List of 100+ Vegetables in German

Let us start off in the absolute beginning. Close your eyes… You are a baby…. What are the first few words that you speak? You start saying words you like which are basically all the food pieces that you eat. And babies are fed all the vegetables. This is true for a German speaking child as well. For the German child, it formulates nothing but the absolute basics of List of Vegetables in German including the Parts of the room in German.

Now let us skip ahead and go to school… I’m sure in school, we would have learnt about the vocabulary list of Vegetables. Now what about a child studying in German? Would it not be the case that they learn about the list of Vegetables in German and the list of beans in German?

One of the “most” common topics in German A1 is learning the vocabulary for how to describe what one ate and this always involves fruits and vegetables. We have already covered list of fruits, berries and nuts in another post. In this post, we will be learning about a comprehensive list of vegetables in German with tons and tons of examples

Topics:

1. How to say Vegetables in German?
2. Complete List of Vegetables in German?
3. Common supermarket vegetables in German
4. Beans and lentils in German?
5. Leafy vegetables in German?
6. Parts of a plant in German?

How do you say “Vegetable” in German?

• SINGULAR: The German translation for “The vegetable” is “das Gemüse”
  • EXAMPLE: “Potato is a vegetable.” à Kartoffel ist ein Gemüse.
• PLURAL: The German word for “The Vegetables” is “das Gemüse” (the same… THANKFULLY!!!!)
  • EXAMPLE: “I like vegetables.” à ich mag Gemüse.

Root Vegetables in German

Who doesn’t like a nice potato or an onion based dish. If you ask me (a true potato lover that I am) it’s nigh impossible for me to cook without either of the two. Literally speaking, potatoes are like a lifeline to me. Similarly we have a ton of root based vegetables which needs to be memorized in your quest to master the list of German Vegetables.

These are the common root based Vegetables that are found in any German supermarket and thus form an important part of the list of German vegetables. You can now learn the German vocabulary for the list of root based vegetables in German.

Common Vegetables in German

Ok, lets do a bit of role play…. You are in Germany…. You’re in a supermarket trying to pick up some local variety of vegetables to cook and eat.  How do you know which ones you need and which ones you don’t? You need to know the List of Vegetables in German and the list of lentils and beans in German.

Now that you have memorized the long list of German root vegetables, let’s dive into the most common German vegetables that you can see in German supermarkets and consumed by most German households.

Beans and lentils in German

WHOOOHOOO!! You have now memorized the long list of root vegetables in German and the even longer list of common German vegetables. Step 2 of memorizing the list of Vegetables in German is now complete….

Step three will be to memorize the most common list of beans and lentils in German. I understand that lentils and beans strictly don’t fall into the category of list of vegetables in German, buy hey, can you live without them? A ton of German dishes incorporate beans and lentils and you really cannot avoid them. They are common in Indian cuisine, African cuisine, and Chinese cuisine and also in South Asian cuisine.

Thus, lentils and beans are quite common in European cuisine and in fact all over the world. So let’s get digging into the list of beans and lentils in German, a sub part of the list of Vegetables in German and the list of beans in German!!

Leafy vegetables in German

Any dish that you order in Germany will offer you a side of salad. Even a burger will have a leaf of lettuce. You can find hundreds of types of salads across the world. The interesting thing about salad is that you may like one salad leaf and hate another? How do you know which one to ask and which one to not add?

You have to memorize, along with the list of vegetables in German, the German vocabulary list for the different types of German vegetables which can be used for salads.

Parts of a plant in German

I know that this topic is not included into the list of Vegetables in German. Also this is a topic which we have covered as a part of another blog (in the list of fruits in German). However I could not resist including this topic once again since this is one which is super important and highly ignored!!

Do learn and memorize the German vocabulary master word list for the different parts of a plant in German along with your List of Vegetables in German and the list of beans in German.