German and Yiddish

German

German noun - A person of German nationality.
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Synonyms for German

Yiddish and German are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Yiddish" with "German", this nouns are similar.

Yiddish

Yiddish noun - A dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script.
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Synonyms for Yiddish

German and Yiddish are semantically related. You can use "German" instead a noun "Yiddish".

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  • Film / Marathon Man Bilingual Bonus: The car chase scene in the beginning, with brilliant insults in German and Yiddish being exchanged.
  • And then there are Jewish communities in Germany, where most people are Russian and have either Russian or western sounding names, with some Israeli, Biblical, German and Yiddish names thrown into the mix.
  • A few Romani words entered the German language via the Rotwelsch cant mentioned above in the section on Yiddish.
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