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English words in the German language?



 
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English words in the German language? #1 (permalink) Fri Jan 09, 2009 18:40 pm   English words in the German language?
 

So how many English words have become part of your daily communication? As for the German language, I think there are at least several hundred words and phrases that are commonly known and/or used by the average German. Interestingly enough, there doesn't seem to be a list of these words available on the Internet so it's probably about time to start creating it. You can do the same for your native language. Here are my first entries:
access
action
airbag
always
body
boots
boss
boy
bridge
browser
business
car
car sharing
chip
cold
colour
computer
couch
date
desktop
door
down
DVD
easy
email
enter
entertainment
excel
eye
fast
father
finger
first class
flipchart
floor
food
free call
friend
fun
girl
hand
happiness
happy
happy hour
hard
headset
helicopter
high
hit
hot
Internet
keyboard
kids
know how
mailbox
manager
marker
marketing
message
monitor
mother
mouse
mouse pad
movie
MP3 player
nose
number
OK
person
pipeline
price
problem
provider
rate
ready
red
round
soft
stress
tea
time
tip
today
together
tomorrow
top
warm
wear
whiskey
win
window
winner
word
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English words in the German language? #2 (permalink) Fri Jan 09, 2009 21:22 pm   English words in the German language?
 

Hello Torsten,

I do not see Kindergarten above. It is a German word used in English. So, palpably, it is used in German. ;)
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English words in the German language? #3 (permalink) Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:04 am   English words in the German language?
 

TD

There's a group of Americans with the surname "Klein" (or misspelled (Cline).

Klein = Little

right?

Mueller = Miller = one who mills
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English words in the German language? #4 (permalink) Mon Jan 12, 2009 14:24 pm   English words in the German language?
 

Happytofita wrote:
Hello Torsten,

I do not see Kindergarten above. It is a German word used in English. So, palpably, it is used in German. ;)


Hi Mouhcine,

Of course you are right -- Kindergarten is a German word used in English so it's also an English word used in German. However, I'm more concentrating on English words that have recently been introduced into German. To a German learner of English it will be confusing if you tell them that Kindergarten is a German word that is used in English since it's actually the other way round.

After all, there a number of such words like Oktoberfest, Bratwurst, Angst, Schadenfreude and Zeitgeist.

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English words in the German language? #5 (permalink) Mon Jan 12, 2009 14:25 pm   English words in the German language?
 

Prezbucky wrote:
TD

There's a group of Americans with the surname "Klein" (or misspelled (Cline).

Klein = Little

right?

Mueller = Miller = one who mills


Hi Tom,

Yes klein means little so that might be one of the few German words that are used in English. As you know, there are far more English words used in German than vice versa so you can come up with more German words in English I'd be very grateful because I could use that list in my training programs.

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