Riddles
What goes up and never comes down?
Your age
wind, sun water are ... energy ...
renewable energy sources
mitfühlend
compassionate
uncertain
up in the air
signal words: last....., .....ago, in 1924
simple past
What runs, but never walks, often murmurs – never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?
A river
opposite of "to clean"
to pollute
despair
Verzweiflung
ein Tropfen auf den heißen Stein
a drop in the ocean
I ________ (not, to do) my homework, yet.
haven´t done
What starts with the letter P, ends with the letter E and contains thousands of letters?
Post Office
das Aussterben/Artensterben
extinction
the feeling of not belonging to a group/culture (anymore)
alienation
a small part of something much larger
(just) the tip of the iceberg
I ________ (to read) my book when my sister threw a banana at me.
was reading
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
gefährden
to endanger/ to threaten
synonym for "to limit / to reduce"
to curb
to assimilate/ to adapt (in/to a situation)
to go with the flow
Nearly everybody _______ (to move) away before they returned to their home country.
had moved
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
A mushroom
verdächtig, auffällig
suspicious
synonym for "polite"
courteous
auf dem Holzweg sein
to bark up the wrong tree
I would have called you sooner if I ________________
(to inform).
had been informed