Common German words that are used regularly by speakers of American English. Many German words used in the American language were adopted because of interacting with immigrants from Germany. As with many other words in the English language, these words expanded the

German Words Now Used as English Words
1. Angst-anxiety or dread
2. Bagel-round breakfast roll
3. Blitz-done with intensity, swiftness, and abundance
4. Bratwurst-German sausage
5. Cobalt-shade of blue
6. Cringle-wrinkled or folded
7. Delicatessen-food shop specializing in quick foods
8. Doppelganger-look-alike
9. Feldspar-mineral
10. Gestapo-German police
11. Hamster-rodent-like pet
12. Knapsack-bag carried on the back
13. Liverwurst-liverlike
14. Noodle-type of stringy pasta
15. Poltergeist-a ghostly apparition
16. Plunder-to steal
17. Sauerkraut-sour shredded cabbage
18. Schnapps-a drink
19. Seltzer-carbonated water
20. Streusel-type of cake covered in a crunchy topping
21. Waltz-a couple’s dance
22. Zeppelin-a blimp

German immigrants have migrated to the US for decades, so much so that German ancestry is the largest nationality (about 44.2 million) of all reported nationalities in America. It’s no wonder we can all speak German.