True Friends in English and German Vocabulary – Nearly identical words
Here you will find words which are nearly the same in German and in English.
This table is not complete. Technical and geographical words are listed only in a very small amount because of clarity.
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| English | German |
|---|---|
| accent | Akzent |
| alcohol | Alkohol |
| article | Artikel |
| assistant | Assistent |
| automatic | automatisch |
| banana | Banane |
| bed | Bett |
| beer | Bier |
| bible | Bibel |
| biology | Biologie |
| blouse | Bluse |
| bomb | Bombe |
| brown | braun |
| buffet | Büfett |
| bull | Bulle |
| bush | Busch |
| calendar | Kalender |
| canal | Kanal |
| candidate | Kandidat |
| card | Karte (allgemein) |
| carrot | Karotte |
| carton | Karton |
| cassette | Kassette |
| cathedral | Kathedrale |
| cellar | Keller |
centre, center  |
Zentrum |
| cigarette | Zigarette |
| class | Klasse |
| club | Klub |
| coffee | Kaffee |
| complex | Komplex |
| concept | Konzept |
| concert | Konzert |
| continent | Kontinent |
| corridor | Korridor |
| costume | Kostüm |
| course | Kurs |
| cultural | kulturell |
| elephant | Elefant |
| expert | Experte |
| fall | fallen |
| figure | Figur (Körper) |
| fire | Feuer |
| fish | Fisch |
| function | Funktion |
| garden | Garten |
| geography | Geografie |
| glass | Glas |
| grass | Gras |
| grill | grillen |
| gymnastics | Gymnastik |
| hat | Hut |
| help | Hilfe |
| hen | Henne |
| horizon | Horizont |
| horoscope | Horoskop |
| house | Haus |
| insect | Insekt |
| ladder | Leiter |
| light | Licht |
| lip | Lippe |
| manuscript | Manuskript |
| march | Marsch |
| market | Markt |
| mathematics | Mathematik |
| medicine | Medizin |
| metal | Metall |
| method | Methode |
| metre | Meter |
| milk | Milch |
| music | Musik |
| nerves | Nerven |
| ocean | Ozean |
| oil | Öl |
| opera | Oper |
| party | Partei |
| password | Passwort |
| patient | Patient |
| physics | Physik |
| politics | Politik |
| president | Präsident |
| radical | radikal |
| rat | Ratte |
| raw | rau |
| reception | Rezeption |
| respect | Respekt |
| right | richtig |
| rust | Rost |
| salt | Salz |
| sea | die See (das Meer) |
| second | Sekunde |
| shadenfreude | Schadenfreude |
| shit | Scheiße |
| shock | Schock |
| silver | Silber |
| singer | Sänger |
| slime | Schleim |
| smuggler | Schmuggler |
| socks | Socken |
| sport (nicht Schulfach!) | Sport |
| storm | Sturm |
| strategy | Strategie |
| style | Stil |
| summer | Sommer |
| systematically | systematisch |
| tactics | Taktik |
| temperature | Temperatur |
| title | Titel |
| to begin | beginnen |
| to bring | (her)bringen |
| to laugh | lachen |
| to sing | singen |
| tomato | Tomate |
| tractor | Traktor |
| underworld | Unterwelt |
| wonder | Wunder |
| worm | Wurm |
Spelling:
Most German words written with >ch<, have >gh< in English.
Example: er brachte - he brought
Thanks to Alex, Benedikt, Jan, Magdalena, Markus, Marlen and Otto.