Some of the expressions are relatively common (e.g., hamburger), but most are comparatively rare. It is distinguished from a calque, or loan translation, where a meaning or idiom from another language is translated into existing words or roots of the host language. A loanword is a word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language without translation. The English language has incorporated various loanwords, terms, phrases, or quotations from the German language.
You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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