Similar words
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English
cold
eiskalt is cold taken to an extreme -- ice-cold -- while cold covers the whole range from mildly chilly to freezing.
French
froid
eiskalt intensifies plain coldness to 'ice-cold', whereas froid is the neutral, general word for cold.
Practice
1 What does eiskalt mean?
ice-cold
2 Fill the gap: Das Wasser im See war ___.
Full sentence: Das Wasser im See war eiskalt. (The water in the lake was ice-cold.)
3 Which fingerprint chart matches eiskalt?
eiskalt: neutral register, common frequency, general domain, neutral connotation.