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Kuriosum
In German
Kuriosum
koo-ree-OH-zoom
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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.