German nature and animal vocabulary: 300 words
Animals, weather, plants and the natural world (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese). This page lists 40 of them with their German translations, then lets you practise the full set in either direction with spaced repetition.
English to German: the first 40 words
| English | German | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| animal | Tier | |
| plant | Pflanze | |
| tree | Baum | |
| flower | Blume | |
| grass | Gras | |
| leaf | Blatt | |
| root | Wurzel | |
| stem | Stengel | |
| branch | Ast | |
| trunk | Stamm | |
| bark | Rinde | |
| seed | Samen | |
| soil | Boden | |
| rock | Felsen | A large solid mass of stone; not necessarily small like a pebble. |
| stone | Stein | Can mean a small rock, or the hard pit inside some fruits. |
| mountain | Berg | |
| valley | Tal | |
| hill | Hügel | |
| plain | Ebene | |
| forest | Wald | |
| woodland | Waldgebiet | Similar to forest but often smaller or less dense. |
| meadow | Wiese | |
| field | Feld | |
| garden | Garten | |
| shrub | Strauch | A woody plant smaller than a tree, with multiple stems. |
| bush | Busch | A dense woody plant; similar to shrub but often denser or more tangled. |
| moss | Moos | |
| fern | Farn | |
| cactus | Kaktus | |
| vine | Rebe | |
| weed | Unkraut | An unwanted plant growing where it is not desired. |
| herb | Kraut | A plant used for flavoring food or for medicinal purposes; not the leafy plant itself. |
| fruit | Obst | |
| berry | Beere | |
| nut | Nuss | |
| grain | Getreide | |
| wheat | Weizen | |
| corn | Mais | Tall cereal plant with large seed-heads; not a hard bump on the foot. |
| rice | Reis | |
| potato | Kartoffel |
260 more words in the full “Nature & Animals” library, each aligned across seven languages and scheduled for you by spaced repetition. Add it to your account and start drilling English to German in one click.
What to watch out for in German
- 56 of these 300 words are near-identical in English and German (19%) —
Orange,Wolf,Otter. Those are free; the value of drilling is in the rest. - Accents count. Answers are graded accent-sensitively, so you need
äöüßÄÖÜ— LinguaSwap shows a one-tap keypad for them while you type. - Capitalisation counts. German nouns are capitalised, and answers in German are graded that way —
hausis notHaus. - 87 words carry a usage note in the full library, for the cases where a direct translation would mislead you.
Practise German nature and animal vocabulary
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