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Frequently Confused Words from 1001 Pitfalls in German
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Frequently Confused Words from 1001 Pitfalls in German.

Apr 05, 2015

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Page 1: Frequently Confused Words from 1001 Pitfalls in German.

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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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)