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die Gans

goose

Die Gans schwimmt auf dem See.

The goose is swimming on the lake.

Zu Weihnachten essen wir Gans.

We eat goose for Christmas.

((die Gans)) as subject goose as subject The goose is white.

((sth.acc)) as accusative object goose as object We are eating a goose.

Related animals: Ente (duck), Schwan (swan)

From Proto-Germanic *gans, cognate with English 'goose'.

The sound a goose makes, 'honk honk', can be imagined as 'gans gans' to remember the word.

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