German Vocabulary: Literature

German Vocabulary: Die Stadt - The City

Picture: Town hall square and Alster lake, Hamburg, Germany.

Die Stadt (f) - The city

das Gebäude (n) - the building

die Straße (f) - the street

der Bürgersteig (m) / das Trottoir (n) (Switzerland & Austria) -  the pavement

das Hochhaus (n) - the tower/high-rise building 

der Wolkenkratzer (m) - the skyscraper

die Ampel (f) - the traffic light

das Verkehrsschild (n) - the traffic sign

das Auto (n) - the car

der Bus (m) - bus 

die Bushaltestelle (f)  - the bus stop

der Zug (m) - the train

die Bahn (f) - the train (less formal)

der Bahnhof (m) - the train station

der Zebrastreifen (m) / der Schutzweg (m) (Austria) / der Fussgängerstreifen (m) (Switzerland) - the crosswalk

das Taxi (n) - the taxi 

das Fahrrad (n) - the bicycle

das Krankenhaus (n) / das Spital (n) (Switzerland & Austria) - the hospital

die Gasse (f) - the alleyway 

die Kreuzung (f)  - the crossing

die Garage (f) - the garage

der Parkplatz (m) - the parking space/parking lot

das Parkhaus (n) - the multi-story car park

das Rathaus (n) - town hall

der Verkehr (m) - the traffic

das Haus (n) - the house

der Platz (m) - the square

die Apotheke (f) - the pharmacy

das Kino (n) - the cinema

Die Post (f) / Das Postamt (n) - the post office

das Hotel (n) - the hotel

das Restaurant (n) - the restaurant

die Bank (f) - the bank 

die Schule (f) - the school

die Universität (f) - the university

der Flughafen (m) - the airport

das Stadion (n) - the stadium

der Park (m) - the park

der Spielplatz (m) - the playground

der Kindergarten (m) - the kindergarten

der Fluss (m) - the river

der Hafen (m) - the harbor/port

die Philharmonie (f) - the philharmonic

die Oper (f) - the opera

das Theater (n) - the theater

die Kirche (f) - the church 

die Kathedrale (f) / der Dom (m) - the cathedral

Die Moschee (f) - the Mosque

Die Synagoge (f) - the Synagogue

かっこいい／かわいい熟語のリスト A list of cool/cute Japanese compound words

別腹（べつばら）→ (n.) having room for dessert even if one is full (lit. extra stomach)

口寂しい（くちさびしい）→ (n.) the feeling of wanting to put something in one’s mouth (lit. mouth + lonely)

食い違い（くいちがい）→ (n.) diverging or conflicting opinions (lit. eating + different)

食い倒れ（くいだおれ）→ (n.) getting into debt by extravagance in food (lit. eating + bad debt/collapse)

寝酒（ねさけ）→ (n.) night cap ⭐︎☽ (lit. sleep + alcohol)

昼寝（ひるね）→ (n.) siesta, nap (lit. daytime + sleep)

寝坊（ねぼう）→ (n.) late riser, sleepyhead (lit. sleep + someone who~)

朝寝（あさね）→ (n./–suru v.) sleeping late in the morning (lit. morning + sleep)

早起き（はやおき）→ (n.) early riser (lit. early + wake up)

歩き回る（あるきまわる）→ (v.) walking about (lit. walk + turn)

水遊び（みずあそび）→ (n.) splashing about (lit. water + play)

長話（ながはなし）→ (n.) a long talk (lit. talk + long)

話々（はなしばなし）→ (n.) small talk (lit. talk + talk)

昔話（むかしばなし）→ (n.) legends, old tales, reminiscence (lit. olden days + talk)

心強い（こころずよい）→ (–i adj.) reassuring, heartening (lit. heart + strong)

猫好き（ねこずき）→ (n.) cat lover (lit. cat + like)

猫舌（ねこじた）→ (n.) dislike of hot drinks or food (lit. cat + tongue)

積ん読（つんどく）→ (n./–suru v.) buying books and not reading them (lit. pile up/stack + read)

忘れ物（わすれもの）→ (n.) something you left behind, forgot (lit. forgot + thing)

蛇足（だそく）→ (n.) useless addition, redundancy (lit. snake + legs)  ˉ̶̡̭̭ ( ´͈ ᗨ `͈ ) ˉ̶̡̭̭

Be sad but get up. You don’t have to shower. You can put on the same clothes you wore yesterday. Nobody will care. The sky is blue, wildflowers are blooming by the side of the road. Strangers have stories to tell. Go for a walk, go for a drive, go to a greenhouse, a bookstore, a movie theater. You can stay in bed but nothing is going to happen there. Sometimes you’ve really just got to get the fuck up.

我田引水

がでんいんすい

Literally: Drawing water for your own rice paddy. Meaning: Doing or saying things for your own benefit.

(via uni-venture)

“Venus Beach”

blue surface with white fog by takay Via Flickr: and autumn colors. Matsudai,Niigata,japan.

Dark German Vocab

Vergangenheit (f) - past  Gegenwart (f) - present Zukunft (f) - future 

Zeit (f) - time Zeitreise (f) - time travel Wurmloch (n) - wormhole schwarzes Loch (n) - black hole Maschine (f) - machine Zeitmaschine (f) - time machine

Kind(-er) (n) - child(-ren)  Elternteil (m) - parent Fremder (m) - stranger Polizei (f) - police

Selbstmord (m) - suicide Brief (m) - letter Höhle (f) - cave Wald (m) - forest Atomkraftwerk (n) - nuclear power plant

vermisst [inf. vermissen] - missing [inf. to miss]  verschwinden - to disappear

zweitausendneunzehn - 2019 neunzehnhundertsechsundachtzig - 1986 neunzehnhundertdreiundfünfzig - 1953

Let me know if there are any mistakes!

thank you, wiktionary

Did you know there are 2 type of sleep in Japanese words?

For sleeping as in “go to bed/lying down to take a nap”, it is 寝る (Neru). And the opposite is 起きる (Okiru), which means to get up from the lie down posture).

For sleeping as in “you’re in train/classroom and fell asleep” (not necessarily lying down), it is 眠る (Nemuru). So to wake up someone who’s sleeping on a train, you will need to use 目覚める (Mezameru), which means to open their eyes and be sober.

The key here is in the posture! :D But sometimes they are also interchangeable. One thing to note though, when you’re talking about “What time do you go to sleep at night?” or anything similar, you always use 寝る (Neru).

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