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Use of German words in English & American language

harman/kardon

harman/kardon

From the Fatherland
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I have just seen the word "Apfelwein" in the "What are you drinking now?" thread. That gave me the idea to ask what other German words you may use from time to time.

Other words I know ad hoc:

Kindergarten
Blitzkrieg
Oktoberfest
Christkindl (pmsummer uses it :yes: )
Sauerkraut (of course, of course...)
Krauts
Gemütlichkeit (?)
Heimat (?)
Frankfurter (Würstchen)
Kaputt (I heard that for the first time in a Columbo episode)

...some more?

:)
 
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I see this sign everyday ,as well as on all my paychecks---
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Danke Schoen ! A lot of people here DO know that means "Thank You", but it STILL often flummoxes the cashier kids in the drive-thru at burger joints..I DID have one gal once who grinned real big & spouted off a WHOLE big bunch of German..She was the President of the foreign-language club at the local high school...
 
Dachshund
Doppelganger
A great deal of Yiddish has filtered into 'American' English, and the origin is German:
Verkakte, Meshuggah, Kotch (meaning vommit), Gevalt...
 
some yiddisch words that are actually german have made it into english, too, after that article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Yiddish_origin

even more then I thought after all...
for example:

yiddisch | Deutsch

dreck | Dreck
kibitz | Kiebitz
handel | Handel
heimish | heimisch
kvetch | quetschen
mazel | Massel
mensh | Mensch
meshugga | Meschugge
nebbish | nebbich
narrisch | närrisch
milchig | milchig
schlemazl | Schlamassel
schlong | Schlange
schmutz | Schmutz
schvartze | Schwarze
shpiel | Spiel


and lots more...

ah, same Idea a minute earlier...


don't know why, had to think of "Happy Harry from Hannover" (a AFN-Radio-DJ always saying this after his show, pronouncing Hannover as hangover)
 
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Uber + (insert word here).
(insert word here) + meister.


I use the idiomatic expression taught by my junior high school German teacher, "Soll ganz toll sein!" I recall it meaning something like, "Simply terrific!".
 
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