German - English
campen - to camp
das Ende - the end
Freitag - Friday (Fr i a in both words and the final letters g and y both have tails)
Hilfe - help (consonants H and l in both languages)
Mann - man
Park - park (noun, as shown by the capital initial letter, not the verb)
perfekt - perfect
Poster - poster (the nouns in German have capital initial letters)
Problem - problem (das Problem, the problem)
Schere - scissors (looks like shears, both German Schere and English scissors contain the initial letter s and the letters c and r)
schneiden - to cut (Years ago my family living in Edgware in north west London used to know a lady called Mrs Schneider. It was a surname for Germans including Ashkenazi Jews who were tailors or occasionally wood cutters)
Wald - forest (I used to know a family called Waldman)
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