Click to Translate - Yiddish

Can you guess the correct Yiddish translation for each of these English words?
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Last updated: March 8, 2023
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Grandmother
Room
Table
Now
Tuesday
Us
Make
Coat
Opposite
Hear
White
Teacher
After
Teeth
Dog
Bread
Tree
Train
Fourteen
Why
אונדז (aundz)
איצט (itst)
באַן (ban)
באָבע (bobe)
בוים (boym)
ברויט (broyt)
דינסטיק (dinstik)
הונט (hunt)
הערן (hern)
ווייַס (vays)
טיש (tish)
לערער (lerer)
מאַכן (makhn)
מאַנטל (mantl)
נאָך (nokh)
פאַרקערט (farkert)
פארוואס (farvas)
פערצן (fertsn)
ציין (tseyn)
צימער (tsimer)
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9 Comments
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Level 95
Mar 20, 2023
Great quiz!
+1
Level 58
Aug 14, 2023
My score for guessing the words in Yiddish was 3/20.
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Level 24
Nov 11, 2023
Except for three words it IS almost like german
+4
Level 50
Apr 12, 2024
I had 18/20. Knowing German, English and some Spanish is helpful.
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Level 65
Apr 12, 2024
17/20 just by knowing German. No knowledge of Yiddish whatsoever.
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Level 70
Oct 26, 2024
20/20 easy piecy

Knowing German does help a lot

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Level 36
Jan 14, 2025
20/20 for knowing German. It's basically High German with weird but understandable orthography.
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Level 72
Apr 24, 2025
20/20, all from German. It's a dialect.
+3
Level 46
Sep 16, 2025
As both a Yiddish speaker and a German speaker, Eastern Yiddish(The modern form of Yiddish) includes a large amount of Slavic grammar, Hebrew loanwords, and consonant and vowel shifts.