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- gantze – all, the whole of ("the gantze mishpoche" = the whole family, etc., cf. German ganz = "whole, all")
- geh gezindt – command; go, be healthy from German Geh gesund. Used as a goodbye (The typical reply is "Gai gezindt.") Usually neutral, but can be used sarcastically to mean "good riddance."
- geh avek – go away. Also pronounced "guy avek", depending on where in Europe you are from. A Litvak pronounces it "guy".
- geh shlufen – go to sleep from German Geh schlafen (Shmiel! It's 11:30! Geh shlufen.")
- geh vays – literally "go know," as in "go figure." ("Last week she said she hated his guts and now she's engaged to him. Geh vays.")
- gelt – money (German Geld with the same meaning), also chocolate coins eaten on Hanukkah (געלט gelt 'money')
- genug (גענוג) – enough (German genug)
- geshmad, geshmadde – adjective meaning '(a Jew who) converted to Christianity. From Hebrew meshumad (Literally 'destroyed', figuratively used in same sense)
- gezunterheyt (געזונטערהייט) – interjection said after a sneeze, equivalent to "bless you". Literally means "health" from German: Gesundheit.
- Gevald (געוואלד) – like oy vey said in term of violence or so (cf. German "Gewalt" = violence)
- glick – a piece of good luck (German Glück)
- glitch – a minor malfunction (possibly from Yiddish glitsh)
- goilem or golem – a man-made humanoid; an android, Frankenstein monster, or an insult, suggesting that a person has no mental capacity
- gonef or gonif (also ganiv) – thief (Hebrew גנבֿ ganav. This can be used as a somewhat generic insult, implying a "lowlife" ) – the word has also been adopted from Yiddish into German as Ganove, also a thief (often figurative)
- gornisht – nothing, not a bit, for naught (German gar nichts = nothing at all)
- goy – Someone not of the Jewish faith or people; a gentile (גוי, plural גוים Goyim, Hebrew 'nation(s)', often referring to nations other than Israel, although the Tanach calls Israel the "goy koddesh", "the Holy Nation", so Israel is also a 'goy' ) "What's John Smith doing in temple, he's a goy!" "Goy" can have a neutral connotation (non-Jews), a negative connotation (not astute or too aggressive), or a positive connotation (formal, polite). Also, among religious Jews, a derogatory term for a Jew who is both nonobservant and ignorant of Jewish law. A Jew who is learned in Jewish law but Chooses not to observe it would be called an Apikoyres (Epicurean, i.e., freethinker)
- goyisher mazel – good luck (lit. "Gentile luck")
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