German + English
German is closer to your English than it looks.
Thousands of German words have an English sibling hiding under a sound change: Wasser and water, danke and thank. Polygelato shows them side by side, traces the words you save to their roots, and brings them back in study.
Free to start: five languages and 100 lookups a month. Repeats from the shared cache are free.
water
English- Deutsch
das Wasser
- Nederlands
het water
- Svenska
vatten
- Português
a água
Roots they share
dankethank
← Proto-Germanic *þankōną
The same verb in two sound systems; English kept the th, German turned it into d.
das Wasserwater
← Proto-Germanic *watōr
German shifted t to ss after a vowel, the change that also gives essen beside eat.
And the one that trips everyone
das Giftgift
German Gift means poison. Both come from a Germanic word for a giving; the languages kept different senses of it.
Look it up, keep it, and review it from one language into the other.
Saved words build your own wordbank, and spaced repetition brings them back at the right time — including cards that ask in one of your languages and answer in another. Study is free on every plan.