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# german

«german» in Mova's school dictionary: **the language of Germany; it is also spoken in Austria and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (German); noun (German = the language; a German, Germans = people of Germany)

### meaning for a pupil

1) German is the language of Germany; it is also spoken in Austria and Switzerland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/#m1)

2) German means from Germany: a German car, German bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/#m2)

3) A German is a person from Germany. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

a school subject or language group; pupils counted; in geography: Germany is in Europe and its capital is Berlin; in everyday life: words that came from German, like kindergarten and hamburger; phrases: «speak German», «German class», «German shepherd» (a dog)

### examples

- 10 pupils learn German. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/#x1)
- The German class has 18 children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/#x2)
- He knows 50 German words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/#x3)
- How many more learn French than German? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/#x4)
- «Danke» means thank you in German. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/#x5)
- Kindergarten is a German word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/#x6)
- Our neighbour has a German shepherd dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/#x7)
- Berlin is the capital of Germany. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/#x8)
- Then she spoke to him in German. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/#x9)

### note

Groups may overlap with other languages. «How many more learn French than German» means subtract. Always a capital G: German. Trap: «germ» (a tiny bug) is a different word.

### In the corpora

- [By day two he's teamed up with two German kids using hand signals: only children often learn to make friends fast.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/498-the-only-child-a-quiet-house/27/)
- [Nobody in 1300 called it the Silk Road: a German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen, invented the name in 1877.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/9/)
- [The name "Silk Road" was invented by a German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen, in 1877.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/28-the-silk-road/22/)
- [In 1517 Martin Luther, a German monk, criticised the Church for selling forgiveness, and printing spread his ideas quickly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/10/)
- [Reformers translated the Bible from Latin into German, English and other languages so ordinary people could read it themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/25-printing-the-renaissance-and-the-reformation/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «german» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/german/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.