Das Licht, das vom Mond kommt.
The light that comes from the moon.
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Sie gingen im Mondlicht nach Hause. — They walked home by moonlight.
Am Wochenende arbeitet sie nebenher als Kellnerin. — She moonlights as a server on weekends.
Mondlicht fiel durch das offene Fenster. — Moonlight came through the open window.
Arbeitest du neben deiner Vollzeitstelle noch nebenher? — Do you moonlight in addition to your full-time job?
Ist genug Mondlicht da, um die Karte zu lesen? — Is there enough moonlight to read the map?
Ich glaube, er will sich etwas dazuverdienen. — I think he wants to moonlight for some extra cash.
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Download the app for free German vocabulary testMondlicht is the light only. German has no verb built on it, so the English sense of moonlighting — working a second job on the quiet — has to be said another way: schwarzarbeiten, “to work black”, or nebenher arbeiten.
That colour metaphor runs deep in German. Schwarzarbeit is undeclared work, Schwarzfahren is riding without a ticket, Schwarzmarkt the black market. Where English reaches for the moon, German reaches for the dark.
Mondschein moonlight
More common than Mondlicht in ordinary German, and the word in the Mondscheinsonate.
Schwarzarbeit undeclared work
What English calls moonlighting when it is off the books. German uses black, not the moon.
Mond moon
And in slang, hinter dem Mond leben means to be behind the times.
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