Two more garments
| die Socke, -n | the sock | Meine *Socken sind nass.* |
| die Krawatte, -n | the tie | Er 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.
| I have my wallet in my bag. | Ich habe mein Portemonnaie in der Tasche. |
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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