    Login / Register Newsletter LAROUSSE  FRENCH LANGUAGE BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES TRANSLATOR CONJUGATOR ENCYCLOPEDIA FOOD FORUM GAMES BOOKS Home > bilingual dictionaries > English-German ENGLISH GERMAN  GERMAN ENGLISH  ENGLISH-GERMAN DICTIONARY A dictionary of 250,000 words and expressions. TO RESEARCH   DIFFICULTY ordinär The German adjective ordinär is a false friend, as its primary meaning in English is vulgar or crude. Sein Benehmen gestern war ganz ordinär might therefore be translated as His behavior yesterday was very vulgar . The English adjective ordinary, however, would usually be translated by gewöhnlich or normal , so This is no ordinary computer would be rendered as Dies ist kein gewöhnlicher Computer . LEARN MORE   QUIZ Complete the sequence with the appropriate proposition. I'd rather… inside than stay outside. you to come you came you come TO VALIDATE  CULTURAL NOTICE African American Die meisten Amerikaner afrikanischer Herkunft kamen ab dem 16. Jh. als Sklaven nach Amerika. Die Sklaverei wurde 1865 nach dem Sieg der Nordstaaten im Sezessionskrieg abgeschafft, volle Gleichberechtigung erhielten die heute offiziell als African Americans bezeichneten US-Bürger aber erst 1964 mit dem Civil Rights Act . LEARN MORE  CONVERSATION GUIDES  English Spanish German Italian Chinese Japanese Portuguese  TOOLS  CONJUGATOR   GAMES  ENGLISH LESSON  GERMAN COURSES  Mobile applications Index Legal notices and credits CGU Confidentiality charter Cookies Contact © Larousse Continue without accepting optional cookies> Respect for your privacy is our priority Our organization and its partners store and / or access information on your device, such as unique cookie IDs to process personal data. You can accept or manage your choices by clicking below, including your right to object if using a legitimate interest, or at any time on the privacy policy page. These preferences will be reported to our partners and will not affect browsing data. How are your data used? Actively analyze the characteristics of the terminal for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalized advertisements. Measure the performance of advertisements / advertisements. Create a personalized advertising profile. Measure the performance of the content. Develop and improve products. Store and / or access information stored on a terminal. Select personalized content. Select standard advertisements. Create a profile to display personalized content. Use market research to generate audience data. Site developed by internal Larousse teams and hosted in Europe. List of our partners I accept Parameterize