Must-Know German Clothing Vocabulary

Where am I right now I'm in a clothing store Clothes are garments But actually Kleid can also mean a dress And the shop is the store But we have other ways of expressing it For instance in everyday speech Casually we might say something like clothing store Clothing store Klamotten means clothes Laden means shop Today I'll show you all the essential words for shopping for clothes Clothes or outfits in Germany Let's grab it Here we have it first What is this So when I say it always keep the article in mind Please remember the item That is the dress A dress The dress And what color is the dress Which color does it have It is white And this is a white dress What do we have Ah this one This is still good What is this This is a blouse The blouse Yes it's feminine And what color Which color White Here oh this one's still good What's this First in general In general What is this That's a pair of pants The pants Yes and in German it's singular I know in English you say trousers or pants because they have two legs But in German it's one object So we just say die Hose But the plural would be die Hosen Now I have two pairs of pants in my hand And this is a cotton pants You see the fabric It' s like cotton It's soft So this is a cotton pants And what color are these pants Black That's a black pair of pants Good next Here we have a top The top It's actually from English but we also say it in German A black top And for the feet what do we have here First off what are these things I'm wearing They're shoes The shoes In the singular what is the singular form The shoe The shoe And these are sneakers Sneakers are you know the sporty ones But here we have they're not really shoes Those are boots Boots And those are black boots What is the singular of boots The boot That's also a masculine noun And here we have even more clothes More Clothes More clothing Clothing is also a word You could also say clothing store or apparel store for example Uh what's that called How do you refer to that It's a jacket The jacket And what color is the jacket I think it's black or dark blue I think it's black Also this is a jacket and it has no hood This is a hood The hood But this jacket has no hood Okay And one more important thing We saw a pair of pants over there And what is that That's a jeans or denim pants Nice pants And what do you see here What is this in German This is a bag The bag Okay A bag is also what you call a bag But this here is also a bag It's the pocket in the pants One more thing Oh this one is also very important It's a sweater Sweater The sweater What color is this sweater I'd say brown or beige That's the sweater So and here we sometimes also say knit sweater Since this is knitted we call it a knit sweater Yes it's kind of like when you pull something over your head in English I know you call it a sweatshirt but in German we actually use an English word—der Pullover It's kind of funny but anyway ah one more thing A key vocabulary word What do you call it when something is long or short It's long or something else In the blouse for example it was short That means long-sleeved A long sleeve The sleeve is that And that is long-sleeved Or short-sleeved The arm Poorly dressed Okay that's still important And then we have this here—it's a vest The vest And this vest has no sleeves at all Do you see that And what's this pattern called What is this pattern called Do you see that It's checked Checked For instance people sometimes say this about Germans They say Germans are so petty They're very petty Very rigid And this is a coat The coat It's like a jacket but longer See This coat reaches below the hips This is my hip And this coat is beautifully long extending past my hip And what's this called here This is a belt The belt is like the belt Normally they are separate I also have a belt Do you see it That is the belt And this coat also has a belt And this thing here what's it called The button For instance you could say oh no I've lost my button But a button is also something you can press Sometimes there 's a small thing and you can say you need to press the button That's the same Button button And here we have a skirt The skirt Do you see And this skirt—what color did we already have Black And here it also has a bit of white What's that called in German That's a shirt The shirt And what color is this shirt What color is it It's blue Or more precisely light blue And do you remember what this pattern is called Do you remember What is this pattern called This pattern It's checked Small small checkered And here we have another T-shirt As it's written in English T-shirt So we don't say T-shirt or anything like that in German The T in German is normally pronounced like T No we say T-shirt And what color is the T-shirt Which color does it have We say pink Rosa or pink So do you remember Do you remember What is this called in German The pocket in German What is this called in German This is a pocket And this is a handbag Some people just call it a bag My bag Oh my beautiful bag Or a handbag But there's also for example a sports bag and so on Yes these are all bags So and this here is a chain The chain And it's made of gold And this is a necklace This is my neck And this chain goes around the neck And here this is a ring Specifically a finger ring for the finger There's also an earring It goes around the ear That's an earring for the ear I have an ear stud That's not a ring But you know what I mean These earrings go around the ear So I was successful shopping I spent a lot of money I bought a sweater a T-shirt and a dress Let me know in the comments what you've learned today A conversation while shopping for clothes And here you'll find some essential phrases for shopping for clothes or clothing Got it Thank you and goodbye