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If you write Leben with a capital L it becomes an noun and should be translated as life. In German it's important if the word is written with capital or a small first letter.

I agree. Or if you have decided to capitalize everything anyway, at least have "life" be accepted as an answer.

Oh, I was wondering why some of the words were capitalized and others weren't. Thanks for the learning moment.

In German, all nouns must be capitalised. Since there are some nouns directly derived from a verb (e.g.; Leben, leben) it makes it easier to differentiate the two.

So the literal translation for zeitgeist is time ghost? How very strange.

24/24. Alles in Ordnung.

If that were true, that would be impressive.

I knew Ubermensh meant superman, and then coloquially uber is used all the time to mean super, great, best, better than, ultra, or very/extreme (a.k.a. try this! It's uber good!)... and tried about 10 different words that meant something to that effect but nothing that worked.

Same here...uber as super...really got me then I remembered directions and uber meaning the room "over" another or something....worked...

Superhuman might be more fitting for Übermensch.

Über means over... isn't it obvious that it's the same word?

People in the US use it differently. No one in Germany would use the word "über" to express that something is great. On the other hand, we use the word "Handy" for "cell phone" ...

"banned" should be accepted for verboten. Almost didn't get it because of that.

'Achtung' also means 'respect'.

Please accept "Super" for Uber, as it also means over.

I found "Achtung!" hard because I don't think English has a single word with the exactly same meaning. I'd say "Watch out!" but it didn't accept two words. Couldn't think of "attention".

I tried "beware".

"Watch out", "caution", "beware", "respect" would all be correct for "Achtung".

I tried "beware" and "watch out" and "look our" and... just couldn't get to "attention"

Shouldn't "know" be accepted for weiß since it can meen that too?

weiß = white, weiss = know. Its the way its spelled. No german with a good writing education will write "ich weiß", when we mean "I know".

Dear McCoy, you are wrong. It´s always written "weiß", for both meanings.

Not quite, only in Germany and Austria. We Swiss don‘t use the ß

With the capital W "Weiß" can't be translated to "know".

Everybody, if you re-translate "know" back into German, you will only get the basic form "wissen". "Weiß" is just a conjugated form of "wissen" (as in "ich weiß"). I don't suppose QM has intended to be that specific in this quiz.

bahn... tried way, path, road, street, track, highway, route, etc etc etc etc etc... all of which appear in the online dictionary when I looked it up.

As far as I know, "Bahn" is basically a synonym of "Weg", i.e. way.

yes makes sense. Autobahn... highway... way for autos. Infobahn.. information superhighway.. internet. Doesn't have to be a railroad track.

I agree, Bahn is generally used for a much broader track for speedy traffic. So that works for Auto-bahn = highway, and Eisen-bahn = railroad (literally ironway). Internet highway seems evident, too, but only in English. We don't use it as such in German.

I thought of the Autobahn and tried road, highway, freeway, etc. Somehow I eventually got it, but not sure how.

Yes, bahn is path. It's used for rail, but also road.

When I saw Zwei I immediately thought of Zweiback and tried all variations of toast, bread, etc. Had to look it up to see that Zweiback means "twice baked". Now it seems so obvious.

Studied German for 4 1/2 years. Had a brain cramp on Blitz and Flug (kept thinking "air" as in airplane and airport) and not as in flight. Love to see more of these.

Bahn means different things not only railway but also lane (of a highway) and road

Quite a challenge, as a French working in Germany, to think and translate from German to English without thinking in French...

A ship would be Schiff, though it's really just a matter of size. They are often used interchangeably.

As interchangeably as town and city? I'm sure any city would balk at the notion to being called town. So don't do it to maritime vehicles, please.

18/24, nice, because I'am from Poland, so this is two forein languages from me ;)

Well done, I admire anyone that can handle one other language never mind two.

Bahn can also be roadway, path highway, all of which are common, so yeah..... :-/ (German language student)

I tried all of those........

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