Fünf Kleidungsstücke nennen: einfaches Vokabelspiel
A1 German listening practice · German · Curated for beginners
Why is “Hose” singular in German?
In English, pants and trousers are grammatically plural — “my pants are.” German sees one garment: die Hose ist. You buy eine Hose, wear it in the singular, and only say Hosen when several are actually in the closet. The clip’s clothing five — T-Shirt, Hose, Kleid, Mantel, Socken — hides this trap in plain sight.
The same singular logic applies to die Brille (glasses) and die Schere (scissors): the things English insists come “in pairs” are single objects in German. So “Where are my glasses?” becomes Wo ist meine Brille? — singular verb and all. Flip that once in your head and three classic English-speaker mistakes disappear at the same time.
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-DE 2011 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.