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Can you guess the correct German translation for each of these English words?
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First submittedNovember 17, 2022
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Sheep
Library
Railway
Sea
Mountain
King
City
Country
Cup
Bridge
Flower
Month
Journey
Thursday
Sky
Television
Dark
Red
Leg
Street
Bein
Berg
Bibliothek
Blume
Brücke
Donnerstag
Dunkel
Eisenbahn
Fernseher
Himmel
König
Land
Meer
Monat
Reise
Rot
Schaf
Stadt
Straße
Tasse
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42 Comments
cpgatbyu
+8
Level 88
Nov 17, 2022
When I was in Germany and said that I was from a Stadt of 10,000 people, I was told that that's more like a Dorf.
QRU
+24
Level 77
Nov 23, 2022
Dorf means village, the border between the two can be fuzzy.
TomatosRaafatos
+8
Level 76
Feb 17, 2023
I was also gonna say that Stadt is more often used for cities than towns. However I am not an experienced German speaker and I am not even sure where's the dividing line between town and city in English.
brandybuck96
+4
Level 82
May 15, 2023
Idk what's the case in Germany, but in the UK, the dividing line tends to be more down to facilities than population. My town is a town because historically it had a market, and because it now has numerous shops and useful facilities, but another settlement with 6,000 people but none of those things might be called more of a village.
Lurik
+1
Level 2
Dec 17, 2023
Whether it is a city or a village has to do with Town privileges. I live in a city with 4000 inhabitants. The smallest city in Germany has just around 300 inhabitants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_privileges

MPK93
+8
Level 49
Feb 18, 2023
Probably depends on who you're speaking with :) Someone from Berlin or Hamburg would probably say "Dorf", for people living in rural areas (like me) a place with 10k people is definitely a "Stadt" already.... I guess the correct term would be "Kleinstadt"
wormgod209
+1
Level 34
May 19, 2023
i was going to say the same thing xD stadt is a city for sure more like sf. dorf would b a village tho
TomatosRaafatos
+2
Level 76
Feb 17, 2023
Nice quiz :) Good mix of words. Not too difficult. Fernsehen is the verb though (watching TV). It should be Fernseher.
Berney
+2
Level 84
Feb 17, 2023
Thanks, that's what it was meant to be, now changed.
MarcellDAvis
+3
Level 80
Jun 10, 2023
Well it depends. Fernseher is the device. Fernsehen as a verb means watching TV, but it can also be a noun that means TV as in "I saw it on TV" = "Ich sah es im Fernsehen".
MPK93
+13
Level 49
Feb 18, 2023
Yay, I got 100% on my first try! So proud of myself!

I'm German BTW :D

Dynniks
+3
Level 68
Feb 23, 2023
100% first try - Canadian English speaker of Russian German Mennonite heritage.
Eryczequiz
+2
Level 30
Mar 28, 2023
19/20 polish
Neodymium
+2
Level 63
May 14, 2023
Nice feature! This entire series will get featured, I know it!
ItzIngenious
+1
Level 66
May 14, 2023
3/20, doesn’t know the first thing about German.
Neodymium
+6
Level 63
May 15, 2023
English is a germanic language so many answers are close to english.
david2013
+2
Level 87
Jun 10, 2023
20/20. English and some French. But watch enough World War II movies and documentaries and you pick up a word or zwei.
GameMasterOFQu1z
+1
Level 25
Jan 9, 2026
schön pun
MarcellDAvis
+16
Level 80
Jun 10, 2023
Some of the not-so-obvious ones can be derived through cognate words.

- Thursday = Thor's day; Thor is cognate with thunder = Donner --> Donnerstag

- Blume is cognate with bloom and I think also plume

- Berg is in iceberg = ice mountain

- Stadt is cognate with stead = place

- Fernseher = far seer, literally tele visor

- Bein is cognate with bone and still has bone as an archaic meaning.

- Reise is cognate with ride

Etymology is such fun :D

MCdoesgeography
+1
Level 74
Jun 10, 2023
Cool!
GameMasterOFQu1z
+1
Level 25
Jan 9, 2026
Fernseher sounds like furniture somehow

TV/television counts as furniture, so that's another key

KabouterPlop
+9
Level 71
Jun 10, 2023
Speaking Dutch really helped me here as so many words are very similar. But what confused me was that 'sea' in German is 'Meer'. But 'meer' means 'lake' in Dutch.

Then I had to google those words and found out that 'lake' in German is 'See', while 'zee' is the Dutch word for 'sea'.

Funny but confusing.

MarcellDAvis
+5
Level 80
Jun 12, 2023
To complete your confusion,

Der See = lake

Die See = the sea

Das Meer = also the sea

German is a very simple and straightforward language.

GameMasterOFQu1z
+2
Level 25
Jan 9, 2026
Gastfreundschaft
ChallengeMaster
+1
Level 27
Jun 15, 2023
100% first try!! So proud of myself
Koyamari
+1
Level 58
Aug 14, 2023
My score for guessing the words in German was 15/20.
SMFlex
+1
Level 54
Jan 30, 2024
I was solid for the first fourteen, and then things fell apart.
poisongift
+3
Level 66
Sep 23, 2023
"Stadt" doesn't really mean "town", or at least wouldn't usually be translated that way. Any settlement or municipality large enough to be called a "Stadt" by German speakers would almost certainly be called a "city" by English speakers. It's true that the cut-off point between "village", "town", "city", etc. is regionally dependent, maybe even somewhat subjective depending on what register of the language you're speaking in. But as a German speaker, that item threw me off in this game because when I saw the word "town" appear, I actually ignored "Stadt" at first and spent some time looking for "Dorf" or another synonym.
Carry
+2
Level 63
Oct 23, 2023
Kleinstadt would be a better translation but Stadt is not wrong. Either way using city instead of town would be clearer.
Berney
+1
Level 84
Oct 23, 2023
I've changed the question to say City to make things clearer so it just needs to be approved.
Stoggler
+2
Level 56
Jan 10, 2026
Saying "would almost certainly be called a "city" by English speakers" is a sweeping statement, and is unhelpful, as usage between the US and Britain (to start with) differs in this respect. Americans tend to use the word 'city' far more widely than we do in Britain: 'city' is an official designation that's restricted and is applied to specific places from a few hundred people to many millions, whereas plenty of large settlements worthy of the name 'city' are officially towns.

Then add in the confusion of usages in other countries like Australia, NZ, SA, Ireland and it gets even murkier.

shbbbbbbbmm
+1
Level 67
Apr 5, 2024
I only speak Dutch and English but I got 20/20
trumpit
+1
Level 30
Mar 3, 2025
17/20 I hate german, horrible language.
Trompete79
+3
Level 60
Apr 12, 2025
calm down bro
rainangel
+1
Level 46
Mar 9, 2025
i thought sea is See, and Meer is ocean
wulf90
+1
Level 63
Jan 9, 2026
We actually use the word Ozean for an ocean (such as the Pacific). But in some instances, the word See (as feminine) is used for some seas (as Beringsee, Sargassosee or Barentsee). "Die See" is a more romantic or old-fashioned way than "das Meer". However, a lake is always "der See".
MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 64
Jun 23, 2025
13/20 oof. Time to do more DuoLingo, or go take a Spanish quiz to make me feel better.
welcomer
+1
Level 32
Jan 9, 2026
10/20
Billy1970
+2
Level 59
Jan 9, 2026
Einfach!
Fifi567
+1
Level 32
Jan 9, 2026
Hi, can I create the reverse quiz for the German section?
Berney
+1
Level 84
Jan 10, 2026
No problem.
Nado
+1
Level 54
Jan 12, 2026
20/20 German
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