What does “Augenringe” mean in German?

Eine Woche auf dem Bauernhof in der Schweiz

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B1 German listening practice · Swiss German · Picked for people who know some

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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.

How common are the words?

How common are the words in this B1 German listening practice video?

86.4%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common German words
Most of the words in this video are common German words.

How common in written German

80.5%
Top 1,000
86.4%
Top 2,000
95.9%
Top 5,000

How common in spoken German

90.2%
Top 1,000
96.1%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Words for talking
This video uses words people often say in German.

Harder words in this video

These words are harder than B1. Here is what they mean.

glacé
3×
Not in top 5,000
ice cream (Swiss German)
gemolken
2×
Not in top 5,000
milked (past participle of to milk)
aggregat
1×
Not in top 5,000
unit; aggregate; set of components
arbeitsalltag
1×
Not in top 5,000
daily work routine
augenringe
1×
Not in top 5,000
dark circles under the eyes

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-DE 2011 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.

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