Random Common German Nouns Quiz #2

Type the English translation of these common German nouns. 50 nouns are listed every time you play, out of a total of 100. The nouns and their order change every time!

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Try to give the most common translations

Note: the accepted translations for each noun may not be the only valid ones

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First submitted	November 26, 2019
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German	English
die Gruppe	group
die Szene	scene
die Aufmerksamkeit	attention
der Vater	father
der Schmerz	pain
das Problem	problem
das Land	country
der Fluss	river
die Tasche	bag, pocket
die Flasche	bottle
die Träne	tear(drop)
der Bildschirm	screen
die Nase	nose
der Schatten	shadow, shade
das Ohr	ear
der Zahn	tooth
das Meer	sea, ocean
das Feld	field, country(side)
die Polizei	police
das Bild	picture
das Spiel	game, play
die Dame	lady
der Grund	reason, ground
der Himmel	sky, heaven
der Sinn	sense

German	English
der Ehemann	husband
der Brief	letter
die Party	party
der Krieg	war
das Gebäude	building
die Menge	quantity, large number (of), crowd
das Schlafzimmer	bedroom
der Berg	mountain, hill
die Nachricht(en)	news
der Onkel	uncle
die Musik	music
die Waffe	weapon
die Rechnung	calculation, bill
die Haut	skin
das Zentrum	centre
die Tochter	daughter
das Pferd	horse
der Kaffee	coffee
der Sommer	summer
die Brust	chest, breast
das Schild	sign, number plate, nameplate
der Schuh	shoe
die Rast	rest
die Bar	bar
der Hals	neck

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4 Comments

Level 82

Nov 26, 2019

The source from which I got these nouns is far from perfect. It sometimes gives the wrong gender for the German noun, and it is almost perfectly clear that the author must have got the German word and translated it into English via Google Translate. While this might not seem too bad, it is also almost certain that he then added an 's' or 'es' to end of the English words, then translated those to German via Google Translate, so that the German 'plural form' of each noun often greatly differs from the singular form.

Level 82

Nov 26, 2019

For instance, the word for 'tear' in German was given as 'die Reiß' - the translation is incorrect, as 'reiß' is the root form of 'reißen', which is the verb that means 'tear', as in 'pull something apart by force'. The correct German noun for that sense of 'tear' should be 'der Riss' - the noun is masculine (and thus uses 'der'), not feminine. The author then found the 'plural' for the word by adding an 's' to the English word 'tear' and translating it via Google Translate, which gave 'Tränen', meaning 'tears' as in 'teardrops'.

Level 82

Nov 26, 2019

That is just one example of the wealth of errors present in the list. Still, I believe it is a good source for commonly-used German nouns (I'm not sure where the author got these nouns from though, or if he actually found a list of common English words, then translated them into singular and plural forms in German separately (via Google Translate). A particularly bizarre instance is noun #215 - 'die Lebenden', translated as '(the) living' in English. I don't know what the author was thinking - he must added an 's' after 'living' (thus producing 'livings'), then translated it to give the German plural 'die Livings', which makes no sense and does not exist in the German language.

Level 82

Nov 26, 2019

That's why I always check whether the given gender of each noun is correct and the definitions of each noun if I am not sure, and also to find multiple definitions. Note that many of these German words have multiple definitions and therefore and be translated to multiple words in English. I decide to accept only the most popular translation with the addition of perhaps (usually) one or two more if that German noun is commonly used to refer to those words in English. I may also accept some common synonyms. However, if I find that some English translations are more often referred to in German by some other term, then those translations are not accepted. For instance, I accept 'ground' and 'reason' for 'der Grund', but not 'bottom', as the latter word is more commonly referred to by 'der Boden'.