Thread: German Book Club Selection for August
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Old 08-09-2014, 01:50 PM   #3
Andrew H.
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>(Wow! German packs a lot of meaning into a fairly short word.)

Not really, it just looks that way - "Beet" is related to bed (as in "flower bed"); "Gurke" just means "Cucumber", so Gurkenbeet just means Cucumber Patch.
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