Usage Note
Zunge is the tongue, the organ of taste and speech. It appears in many idioms, such as es liegt mir auf der Zunge (it's on the tip of my tongue) and eine scharfe Zunge haben (to be sharp-tongued).
Examples
"Die Zunge nimmt süß und bitter wahr."
Natural Translation
The tongue perceives sweet and bitter.
Literal Translation
The tongue takes sweet and bitter perceives.
Related Words
- Akkommodation accommodation (focusing adjustment of the eye lens)
- Anosmie anosmia, loss of smell
- Blick look
- Bogengang semicircular canal (inner ear)
- Brennen burning sensation
- Dunkeladaptation dark adaptation (eye adjustment from light to darkness)
- Dämmerungssehen twilight vision, scotopic vision
- Eigengeruch body odour; characteristic personal scent
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