In high school, I took French classes, but my friends’ introductory German textbook had such vocabulary words (yes, they needed to memorize the proper spelling and gender of these to prepare for vocabulary quizzes, and invent sentences where the words would be appropriate in context) as:
“Feeling that the end of the world is near”, “kite flying festival”, “commemorative coin with Maria Theresa’s face on it”, “ship from the Hanseatic League”, and “cemetary for homeless, nameless people”.
These are on a whole different scale from “shoebox” or “raincoat”.
(Personally I suspect that the textbook authors were just trolling everyone.)
“Feeling that the end of the world is near”, “kite flying festival”, “commemorative coin with Maria Theresa’s face on it”, “ship from the Hanseatic League”, and “cemetary for homeless, nameless people”.
These are on a whole different scale from “shoebox” or “raincoat”.
(Personally I suspect that the textbook authors were just trolling everyone.)