin.
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 ...
At its most disappointing, banter may be branded on dating app bios but never experienced on a real date. At its most thrilling, banter mimics the buildup and climax of good sex. At its most ...
This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words
duldet nicht - does not tolerate; Dummheit - stupidity; Dunkel - darker; Dunkelziffer - Dark figure; Dunkle Materie - Dark matter; durchdreht - freaked out; durchdringen - penetrate; durcheinander - confused; durchführen - to carry out; durchgeführt - carried out/accomplished; durchknattern - rattle through; durchkämpfen - fight through ...
Can mean either the road structure or a ship's command center, also the supporting framework that existed below the bird-like monoplane wings of the earlier examples of the Etrich Taube before World War I. Brückenleger – bridgelayer. Brummbär – "grumbling bear"; a children's word for "bear" in German. It was the nickname for a heavy ...
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.