Word 1 of 3: Eichhörnchen, squirrel
Eichhörnchen
squirrelnoun
A small animal with a bushy tail that lives in trees and gathers nuts.
matchboxnoun
A small cardboard box that holds matches.
twelfthnoun
One of twelve equal parts of a whole.
Eichhörnchensquirrel
A squirrel is sitting right at the top of the old tree in the garden.
Streichholzschachtelmatchbox
Do you happen to have a matchbox for the candles on the table?
Zwölfteltwelfth
A twelfth of a year is roughly one month long.
Both ch's are the soft ich sound, including the one after Eich-; the h between them is pronounced too.
nounA small animal with a bushy tail that lives in trees and gathers nuts.
- 1Im Garten sitzt ein Eichhörnchen ganz oben auf dem alten Baum.A squirrel is sitting right at the top of the old tree in the garden.