Back again, with new dose of German :)
The German word of the day is:
der Tisch (pronounced like: fish but with t – tish)
Tisch is where your dish is!
Ein Tisch is a table unless table is used in sense of a listing of some sort. For those cases table translates to eine Tabelle or eine Liste.
Ein Tisch is a table unless table is used in sense of a listing of some sort. For those cases table translates to eine Tabelle or eine Liste.
The word Tisch evolved from the Latin discus or the Greek diskos respectively.
These are obviously also the origins of the word disc and the common attributes of Tisch and disc could be summarized as : – is flat, horizontal and you can put stuff on top of it (Warning: putting stuff on top of your disc physically might destroy it – yet you put stuff on it in some way :) )
Given the ancestor diskus, little imagination is necessary to draw a connection to the English word desk, which is a certain type of table.
These are obviously also the origins of the word disc and the common attributes of Tisch and disc could be summarized as : – is flat, horizontal and you can put stuff on top of it (Warning: putting stuff on top of your disc physically might destroy it – yet you put stuff on it in some way :) )
Given the ancestor diskus, little imagination is necessary to draw a connection to the English word desk, which is a certain type of table.
As it is the most general term for … well tables… you can find loads of compounds with containing Tisch. Ein Schreibtisch is a table used for writing and as such is the English desk. Ein
A special kind of Tisch is der Nachtisch. Now you are going to say… “yeah, I know, that is the little piece of furniture next to my bed”
but that was the Nacht-tisch as opposed to Nach-tisch. Ein Nachtisch is a dessert. The word nach is a preposition so, as the advanced learners of you already might happily anticipate, it has three kind of contradictory meanings. It means after in sense of ordering things in time. Example:
Der Frühling kommt nach dem Winter.
So in Nach-tisch the Tisch stands for the main dish and the nach indicates that the main dish has been eaten. So if you need something sweet after the meal you may aks:
Gibt es einen Nachtisch?
You can also use the word das Desert which means the same but you will have to pronounce it in a French way… oh sorry I meant a Germanized French way of course.
Some more examples of compounds with Tisch are Tischbein (the leg of the table), Tischtennis (table tennis), Tischdecke (table cloth) and many many more.
So ein Tisch is a table but as it seems it has the same origins as desk. A shift in meaning has taken place. But does table have a German cousin?
Yes it does and the cousin is die Tafel, which can be a large table at a banquet, a blackboard or a bar of chocolate.
Yes it does and the cousin is die Tafel, which can be a large table at a banquet, a blackboard or a bar of chocolate.
So to wrap this up here is that little bit of grammar you have all been waiting for.
The plural of Tisch is die Tische. You don’t need to add any extra letters for case 3 and 4 except for case 3 in plural where you have to add an extra-n.
Ich träume von den billigen IKEA-Tischen. (I dream of cheap IKEA-tables)
That was the word of the day for today. Hope you enjoyed it and see you next time.
Special thanks to yourdailygerman :)
Take care,
Bryvus
Take care,
Bryvus
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