Mems of the moment

Mnemonic

"bezeichnen" has the verb "zeichnen", "to draw" in it. When you are describing something, or marking something, or labelling something, you are "drawing" it.

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Sturm und Drang, (German: “Storm and Stress”), was a German literary movement of the late 18th century that exalted nature, feeling, and human individualism and sought to overthrow the Enlightenment cult of Rationalism. Goethe and Schiller began their careers as prominent members of the movement.

(Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica)

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Mnemonic

Ein guter Mensch in seinem dunklen Drange | Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst. (Goethe, Faust I, , Prolog, V. 328). --- A good person in his dark compulsion is well aware of the right path. Image from Piano Piano! on Flickr

Mnemonic

My dream MOUNTAIN is one where you sit at the summit and eat BURGers all day. A BURGer MOUNTAIN - the stuff fast food healthy living dreams are made of. Image from Linda Cronin on Flickr

Sample

"DER BERG ist absolut riesig! Bist du ihn wirklich gestern hochgeklettert?" --- "THE MOUNTAIN is absolutely enormous! Did you really climb up it yesterday?!""

Etymology

The word derives from the Middle High German berc, Old High German perac, which also appears in Nordic languages and in Gothic. (Source: Wiktionary)

Pronunciation mem

IPA: bɛʁk, Plural: ˈbɛʁɡə (Source: Wiktionary)

Sample

Der ZauberBERG von Thomas Mann ist mein lieblingsbuch. Es ist eine faszinierende Untersuchung von Raum, Zeit, zeitgemäße Politik und was es heißt, Mensch zu sein. --- Thomas Mann's Magic MOUNTAIN is my favourite book. It is a fascinating exploration of space, time, contemporary politics, and what it means to be human. Image from blatch on Flickr

Extra info

Used on it's own, this nouns is often linked to the judicial and administrative jargon (its meaning varying from 'ordinance', to 'provision', 'decree', 'order'...)
Used in day to day language, it is to be found in structures such as:
zur Verfügung stehen --- to be at disposal

ging nieder; niedergegangen
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more often used in the sense of "to fall heavily from the sky":
Der Regen ging den ganzen Tag ins Tal nieder --- The rain fell heavily all day in the valley.

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