Clothes and what you carry

Two more garments

die Socke, -nthe sockMeine *Socken sind nass.*
die Krawatte, -nthe tieEr trägt eine *Krawatte.*

die Socke is almost always plural in practice — you own them in pairs — but it is a perfectly ordinary singular noun when you lose one.

My socks are wet.
Meine Socken sind nass.

das Portemonnaie

Borrowed straight from French and still spelled that way, though you will also see the Germanised das Portmonee. It is the thing you keep money in; die Tasche (L11) is the bag you keep the Portemonnaie in.

Weight, and the pound that is not a pound

das Gewicht is weight in general. das Pfund is 500 grams exactly — half a kilo — and it is still the everyday unit at a German market counter. It is NOT the British pound, and after a number it stays singular: zwei *Pfund Tomaten, never *zwei Pfunde.

Ich möchte ein Pfund Kaffee.

I would like a pound of coffee.
Ich möchte ein Pfund Kaffee.

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