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Gesundheit is "health" in German, which is why it can also be used as the equivalent of "Bless you!" when somebody has just sneezed. In (American) English, Gesundheit is often used for that purpose, too. I still remember coming across it for the first time - I was walking up a street in Monterey, California, when I had to sneeze. A stranger on the other side of the road reacted by saying "Gesundheit!", and my initial reaction was to think: how on earth does he know I'm German?
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