Germany is not a landlocked country but has shores to not only one sea, but two – the North Sea and Baltic Sea. And guess how they’re called in German – “Nordee” and “Ostsee” (“ost” means east), respectively.
Germans use a word “sea” (in German “See”) for lakes and seas in their language, but using different articles – masculine article + “see” = lake, feminine article + “see” = sea.
In each language we can find some false friends. So don’t be surprised when you talk with Germans in English, and they call as “sea” both lakes and seas.
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Niemcy, podobnie jak Polska, mają i góry, i morze. Jednak mają dostęp nie tylko do Morza Bałtyckiego, ale i do Północnego. Po niemiecku Morze Bałtyckie to Ostsee (dosłownie tłumacząc – “Morze Wschodnie”), a Północne to Nordee. Niemieckie słowo “see” może oznaczać morze lub jezioro w zależności czy to słowo występuje w rodzaju męskim, czy żeńskim.
The sea and a Gull. The image is beautiful.
Thank you!
The sea in the photo is a little different to some of the lovely blue waters you’ve sometimes shown. It’s very grey and swirling – quite dramatic in a way.
That’s true, cold European sea 😉 but also can be charming. This photo was taken in cloudy January, so it also makes a difference.
Oh, moi aussi j’avais une mouette sur mon blog aujourd’hui… Ta photo est superbe! Bise et bon vendredi tout doux!
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Great photo!
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Lovely photograph, but a very difficult language for the English speaker who doesn’t have to bother with genders or noun and verb endings.
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Indeed, German grammar is quite complicated, but English pronunciation is more tricky, I guess 🙂
Onder dit blogje kan ik natuurlijk gewoon nederlands schrijven hihi… mooie foto
That’s true, actually some places close to the North Sea remind me a lot the Netherlands! 🙂
Fajna Fota 🙂 Fale skojarzyły mi natychmiast się z … loczkami gwiazdki włoskiej telewizji śniadaniowej – moja toskańska podopieczna nieustannie ogląda telewizję – od rana do nocy, więc i ja czasem zerknę. Chciałam powiedzieć, że dzisiaj “gwiazdka” dała plamę, gdy zaprosiła poważnych gości, ale potrząsała tak uroczo swoimi loczkami, że chyba nigdy jej stamtąd nie zwolnią 🙂 Grunt, że starowinki oglądające nieustannie telewizję są zachwycone są zachwycone tymi loczkami 🙂 A ja teraz zachwycam się falami morskimi i bohaterem pierwszego planu. Ciao 🙂
Dziekuję!
Ale fajne skojarzenie! 🙂
Miłego weekendu!
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Very nice capture of the waves. The composition is very beautiful.
Thank you! 🙂
Superbe photo avec le rouleau de la vague et ce joli goéland 🙂
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Have a nice weekend! 🙂
Hi,
Nice post. Thanks muchly for the recent like at naturestimeline.
Best Wishes
Tony Powell and naturestimeline
I always enjoy learning anything that has to do with language, but learning about the seas around them as well, loved it.
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I love how you froze the movement of the wave!
sono una popolazione molto pratica…infondo sempre acqua è…ha ha
foto magnifica, anche le tue immagini a volte sono un po’ tedesche 🙂
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Nice shot!
Thank you 🙂
Like gulls and the sea for walking there and listening to the wind
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Great shot! 🙂 Many of my family visit the Baltic and I would love to see Gdansk and the coastal resorts as well as central Poland.
Thank you 🙂
I’m happy to hear you’d like go to Poland, at the coast Gdańsk and Hel are my favorite places 🙂
Each language has its tripwires and German is full of that (Finnish as well as far as I know). We live now right between Nordsee and Ostsee, each direction just 45min away by car so during summer we can chose which beach to visit 🙂
sounds great! You live in a lovely place! 🙂
What a beautiful photo !!!!
A meow of Frida and Bilbo
Thank you! 🙂
Have a nice day!
i just wanted to add that we do have another word for ‘sea’ in german and that’s “meer” (like in “mittelmeer” – mediterranean sea). and as far as i know “meer” is the dutch word for lake again 🙂
Thank you! 🙂
I skipped this one in my post, to make it less complicated 🙂