List of German expressions in English

Below is a list of German expressions used in English. Many of these are used to imply that the thing being expressed is German, as in Frau or Reich, although sometimes it has no German implication, as in doppelganger or angst.

• abseil[?] (German spelling: abseilen, a verb)
• Achtung[?] (usually followed by an exclamation mark)
• Angst
• Ansatz[?]
• Anschluss
• Arbeit macht frei
• Autobahn
• Bauhaus
• Bezirk[?]
• Biedermeier[?]
• Bierkeller[?]
• Bildungsroman
• Blitzkrieg (and blitz)
• Bratwurst
• Bundestag
• Bundesland
• Bundesliga
• Bundespr�sident
• Dachshund
• Delicatessen[?] (German spelling: Delikatessen; abbv. deli)
• Doberman pinscher (German spelling: Dobermannpinscher)
• Doppelganger (German punctuation: Doppelg�nger)
• Eigenvector (German spelling: Eigenvektor)
• Ersatz[?]
• Fahrvergnugen[?] (German spelling: Fahrvergn�gen, literally pleasure of driving)
• Feinschmecker[?]
• Fest
• Festschrift
• Flak (Flugzeugabwehrkanone )
• Frankfurter
• Frau[?]
• F�hrer (umlaut is usually dropped in English)
• F�rst
• Gedanken experiment[?] (German spelling: Gedankenexperiment, a thought experiment)
• Gem�tlichkeit
• Gestalt
• Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei , secret state police)
• Gesundheit[?] (usually followed by an exclaimation mark)
• Gleichschaltung
• Glockenspiel
• Hamburger
• Hammerklavier[?]
• Heimatvertriebene
• Heldentenor[?]
• Hinterland[?]
• Kaffeeklatsch[?]
• Kaiser
• Kapellmeister
• kaput[?] (German spelling: kaputt)
• Katzenjammer[?]
• Kindergarten (literally children's garden)
• Kitsch (Yidditch)
• Kraft durch Freude
• Kraut
• Kristallnacht
• Kulturkampf[?]
• K�nstlerroman
• Kursaal[?]
• Lager (beer)
• Lebensraum
• Lederhosen[?] (Singular Lederhose in German denotes one pair of trousers. The original Bavarian word is Lederhosn, which is both singular and plural.)
• Leitmotif (German spelling: Leitmotiv)
• Lied (pronounced "leed")
• Lieder ohne Worte[?]
• Luftwaffe
• Methodenstreit
• Muesli[?]
• Oberstleutnant[?] (Lieutenant-Colonel)
• Oktoberfest
• Ostpolitik
• Poltergeist
• Privatdozent
• Pumpernickel[?]
• Putsch
• Putzfrau[?]
• Realpolitik
• Reich (Empire)
• Reichstag (Imperial Diet; see Reichstag (building) and Reichstag (institution))
• Rosenkavalier[?]
• Rucksack[?] (backpack)
• Sauerkraut
• Schadenfreude
• Schnapps (German spelling: Schnaps)
• Sitz im Leben[?]
• Sprechgesang
• Spritzer
• SS (Schutzstaffel)
• Strudel[?]
• Sturmabteilung
• U-Bahn (abbreviated form of Untergrundbahn)
• U-Boot (abbreviated form of Unterseeboot)
• �bermensch
• Uber[?] (German spelling: �ber)
• Umlaut
• Urtext[?]
• Verboten
• V�lkerwanderung (pronounced folkervanderung)
• Volkswagen (proper name in English; pronounced folksvagon, people's car)
• Wahlverwandtschaft[?] (pronounced with a v) (from Goethe's Die Wahlverwandschaften[?])
• Waldsterben[?]
• Wanderlust[?]
• Wehrmacht
• Weltanschauung
• Weltschmerz[?]
• Wunderkind[?]
• Zeitgeist[?]
• Zeitschrift[?]
• Zugzwang

In completing crosswords it is important to know that 'the' in German is der, die or das (see article[?]).

See also

• List of French expressions in common English
• List of Latin expressions in common English[?]
• List of Spanish expressions in common English
• False friends