frequently confused words from 1001 pitfalls in german
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Frequently Confused Words
from 1001 Pitfalls in German
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Background
• As most people who work with language know, words can wear masks and contain subterfuges.
• Since English and German are cousins with varying degrees of similarity and dissimilarity, the masks and subterfuges are sometimes more complex.
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Suspect Round Up• The following words may cause
you problems because of slight differences in spelling and/or pronunciation:
• das Ostern• die Auster• die Aster• das Australien• das Oesterreich
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You say Easter, I say Aster
• EASTER• das Ostern
• ASTER• die Aster
das Ostern die Aster
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The World is Your Oyster
• OYSTER• die Auster
• AUSTRALIA• das Australien
• AUSTRIA• das Oesterreich
Dir liegt die Welt zu Füßen!
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Dir liegt die Welt zu Füßen!
• The world is your oyster is not idiomatic in German.
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I “ast” you once…die Aster versus der Ast
Die Aster ist eine Blume.DerAst heisst “branch” auf englisch.
p.s. “die Branche” is strictly business.
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ei ie O!das Leid vs. das Lied
das LeidDas Lied
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Du sagst “Gelächter” und ich sag’ “Gelichter!”
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Laughter or Rabble?
Das Gelächter
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das Gelichter
Negative Connotations
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Already beautiful?
Eklig! Das ist schon gekaut!Toll! Sie ist ganz schön!
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Sehen zehn Zehen
• Sehen Sie die zehn Zehen?
Sehen= to see der Zeh auch: die Zehe - Pl. die Zehen
Eigentlich sehe ich mehr als zehn!!
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T for 2
• der Nachttisch der Nachtisch
die Nacht + der Tisch Nach dem Abendessen, essen wir
etwas Susses am Tisch.
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www wer wir wo• Wer bist du? Wir = ich + du
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Wo? (eine Frage der Position)
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Dreck Druck
der Druck
der Dreck
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Dann Denn• dann=then• Bis dann!• Bis bald!
• denn=than as comparative conjunction
Er ist als Filmschauspieler bekannter denn als Gouverneur.
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denn as “for/because”
• Zieh dich warm an, denn es ist kalt! Jesus aber sprach:
Vater, vergib ihnen; denn sie wissen nicht, was sie tun!Lukas 23,34
Most famous “for” phrase?
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Was ist das Leben ohne lieben?
leben = to livelieben= to love
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Jetzt seid ihr dran!
• It’s your turn to design powerpoints to instruct your classmates and the German 2 students about confusing words.
• You must provide clear images and distinctions. You will earn a B for covering each term; for an A, you must include extra false cognates associated with your definitions (like die Branche is only used in business, not for trees); idioms (the world is your oyster not German); or confusions not handed to you (wo = where)