Eine Woche auf dem Bauernhof in der Schweiz

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B1 German listening practice · Swiss German · Curated for intermediate learners

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What does “Augenringe” mean in German?

die Augenringe
German face-vocab compound
dark circles under your eyes; literally “eye rings”

Quarter past five on a Swiss farm, 34 cows waiting in the milking parlor, and the narrator already reports mega Augenringe — “eye rings,” the dark circles under your eyes. German just describes what it sees: rings around the eyes. It’s the standard everyday word after any short night — Ich habe voll die Augenringe — and farm mornings manufacture them reliably.

German builds face vocabulary with the same directness: Lachfalten (“laugh wrinkles” — crow’s feet), Stirnfalten (forehead lines), Tränensäcke (“tear sacks” — bags under the eyes). The clip is Swiss German, so listen for the local melody around the standard word — and for mega, the Swiss-flavored intensifier glued onto everything here, from the Augenringe to the megafeine farm food.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this B1 German listening practice listening practice?

89.1%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common German words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday German.

General German frequency

83.6%
Top 1,000
89.1%
Top 2,000
94.5%
Top 5,000

Spoken German frequency

91.2%
Top 1,000
95.6%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-German data than in general usage, so it may feel closer to everyday conversation.

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s B1 level.

gemolken
Rare / outside top 5,000
milked
augenringe
Rare / outside top 5,000
dark circles under eyes
garrig
Rare / outside top 5,000
(fragment)
hausgemachte
Rare / outside top 5,000
homemade
herlieberg
Rare / outside top 5,000
(fragment)

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-DE 2011 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

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