• german music (trying my best to make gpop happen), including DACH (Deutschland/Germany 🇩🇪, Austria/Österreich 🇦🇹, Confoederatio Helvetica/Schweiz/Switzerland 🇨🇭)
• german artists, including DACH and english music
• german stuff
• feel free to send in your favorite artists... but they gotta be DACH/make music in german/etc

• Christmas: noël (m), christmas eve: le réveilllon 
• Merry christmas: joyeux noël
• Santa: le père noël, the north pole: le pôle nord
• Reindeer: un renne , elf: un elfe 
• December: décembre, winter: l’hiver
• Christmas break: les vacances d’hiver (f) 
• Snow: la neige, snowball: une boule de neige
• Snowman: un bonhomme de neige, a carrot: une carotte
• A scarf: une écharpe, gloves: des gants (m)
• Socks: des chaussettes (f), a beanie: un bonnet 
• A (warm) coat: un (gros) manteau, sleigh: une luge 
• To decorate: décorer, christmas tree: le sapin de noël
• Pine needle: une aiguille de pin, under the tree: sous le sapin 
• A garland: une guirlande, a bauble: une boule 
• Wreath: une couronne, fairy lights: une guirlande électrique 

GIF by itschristmastimee

• An advent calendar: un calendrier de l’avent
• Mistletoe: le gui, a star: une étoile, an angel: un ange
• A christmas hat: un bonnet de père noël
• Christmas spirit: l’esprit de noël 
• Church: l’église, midnight mass: la messe de minuit 
• A nativity scene: une crèche, birth: la naissance 
• Carols: les chants de noël
• To sing: chanter, christmas market: le marché de noël 
• Chimney: la cheminée 
• Christmas stocking: une chaussette de noël 
• A gift: un cadeau, a toy: un jouet
• Nice: sage, naughty: pas sage, vilain-e
• To wrap: emballer, wrapping paper: du papier cadeau, ribbon: un ruban, a card: une carte, a candle: une bougie 
• A christmas movie: un film de noël, family: la famille 
• To cook: cuisiner/faire la cuisine, to bake: faire de la pâtisserie 
• The turkey: la dinde, cake: un gâteau, mulled win: le vin chaud, pie: une tarte (+ à la/au(x)), yule log: la bûche de noël, candy cane: un sucre d’orge, foie gras: le foie gras (d’oie/de canard)
• Hot chocolate: un chocolat chaud 

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a messy and incomplete list

• nachvollziehen (v.) -- to understand, but less empathetic. i.e. i see the steps that brought you to that conclusion, but i don't understand you.
• doch (interj.) -- you're wrong and really it's the opposite of what you said. often said with a healthy dose of sass. i.e. "this isn't a good movie." "doch. (it is)"
• frech (adj.) -- somewhere between naughty and sassy and silly. when you're being a bit of a brat, you're being frech.
• dreist (adj.) -- audacious, but far more colloquial. when you have the goddamn audacity, you are dreist. i.e. to park that far over the line is dreist as hell
• heimat (n.) -- home, but stronger. a home is wherever you have built a life, but heimat is where your roots are. heimat is where you feel pangs of nostalgia when you go to visit your family for christmas and see the shop at the corner.
• weltschmerz (n.) -- literally 'world-pain'. the world sucks and sometimes you just sit and feel the pain of it all. that's weltschmerz.
• existenzberechtigung (n.) -- the right to exist, often in a comedic context. i.e. pineapple on pizza has absolutely no existenzberechtigung.
• fernweh (n.) -- literally 'far-ache'. the opposite of homesickness, the desire to go far away. i guess wanderlust is similar, but that is also a german word, and this is more painful and visceral
• schweigen (v./n.) -- the act of not speaking. silence, but more deliberate. the palpable feeling that people are withholding their voice.
• verschlimmbesserung (n.) -- when an update with the intention of making something better actually just made it worse. looking at you @staff