1. Trimming: remove the coarse connective tissue sheath covering the goose skirt leaving the goose skirt intact.

Zurichtung: Dem Bauchlappen aufliegendes grobes Bindegewebe entfernen; Bauchlappen dabei intakt lassen.

2. (young) goose or gosling: bird in which the tip of the sternum is flexible (not ossified).

Frühmastgans/(Junge) Gans/Jungmastgans: Tier mit biegsamem (nicht verknöchertem) Brustbeinfortsatz.

3. young) goose or gosling: bird in which the tip of the sternum is flexible (not ossified

Frühmastgans/(Junge) Gans/Jungmastgans: Tier mit biegsamem (nicht verknöchertem) Brustbeinfortsatz

4. In one instance, a goose crashed through an airplane cockpit window and blinded the captain in one eye.

In einem Fall zertrümmerte eine Gans das Cockpitfenster, was zur Folge hatte, daß der Kapitän auf einem Auge blind wurde.

5. We must distinguish it clearly from other forms of gradation which developed later, such as Germanic umlaut (man/men, goose/geese, long/length, think/thought) or the results of English word-stress patterns (man/woman, photograph/photography). Confusingly, in some contexts, the terms 'ablaut', 'vowel gradation', 'apophony' and 'vowel alternation' may be heard used synonymously, especially in synchronic comparisons, but historical linguists prefer to keep 'ablaut' for the specific Indo-European phenomenon, which is the meaning intended by the linguists who first coined the word.

Ein schwaches Verb ist z.B. loben, der Stammvokal ändert sich bei der Vergangenheitsbildung nicht: loben, lobte, gelobt.