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Kuriosum

In German

Kuriosum

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Don't Get Confused!

Looks like
curiosity
In English means: "a strong desire to know or learn something; a strange or unusual object or fact"
Actually means
Kuriosum
curiosity, oddity, peculiar item
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Memory Tip
A German 'Kuriosum' is the *object* of 'curiosity', an 'oddity'. English 'curiosity' can also mean the *desire* to know. Think 'Kuriosum' is the 'curious item', not the 'curious feeling'.

Example Sentences

1

Dieses alte Manuskript ist ein echtes Kuriosum der Literaturgeschichte.

This old manuscript is a real curiosity of literary history.

2

Die Entdeckung war ein wissenschaftliches Kuriosum.

The discovery was a scientific oddity.

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