Another video in the series of vocabulary videos. My topic is sand, compound nouns around sand and some figurative expressions we often use in German that include the word sand.

Vokabelliste:

• der Sand – sand
• sandig – sandy
• das Sandkorn, die Sandkörner – sand grain
• feinkörnig – fine-grained
• grobkörnig – coarse-grained
• das Sandpapier – sandpaper
• die Sandburg – sand castle
• der Sandkasten / die Sandkiste – sandbox
• der Sandkuchen – sandcake
• der Sandsturm – sandstorm
• das Sandmännchen – sandman
• Sand im Getriebe haben. – spanner in the works
• Im Sand verlaufen. – to end in talk

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