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There are a number of '''German terms for which there are no useful English equivalents'''. Because of their usefulness, these terms – called [[loan words]] – have entered the English lexicon. |
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== October 2008 == |
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This list (with nearest synonyms) includes: |
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*[[Ablaut]] (the alternation of sounds within a word that indicates grammatical information) |
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*[[Achtung]] (attention) |
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*[[Aha-Erlebnis]]/[[Aha-Effekt]] (autodidactic discovery) |
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*[[Angst]] (a feeling of anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity) |
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*[[Ansatz]] (one of the most used German loan words in the English-speaking world of science) |
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*[[Bildungsroman]] (a novel regarding personal character growth) |
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*[[Blitz]] ("lightning", came to be known as a metaphor for "extremely fast"/a explicably fast maneuver or movement.) |
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*[[Blitzkrieg]] (lightning war) |
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*[[Bratwurst]] (sausage) |
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*[[Doppelgänger]] (a ghostly counterpart of a living person) |
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*[[Ersatz]] (being a usually artificial and inferior substitute or imitation) |
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*[[Festschrift]] (a volume of writings by different authors presented as a tribute or memorial especially to a scholar) |
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*[[Fraktur]] (a typeface style resembling blackletter) |
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*[[Gastarbeiter]] (guest worker) |
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*[[Thought experiment|Gedankenexperiment]] (a thought experiment) |
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*[[Gegenschein]] (a light phenomenon in a dark night sky) |
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*[[Gemütlich]] (comfortable), [[Gemütlichkeit]] (cordiality, friendliness) |
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*[[Gesamtkunstwerk]] (comprehensive work) |
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*[[Gestalt]] (epiphany, a structure, configuration, or pattern of physical, biological, or psychological phenomena so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with properties not derivable by summation of its parts) |
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*[[Glockenspiel]] |
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*[[Götterdämmerung]] (literally - twilight of the gods; a collapse (as of a society or regime) marked by catastrophic violence and disorder) |
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*[[Hinterland]] (countryside far away from urban areas) |
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*[[Kindergarten]] (nursery, lit. ''Garden of children'' or ''Garden for children'') |
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*[[Lebensraum]] (space required for life, growth, or activity, compare to ''Elbow room'', ''Living-room') |
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*[[Leitmotiv]] (a dominant recurring theme) |
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*[[Meister]] ((master/teacher, Ex. ''Mr.''; compare to ''[[Maestro]]'') -- See also the words from [[Todesfuge]]: "Der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland" by [[Paul Celan]]) |
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*[[Mittelschmerz]] (middle pain, used to refer to ovulation pain) |
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*[[Ostalgie]] (nostalgia for the former [[Eastern Bloc]]; Ost means East in german) |
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*[[Pretzel]] Pastry of German origin, the name cames from the German word "Bretzel". |
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*[[Poltergeist]] (a noisy usually mischievous ghost held to be responsible for unexplained noises) |
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*[[Putsch]] (revolution; a secretly plotted and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government) |
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*[[Realpolitik]] (politics based on practical and material factors rather than on theoretical or ethical objectives) |
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*[[Rucksack]] (backpack) |
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*[[Sauerkraut]] (sour cabbage) |
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*[[Schadenfreude]] (enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others) |
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*[[Sturm und Drang]] (lit. "storm and stress"; turmoil) |
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*[[Über]] (ultra, "very"), [[Übermensch]] (superman/superhuman) |
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*[[Überfremdung]] claim that some aspect of a culture has been '''too''' heavily penetrated by foreign influence |
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*[[Umlaut]] (the diacritic over the vowels "ä", "ö" and "ü", or more generally the phenomenon of vowel shifts such as the one in German that is represented by this diacritic) |
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*[[Urheimat]] (original homeland of the speakers of a proto-language) |
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*[[Ursprache]] (proto-language) |
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*[[Waldsterben]] (forest dieback) |
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*[[Wanderlust]] (strong longing for or impulse toward wandering) |
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*[[Weltanschauung]] (a comprehensive conception or apprehension of the world especially from a specific standpoint) |
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*[[Weltschmerz]] (lit. "world-pain"; mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state) |
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*[[Wirtschaftswunder]] (designates the upturn experienced in the West German and Austrian economies after the Second World War) |
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*[[Wunderkind]] (a child prodigy) |
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*[[Zeitgeist]] ("spirit of the times"; actually a German calque originating from a Shakespeare translation) |
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==See also== |
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*[[List of German expressions in English]] |
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*[[German placename etymology]] |
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*[[German name]] |
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*[[List of Spanish words of Germanic origin]] |
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*[[List of Portuguese words of Germanic origin]] |
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*[[List of English words of Yiddish origin]] |
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[[Category:German loanwords|*]] |
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[[de:Liste deutscher Wörter im Englischen]] |
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[[es:Germanismo]] |
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[[gl:Xermanismo]] |
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[[hr:Germanizam]] |
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[[nl:Germanisme]] |
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[[no:Germanisme]] |
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[[pl:Germanizm]] |
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[[ru:Германизм]] |
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[[sh:Germanizam]] |
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Revision as of 01:26, 11 October 2008
October 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Tickle Me Elmo has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Soliloquial (talk) 01:26, 11 October 2008 (UTC)