According to the Webster's 17th edition of the dictionary, the word kindergarten comes from the German language. The word kinder means children and the garten means garden. In English, this translates into garden of children.
It is a common construction in German to join simple words together to express a more complex idea.
It comes from Germany. Kinder means children and garten means garden. In English this means a garden of children
The word "kindergarten" comes from the German language. It translates to "children's garden" in English.
Some English words that come from German include "kindergarten," "angst," "doppelganger," and "wanderlust."
Kinderdagverblijf is Dutch for Kindergarten. In the Netherlands children of up to four years of age go to Kinderdagverblift. When they are four they go to a primary school.
Kindergarten came from Germany and in the United States, German immigrants in Wisconsin started the custom here.
No; it was in the German language. The first kindergarten in the United States seems to have been one in Watertown, Wisconsin, in 1856. It was conducted in German because the founder of the "kindergarten movement," Friedrich Froebel, was from Germany and the first women he trained to teach kindergarten also spoke German (including Margarethe Meyer-Shurz, a German woman who came to America and began the kindergarten class in Wisconsin). The first English-language kindergarten was operated in Boston, beginning in 1860, by Elizabeth Peabody.
It's like a garden of kids... Kindergarden! It's kindergarten. The word is taken directly from the German language into English. It literally means children's garden. From kinder meaning children (plural of kind--child) and garten meaning garden.
Assuming you mean kindergaRten, it comes from German. Literal explanation: Kinder = children Garten = garden Kindergarten = children's garden
The language was English, because it was located in America. However, in the first Kindergarten, it was german. This is because it is made up of two german words, Kinder and Garten. Because the man who first created these described children as plants and teachers as gardeners, the term kindergarten emerged, kinder meaning child and garten meaning garden.
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It is German. Kinder=child garten =garden
It is a German word, actually meaning 'children's garden'.
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