Dish or plate? English vocabulary and prototype theory 

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Simple English Videos A! Are you married? R u husbandn wife? Well i'm learning german as well... The german has two words in this case as well! But i've forgotten one of them... Plate is (der) teller.... Not schlüßel because it's key in english! The article is also der...

Hallo there @@akoska! ^_^ I'm from Germany and we say "Teller" for "plate" and "Schüssel" for "bowl". And you're right! ♥ With a "Schlüssel" (not a "Schüssel" ^_^) we open and lock our doors. German seems to be tough to learn! Keep going! ♥

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When we're describing objects, I think you're right Aurum. But over at the ngram viewer it looks like plate is more frequent: books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=plate%2Cdish&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cplate%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cdish%3B%2Cc0

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they are just used in different times like, will you buy another table? will you get the other one? or listen to this, is the another one better? is other one better? see, they just have to be used differently, even i struggled thinking of the sentences

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Simple English Videos yeah I just go by what I call it instead of confusing myself 1. Cup 2. Cup 3. Cup 4. Cup 5. Bowl 6. Dish 7. Cup 8. Dish

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