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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.

Wenn das wahr wäre, würde es beeindruckend sein.

'Achtung' also means 'respect'.

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

as it also means super*, do you mean :)

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

Whether you use an Eszett (ß) when writing 'weiß'/'weiss' does not affect the meaning of that word.

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.

Yep, 'wissen' is the infinitive form of 'know', so if 'know' were an answer than 'wissen' would be listed, not 'weiß'. The basic form of the adjective 'white' is 'weiß', so that is the correct answer.

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

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........

100% 3:03 remaining.

Sad that Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz didn‘t make the cut.

That video is satirical and the English translation it gives is incorrect

never learned german,but got 15 on first try

The choice of words tells a lot about... people? Germans? Clichés? ;-)

über also means by, about and via

As someone currently learning German, I am planning on creating some German-related quizzes in the near future which would be beneficial for anyone else learning German!

The above link links to all of my quizzes. Here is a link to my 'German' quiz series.