Also means
image
Usage Note
Bild is a picture, photo, or painting, and the final 'd' is devoiced to a 't' sound. It powers compounds like Bildschirm ('screen') and the idiom sich ein Bild machen ('to form an impression'); the plural is irregular: Bilder.
Examples
"Das Bild hängt an der Wand."
Natural Translation
The picture hangs on the wall.
Literal Translation
The picture hangs on the wall.
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Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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