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Description: germanenglishwords.com: A list of German words used in the English language (deutsche Woerter, die im Englischen verwendet werden).
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Welcome to GermanEnglishWords.com . This is a dictionary of some German words used in the English language ( Germanisms ), each with a literal or German meaning, English definition and actual sample sentence(s) from literature and the Internet.
Some German words like kindergarten are so Anglicized that they are now considered English words borrowed from German. Such words are called loan words or loanwords . Loan word itself is a literal translation of the German Lehnwort , making it a loan translation , loan translation itself being a loan translation of Lehnübersetzung . Loan translations are also called calques .
Other German words like Waldsterben are still considered foreign words used in English and often describe a particular technical term. Foreign words are usually italicized.
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SAHARA (FAQ deutsche Sprache)