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1912 illustration. In English-speaking countries, the common verbal response to another person's sneeze is "(God) bless you", or less commonly in the United States and Canada, "Gesundheit", the German word for health (and the response to sneezing in German-speaking countries).
In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...
Dummkopf, literally "stupid head"; a stupid, ignorant person, similar to "numbskull" in English; Fest, festival; Fingerspitzengefühl (literally "finger-tip feeling", in German used to mean "empathy", "sensitivity" or "tact") Gemütlichkeit, coziness; Gesundheit, literally health; an exclamation used in place of "bless you!" after someone has ...
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Gesundheit (German for health ) may refer to: A response to sneezing; Gesundheit!
Wrist-worn devices can predict imminent inflammatory and symptomatic inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups as far in advance as 7 weeks, a study suggests.
Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.
In some dialects of French, the English term "weekend" becomes la fin de semaine ("the end of week"), a calque, but in some it is left untranslated as le week-end, a loanword. French cor anglais (literally English horn ) is a near-calque of English French horn .
Even English-language dialogue containing these words can appear on Quebec French-language television without bleeping. For example, in 2003, when punks rioted in Montreal because a concert by the band The Exploited had been cancelled, TV news reporters solemnly read out a few lyrics and song titles from their album Fuck the System .