Tuesday, May 5, 2009

How do you pronounce the German name G枚rlich?

I applied eariler in the year to be a foregin exchange student next year in Germany and I just recieved my documents. That is the last name of the family I am to stay with and im curious as how you would pronounce G枚rlich in English. Please help me, thankyou so much. You help is appriciated

How do you pronounce the German name G枚rlich?
Go to http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-spe... select the voice of a German speaker and type in G枚rlich.


It's way better than trying to explain how to pronounce it.
Reply:G枚r-lich...





You have to learn the 枚-sound(not o) and ch-sound(it is not sh,ck tsh or so..) and the german r-sound.





The simpliest way would be if you watch this video(ch-sound is at 3:05--R-sound at 4:02--short 枚-sound at 8:42)





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCW-GR-9...


Where can I find the meaning of the German name Lauterman?

The Lanterman name in USA is not necessarily related to the Lantermans in Germany, some are only related to Lautermans in Germany. What does the name mean? What is the origin?

Where can I find the meaning of the German name Lauterman?
"loud" is not the correct translation when "lauter" is part of a family name





"Lauter" comes Old High German "lutter" and stands for "clean", "cleaned", "bright", "lucid" and "water"





some places, rivers and persons are named lauter today
Reply:Lauter is German for loud but this doesn't mean your ancestor shouted all the time. He could have been just the opposite - very quiet - and the comic nickname stuck as a family name.
Reply:It means loud man.


What is a good German name to call my Volkswagen?

I am male but I have no gender preference. I've thought of a few: Gretchen, Borgh, Otto, Hans, Ludwig, Ulrich, Wolfgang... any more ideas? It's a black Jetta if that matters.





Don't say Adolf.

What is a good German name to call my Volkswagen?
Brigitta


Dieter


Fritz


Liesl


Nina
Reply:Otto is an awesome name because it sounds like "auto." I think Adler is also a good name.
Reply:Gerta, or gertie - feminine


Hans or Otto- masculine
Reply:Fredierich, Wilhelm.
Reply:fukingroovin
Reply:Farfigneugan, or Mein Luft. which Luftfahart = Jet
Reply:I like mine.... Pudgy.

iris

What is the German name for the lower level or basement of a home?

keller is the word for cellar or basement in german.

What is the German name for the lower level or basement of a home?
Untehausen.


What do you think of the German name Mädchen?

What do you think of Mädchen (MED shen)? It means "girl" in German.





I personally think it's a nice substitute for the horridly masculine Madison.

What do you think of the German name Mädchen?
It really is a nice substitute for Madison; it even has the nicknames Maddie and Mads.





Cute name, Janie!





Edit:


Hm, true. There aren't very many options past Mads/Maddie/Madders; there's Chen and Chenny, but those aren't very pretty. Perhaps Mimi?
Reply:I think people would have trouble pronouncing it, I find it quite hard to say-your mouth has to make a funny shape when you say it and you sound like you're lisping.
Reply:It's lovely and I like it, but it's very foreign to me. The only other time I've seen it is when I watched the movie 'Madchen in Uniform'.





Med is the only nickname I can think of. Or maybe Mim.
Reply:It does sound way better than Madison! I cannot believe all the people on here that like that name! It's horrid! It sounds like a last name.
Reply:i think its beautiful. is it a name in its own right though? if its not then if Madchen ever goes to Germany or meets a German person she will be laughed at heartily for being named "Girl".
Reply:its pretty...i like it! =D
Reply:Cute.


What could the embarrasing German name be?

My colleagues boyfriend has an embarrasing middle name but she wont tell us what it is. All we know is that it is German, two sylables, in English is means something embarrasing and also someone famous has the same name.





What could it be? We can only think it is Janka.

What could the embarrasing German name be?
Probably "Beat". "Beat" is pronounced as "be at" and means in German "the lucky one". It's a common name but awful in English.





Another one could be "Volker". That's a German name within and most of it's bearers don't like it.





There are all sorts of silly German names like Heinrich, Jens-Dirk, Traugott (trust God!!), Fuerchtegott (be scared of God!!) and all the similar rubbish.
Reply:Siegfried


Heinrich


Hildebrand


Heidi


Ernst


Kriemhild





names which are a little emabarssing in my opinion
Reply:Bonka?
Reply:hair mann (hermann, as in hermann hess)
Reply:FRITZ ! gotta be it ;)
Reply:Hitler


What was the old German name for Australia in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?

It was a name tha had nothing to do with Australia, Terra Australis or New Holland. It was totally different.

What was the old German name for Australia in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
Terra Australis (also: Terra Australis Incognita, Latin for "the unknown land of the South") was an imaginary continent, appearing on European maps from the 15th to the 18th century.





It was introduced by Aristotle. Aristotle's ideas were later expanded by Ptolemy, a Greek cartographer from the first century AD, who believed that the Indian Ocean was enclosed on the south by land. When, during the Renaissance, Ptolemy became the main source of information for European cartographers, the land started to appear on their maps. Although voyages of discovery did sometimes reduce the area where the continent could be found, cartographers kept drawing it on their maps and scientists argued for its existence, with such arguments as that there should be a large landmass in the south as a counterweight to the known landmasses in the Northern Hemisphere. Usually the land was shown as a continent around the South Pole, but much larger than the actual Antarctica, spreading far north -- in particular in the Pacific Ocean. New Zealand, first seen by a European (Abel Tasman) in 1642, was by some regarded as a part of the continent, as well as Africa and Australia.





The idea of Terra Australis was finally corrected by Matthew Flinders and James Cook.





Cook circumnavigated New Zealand, showing it could not be part of a large continent. On his second voyage he circumnavigated the globe at a very high southern latitude, at some places even crossing the south polar circle, showing that any possible southern continent must lie well within the cold polar areas. There could be no extension into regions with a temperate climate, as had been thought before.





Flinders took command of an expedition to investigate the coastline of Australia in 1801, which he circled in an anti-clockwise direction, threading the Great Barrier Reef through what is now called Flinders Passage and surveying the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north. His charts of the coastline were remarkably accurate. After completing his work in 1803, he sailed for England. His ship was wrecked on an uncharted reef, however, and he returned to Australia in the ship's cutter, a remarkable 1,130-km (700-mile) journey. Although practically unheard of in his native England, Flinders is well known in Australia, where he has more statues erected in his honour than anyone else, with the exception of Queen Victoria.





The country of Australia was first termed Terra Australis by Flinders when he wrote a book of this title containing the maps he had made on his several voyages, and the name Australia is derivative of the word Australis, which means southern in Latin.
Reply:It was Van Dieman's Land. Abel Janszoon Tasman named it. A dutch name.

ginger lily

I need a german name for a male Schnauzer thats black and gray colored.Any ideas?

we are stuck so any help would be vey much appreciated.

I need a german name for a male Schnauzer thats black and gray colored.Any ideas?
Male


路 Arko - praktical, classical, good


路 Hasso - absolut classic and nearly a Synonym for a dog in Germany


路 Max - short and crisp, from Maximilian


路 Timmy - first choice for small quick dogs





Quelle: Ludwig, Gerd: 1000 Hundenamen von A bis Z, GU 2003





Schnauzel or Burtzel would be nice as well. Burtzel means so much as rolling about but more like falling over.
Reply:Axel, Blitz, Franz, Fritz, Kasper, Meister, Otto, Schatz (darling), and Siegfried are all names I would call my dog if I wanted a german name for her. I hope you like at least one of these!
Reply:How about Fritz.
Reply:Fritz
Reply:"Umlaut" would be my choice for your dogs name. I don't like giving a dog a human name. Umlaut is unique and sort of cute yet not silly. It is also a two syllable sound which is ideal for a dogs name.


The umlaut mark (or simply umlaut) and the diaeresis mark (or simply diaeresis) or trema are two diacritics consisting of a pair of dots placed over a letter.
Reply:Kaiser (Kai for short)
Reply:schultz
Reply:Sebastian (Basti for short), Florian (Flori for short) or Benedikt (maybe Benny or something to that effect for short).
Reply:colonel klink
Reply:Adolph? I mean I realize a lot of people will think of Hitler right off the bat, but there's a lot of other Germans with that name.
Reply:Hmmmm....how 'bout Siegfried....or Tristan....or Hans. Oh yeah.....my first year high school german coming back....if he's a happy little guy that wags his tail a lot, you could call him "Wackleschwanz" (pronounced with a V instead of a W)...it means "Wiggle Tail".
Reply:Hans oder Otto sind gut!!
Reply:Blixa, not very common male name





add Wolfgang?
Reply:Helmut.
Reply:Mutz with a long U





my little ID icon is my imported German Shepherd..his name is Mutz


What is the German name for a recipe for a stuffed pig stomach?

I had not heard of this one before and since I am German I am curious.

What is the German name for a recipe for a stuffed pig stomach?
Is this what you're thinking of?





Knipp (Speise) from Bremen and Lower Saxony, north Germany. Made with any animal leftovers, spiced with salt, pepper and thickened with cereal. Served in either a sausage or in slices usually with fried potatoes and bacon. Tastes exactly the same as Scottish haggis.





Could also be pf盲lzer saumagen in the south.


What is the german name of the serial stories published in Germany?

I have heard that there is a common form of serially published stories in Germany. I don't know if they are in magazines or books, but I've been told that they are available at any marktkauf. I'm actually looking for more information about them, but I don't have a german word to use as a basis of that search.

What is the german name of the serial stories published in Germany?
Hi VonBaden...





i need a few more information to help you.


what kind of stories do talk about?





do you mean small books with love stories, or fantasy stories, criminal stories ?





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thanks, that are the information i need.


I know what you mean.





At the moment i forgot the name but i try to remember.


They are printed in big newspapers or magazines for example.





o dear, what is the name...





"Fortsetzungsroman" !!!!!


that麓s it. :)





difficult to write in english and think in german ... :)


I hope that is what you are talking about.





or


"Fortsetzungsgeschichten"


"Folgegeschichten"





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@wolschou:





i think it can be both.


The short storys can be very small books like you mentioned but the traditional "Fortsetzungsromane" are sequenzes/chapters from a story which are printed in f.e. newspapers or magazines week after week or day after day..
Reply:fortsetzungsroman or fortsetzungsgeschichte is the word you are looking for.


although they are not just a few chapters of a whole novel, like you seem to think. it is more like a TV series, where each episode is in itself resolved, but following episodes can build upon it, like the third season of star trek enterprise which described the valiant crew's twentyfour episode mission to find and destroy a doomsday weapon that is being employed to destroy earth.





as for the publishing mode, they are usually either in in paperback like medium sized pocket books... or even cheaper like stapled magazines. only in book size, and around sixty pages long.





very popular series of this kind are among others: perry rhodan, lassiter, der landser, and of course the ongoing adventures of various doctors, lawyers or international jet setters...