Wednesday, 21 October 2009

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Zee Germans are coming!


The Hallowedding is as close today as it has ever felt; my friend is flying in from Germany for the wedding and she arrives today with her boyfriend! In honor of this most welcomed visit, I give you graveyard German vocabulary from About.com! Plus, an online scavenger hunt for famous German's resting places.

I wish it could be Halloween vocabulary, but the Germans don't really celebrate Halloween -- we really should fix that.


auf dem Friedhofat the cemetery

die Asche (no pl. in this sense) ashes, cremains (singular in German)
Seine Asche liegt in Berlin. His ashes are in Berlin.

die Beerdigung (-en) burial, funeral
das Begräbnis (-se) burial, funeral
die Bestattung (-en) burial, funeral
die Seebestattung burial at sea

das Denkmal (-mäler) monument, memorial

das Ehrengrab (-gräber) memorial grave/tomb
einäschern to cremate
die Einäscherung cremation
das Epitaph (-e) epitaph

der Frieden peace
Ruhe in Frieden rest in peace
der Friedhof (-höfe) cemetery
die Friedhofskapelle cemetery chapel
der städtische Friedhof city/municipal cemetery
der Zentralfriedhof (-höfe) central cemetery

geboren born
die Gedenkstätte (-n) memorial, place of remembrance
gefallen fallen (killed in battle)
gestorben died
das Grab (Gräber) grave, tomb
die Grabinschrift (-en) gravestone inscription, epitaph
das Grabmal (-male or -mäler) grave marker, gravestone; monument, tomb
die Grabnische (-n) burial niche
die Grabstätte (-n) burial place
der Grabstein (-e) gravestone, tombstone
die Grabstelle (-n) grave, tomb; burial place


Grabinschrift: Hier ruhen meine Gebeine, ich wollt' es wären Deine.


die Inschrift (-en) inscription (on gravestone, etc.)

die Kerze (-n) candle
die Kremation cremation
das Krematorium crematorium, crematory
das Kreuz (-e) cross

das Mausoleum (Mausoleen) mausoleum

die Persönlichkeit (-en) person, personality

R.I.P. requiescat in pace (Latin), Ruhe in Frieden, rest in peace
die Ruhe rest
die ewige Ruhe eternal rest
ruhen to rest
Hier ruht... Here rests...
die Ruhestätte (-n) resting place, burial place

die Säule (-n) column, pillar
schlafen to sleep
Hier schläft ewig... Here sleeps __ for eternity.

die Toten the dead (pl.)

die Überreste (pl.) remains
sterbliche Überreste mortal remains
die Urne (-n) urn (for cremains)

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