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Gender of German nouns:
{m} = der, {f} = die, {n} = das, {pl} = die

	German	English
	Das sind Peanuts.; Das ist ein Klacks/eine Lappalie (im Vergleich zu ...).	That's small beer [Br.] / potatoes [Am.] (compared to ...).
	Die Versicherungsprämie ist ein Klacks gegenüber dem, was wir zahlen müssten, wenn das Haus abbrennt.	The insurance premium is small beer/potatoes compared to what we'd have to pay if the house burnt down.
The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute. Sentences marked by [EU] derived from DGT Multilingual Translation Memory. The European Commission retains ownership of the copyright in the original data.