50 Hilarious Reasons Why The German Language Is The Worst

Chris Yuen 5 years ago

Well have you been to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

8points

Randal Hager 5 years ago

My father in law was Welsh so I'm gonna say Wales. Been to England but not Wales.

3points

Norbert Grass 8 years ago

Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitänsmützenknopf!

8points

Shushadei 5 years ago

This is missing "Gesellschaft" and some more. ...Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsmützenknopf(polierbeauftragter)

3points

Lemur 8 years ago

That looks like it will take days before the game is over.

4points

Paul K. Johnson 8 years ago

Probably takes half an hour to put down one word.

3points

Kimberley Gayle Thomas 3 years ago

sounds worse than Family Monopoly Night when you put it that way

0points

Emmerson Isip 8 years ago

Lol no, they will be run out of ketters quickly

0points

Alison Marchand 5 years ago

Props to this illustrator for drawing out the entire Scrabble board grid here, looks accurate too

2points

Julia NotMyLastname 8 years ago

Most German words are just as long as words in other languages. Of course they do have their long words, but they also have words that make sense, and lots of cognates.

2points

Atlantin 8 years ago

The secret is that we can put nouns together to one long noun. So yes, our words usually aren't longer aas in other languages.

0points

Johan Yam 3 years ago

schwerer panzerspähwagen 7,5 cm sonderkraftfahrzeug 234 4 panzerabwehrkanonenwagen

1point

BreGerEu 3 years ago

As a german I really like this one. When playing Scrabble I often recognize the playing field has not enough space on its sides.

1point

Daniëlle Raats 8 years ago

abbreviation: http://marathonsprachen.com/clarifying-german-abbreviations-usw/

1point

trippytodoroki 4 years ago

im german and when i speak/write in german its so true

0points

Since German is an ancestor to English, a lot of funny German words were passed down to us but changed in spelling over time. The original German forms of these words now have... Well, 'interesting' connotations. See for yourself below.

Oh, and just for the lols, here is the longest word in German - Donaudampfschifffahtselektrizitatenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengessellschaft. Standing proudly at 80 letters, this word translates to "Association for Subordinate Officials of the Head Office Management of the Danube Steamboat Electrical Services" and is an absolutely real concoction of letters. Try not to break your tongue with it!

#2

Nobody Expected That From You, German Language

Final score:

489points

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John L Kelly 8 years ago

I guess Greta isn't French after all.

54points

Arty 8 years ago

yep..."loupe"...or "lupa" in Spahish

16points

Elin Stenqvist 5 years ago

Who?

1point

Levi 5 years ago

Swedish she swesish

0points

Ian Koch 5 years ago

Lupe.

0points

Techniker 8 years ago

VERGRÖßERUNGSGLAS!

16points

Maike Hoffmann 8 years ago

the other german word for it is "Vergrößerungsglas" ;)

11points

Michal Polovka 8 years ago

There is also "Lupa" in both Slovak and Cezch.

10points

Inurri 8 years ago

And Polish.

7points

Shelp 5 years ago

French: loupe Spanish: lupa Portuguese: lupa I mean, the German word comes from the French one, this is just ridiculous cherry-picking

8points

Wim Schauenburg 8 years ago

Vergrößerungsglas

3points

Anita Wolf 8 years ago

or "Vergrößerungsglas" ("Lupe" is more common though)

3points

Ralf Mattern 8 years ago

Lupe is just one Kind of word. Comparable one is: Vergrößerungsglas

3points

Jonas Jensen 8 years ago

It's also called a "lup" in danish although most people do call it a "forstørrelsesglas"

3points

Ann Jeppesen 8 years ago

De fleste jeg kender og har hørt snakke om det, kalder det da oftest en lup. Ikke forstørrelsesglas.

2points

Anggi Santika 5 years ago

I thought it's called loupe also in English

2points

However, according to Olly Richards, a polyglot and the founder of I Will Teach You A Language, German actually isn't too difficult to master.

"One of the main reasons German isn’t all that hard to learn is that German and English originate from the same language families and share more similarities than you probably realize," Richards wrote. "Both German and English are Indo-European languages that stem from the Germanic family of languages. About 40% of German vocabulary is similar to English vocabulary, which is good news for native English speakers!"

#3

Mastering A Second Language

Final score:

484points

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John L Kelly 8 years ago

"Ein Schwaben Bräu bitte" makes everything work out fine.

83points

Intensive Panda 8 years ago

depending on where you live, you can get your a$$ kicked because "Schwaben" is a region in Baden-Württemberg and if you ask for example in Bavaria for a "Schwabenbräu" you'll probably get confused looks

27points

AnimalLover1117 8 years ago

Please tell me I wasnt the only one who had to look this up on google translate...

8points

Mya Lugar 5 years ago

What does that mean, anyway> Akuna Matada?

4points

Mya Lugar 5 years ago

Sprekin ze gibberish? Sorry, I am of German decent, really.

3points

Lubova Krylova 8 years ago

I needed to translate this one :D

3points

Charlie Day 5 years ago

You are so correct. During my four years in Stuttgart I drank it regularly. Great Bier.

1point

BreGerEu 3 years ago

I would not get one in the north of germany. Now I am curious how it tastes.

0points

Flare 5 years ago

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0points

DC 5 years ago

"Schnaps - das Widerlichste, das Sie haben!" will get you drunk and disgusted pretty much everywhere in germany.

0points

Nathalie Edelhirsch 8 years ago

If you are in Schwaben Ländle!

0points

TheHolyFatherOfToast 5 years ago

the f**k does that mean?

-2points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

I think this is a mentality thing. Germans are perfectionists. Plus: we don't have that aversion about speaking many languages. We are proud if we can do it.

2points

Laugh or not 5 years ago

This is so true. As long as they can see you are trying, most Germans will just switch to near perfect English. But if you are not even trying, they probably won't remember they speak it.

2points

Kimberly Greenock 5 years ago

My mom lived in Germany for 6 years in the 60s and 70s. She was told that Germans speak English so she went to a shop and tried to get help .. speaking English. The woman was horrid to her so my mom left. About 6 mo later she went back to the store this time speaking German. The woman said in perfect English to my mom "Oh you're American. How can I help you". My mom was livid. She told the lady how miserable she had made her feel six mo earlier. The woman responded "You try my language , I try yours". It's true. I was an expat in Malaysia. I immediately tried to learn Bahasa. I'd try with people and in turn they wanted to speak English and practice.

4points

Wren Aghaji 8 years ago

Germans only speak good English if they first say: "I don't speak good English..."

2points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

That's not true.

1point

Charles Laster 8 years ago

hahaha hahaha hahaha! I've been there!

2points

Michael Yackovlev 6 years ago

Where have you been Charles? All this time)

0points

SP 5 years ago

I love the language! Had a wonderful time learning it in school.There was this shop owner in Switzerland I tried to communicate with and ended up saying 'Ich kenne nur ein bisschen Deutsch' and they said 'You're the boss' 😂

1point

jasper 5 years ago

Totally me, after living in Germany for two years! But I tried... :)

1point

Maia Metz-Tolliver 5 years ago

Yeah, I have so much trouble speaking German to people. Especially to people who are AMAZING at speaking. There is so much pressure, I basically say "um" after ever two words

1point

JuJu 5 years ago

Not everywhere. Hardly any of my colleagues speak English.

1point

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

Depends on the person and other countries do that too. I've hears the french are very strict about it.

0points

Chayut Jirakhajonkul 6 years ago

That english text for a German thou, was damn acccurate cause German writers be like I gotta make my article and speech as formal and perfect as possible and end up making it overcomplicated and unnatural😂😂😂😂

1point

Richards said that pronunciation is also more straightforward than you might think and grammar is relatively easy to pick up thanks to recognizable patterns. "If we examine the phrases 'what is that?' and 'was ist das?', the connections are obvious."

Also, the polyglot thinks that it's is much easier to pronounce words phonetically in German than in English. "In English, letters often change sounds without any logical explanation. This isn’t the case in German."

"Although some aspects of German may seem difficult, once you break the language down, it's not actually that hard."

#4

Simplicity Is The Key

Final score:

480points

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Anna Brandigi 8 years ago

I'm getting some mixed signals here

160points

Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

It's all in pronunciation and tone, buddy.

24points

Among Us 5 years ago

Bitte

2points

Andrew Copping 2 years ago

same

0points

John L Kelly 8 years ago

Certainly is efficient, don't you think?

13points

Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago

Bitte.

7points

Ve Grosch 8 years ago

I'm a german and I've rea every single "bitte" in another emphasis..

9points

Ve Grosch 8 years ago

kind of. For example: if you are really like "what de Hack" you're going "->B<- itte?!" Think it's hard to Understand if you're not German..

3points

ADHORTATOR 8 years ago

It's all about accentuation...

7points

Michael Yackovlev 6 years ago

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Beatrice Alighieri 8 years ago

Italian 'Prego' :D

7points

NMN 5 years ago

Prego!

3points

Happy Ghost 8 years ago

Same with the czech "Prosím"

6points

Michael Yackovlev 6 years ago

really)

1point

Cat Meow 8 years ago

They should've written the last "Bitte?" in italics, because that's kinda like you say it...

6points

Dyvekedatingdogs 5 years ago

Norwegian: sorry - oi. i have not seen you for forever - oi! I’m surprised - oi!!! I’m disappointed - oi....bad news: oi....good news: OI!!

5points

Hans 8 years ago

Bitte! is missing here.

4points

Anna Kotłowska 8 years ago

Ha ha in Polish it's the same thing with this word

4points

#5

There's A Word For Everything In German Language

Final score:

449points

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Anna Brandigi 8 years ago

They have words for pretty much everything

143points

Talia Johnson 8 years ago

Apart from 'procrastination' according to my German friend. When I explained the meaning to her, she said 'but why on earth would you put off doing something when you could do it now?' I said 'I'll tell you later' :-)

34points

Jörg Zingler 8 years ago

As far as I know we lack 2 words in German, the opposite of thirsty and that little rod you place on conveyor belts at supermarkets to divide the shoppings.

9points

Kat Blak 8 years ago

Isn't it great?

3points

Hugo Kwame Coles 5 years ago

So that is why words are long, there are no combinations left

2points

Maike Hoffmann 8 years ago

of course we do ;)

2points

Animal Lover 4 years ago

After seeing this post, I totally agree!

1point

Darwinist 5 years ago

German words might as well be sentences.

1point

Dominic Neum 5 years ago

Oh heck yeah. We do.! 😂😂

1point

Hilary Mol 5 years ago

And the more syllables the better.

0points

Pandola 5 years ago

true, I have lived for years in a region in Italy were German is the second mother language, so I had to study very hard but it was very complicated for me...I hate how it sound and the grammar is so obsolete and not practical at all

0points

Jon Smith 8 years ago

We have that word to, disimprove.

3points

Shushadei 5 years ago

But ours is longer! (Ha!)

0points

Ironcat_xox 8 years ago

There's a word for being happy yet slightly guilty for someone else's self-imposed misery. No joke. Schadenfreude.

2points

Wren Aghaji 8 years ago

It's not actually a German word though

-2points

Julia NotMyLastname 8 years ago

Exactly. Sometimes the reason German words are longer is bc they use a word that is shower than our sentences but longer than our words to describe something we take a sentence to describe.

2points

Alison Marchand 5 years ago

"Use it in a sentence, please?"

1point

Cecile Lacroix 5 years ago

yes, there is a word for that: Kaputtreparieren

1point

klaus murder 5 years ago

In austria we say "Pfusch"

1point

Erwin Dillinger 5 years ago

Pfusch is also german but has a different meaning than verschlimmbessern. Pfusch is simply, doing a bad job at something.

0points

Vaida Kuodytė 5 years ago

The secret is taking all the words in the sentence and slamming them together

1point

Wibbi 5 years ago

I have a friend who is learning German right now. From time to time she asks me for words which almost always ends with her exclaiming: "I knew you have a word for that!"

1point

Reginald Joseph 5 years ago

The best words ever: Shameful joy and Grief Bacon

1point

#6

Germans vs. Foreigners

Final score:

433points

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Lilya 8 years ago

Ha that's so me.

87points

John L Kelly 8 years ago

Entschuldigen Sie?

9points

Sue Hazlewood 5 years ago

You see them all as Hitler?

4points

Dillon .Taylor 4 years ago

IKR

0points

Enea 8 years ago

All Germans talk funny and are closely associated with Hitler... how genuine. And not racist at all. Just some good humoured fun. Like all Ugandans are totally Idi Amin. And all Italians secretly have a weak spot for Mussolini. Tell me again, where does hate speech start? Very offensive, that is.

20points

Pi... 8 years ago

Totally with u on this one... we should really stop all jokes even on all kinds of stereotyping. Only then will the world improve.

10points

Hugo Kwame Coles 5 years ago

Uh Hitler is Austrian

5points

Wren Aghaji 8 years ago

I agree about the Hitler thing, it's tedious but you do have to understand that to the rest of the world German sounds like a hard punch in the face. I only have tolerance for it and don't think it sounds so harsh now I live there.

4points

Silke 8 years ago

Also, Hitler was actually not German.

4points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

But then we would have to stop making jokes about Mr Orange....

2points

Frankenfrog 5 years ago

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brown_panda 8 years ago

it is the wurst

11points

Me 8 years ago

I'm german and I must admit that it sounds like this for me sometimes, too...

7points

Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

I was married to an Arabic speaking man and we both accused each other of yelling at our respective moms on the phone after perfectly polite conversations.

6points

Caroline Murphy 8 years ago

I used to think this until I started to like German bands and during interviews completely shocked with how soft spoken they were

6points

Cat Meow 8 years ago

As a German, I agree. Not sure if it's the way Rs are pronounced or what, it does sound agressive

6points

Michael Yackovlev 6 years ago

Does Russian sound agressive?

3points

Wren Aghaji 8 years ago

It's the fact there aren't a lot of vowels and all the vowel sounds sound like things we use to express disgust, annoyance or pain in English like ur, ow, oi and so on.

2points

Felicity Lemon 5 years ago

Yup I am German to I think it might be the Rs

1point

Amanda Panda 8 years ago

It really does sound like such an aggressive language with lesser usage of vowels.

6points

Daria Z 5 years ago

I actually like the sound of German, it's beautiful :)

5points

Ramlih Sov 8 years ago

It's true. Us Dutch sound agressive too

4points

Whatshername 5 years ago

Depends if you live in the North or South I think.

0points

#7

Unique German Words

Final score:

397points

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Anna Brandigi 8 years ago

same

57points

E Menendez 5 years ago (edited)

2020 in a nutshell

11points

Bridgette David 8 years ago

Now I know what the name of my condition is. Finally.

12points

Maike Hoffmann 8 years ago

it is grief-fat (as in body fat), really, not bacon. Okay, i know i am a spoilsport … :p

7points

lia minou 5 years ago

My first thought was "worry-fat" 😁

2points

Charles Laster 8 years ago

more grief bacon, bitte!

4points

Seabeast 5 years ago

Now I want a grief-bacon/lettuce/tomato sandwich.

2points

Monty Is Fiennes 5 years ago

I eat grief bacon...

2points

Mya Lugar 5 years ago

That's magically descriptive

2points

The Hufflepuff Bookworm 5 years ago

I need an English equivalent now

1point

Mary Tonningsen Premium 5 years ago

Makes so much sense to me!

1point

Alessandra Ricotta 5 years ago

I like this one!

1point

#8

The Language Of Poets

Final score:

356points

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Troux 8 years ago

These all have direct English equivalents: "I got tossed in the back of a car" "We came together after the movie" "I gave my bird what she needed last night"

76points

Mariana Laß 8 years ago

Uh, no ... festnehmen is not equivalent to being thrown in the back of a car ... yes I know what you mean the point is about the word for word translation and how separating them creates a whole different meaning

13points

Lubova Krylova 8 years ago

Ok, I just found out something new :))

2points

Vaida Kuodytė 5 years ago

I will never dare to speak German again D:

1point

Jo Choto 5 years ago

The problem is, you can see the difference when it's written, but it sounds the same when you say it, unless you really intonate well.

1point

Kat Blak 8 years ago

Relatable

1point

Kat Blak 8 years ago

but just say treffen for "to meet"

1point

Alex George 1 year ago

how do you differentiate the last two when you're speaking?

0points

Maik Sommer 4 years ago

like "jemanden umfahren" (to drive around someone) and "jemanden umfahren" (to drive over someone)

0points

William Mahoney 5 years ago

Cold, cold and colder.

0points

Darwinist 5 years ago

How about english people who don't use commas

0points

Kate Burgess 8 years ago

I wonder if you can help me. I am a pensioner learning German in a group of other pensioners. My questions is - Is it pretentious to use the genitive case in modern spoken German? Many thanks

0points

Sarah Hess 8 years ago

I am German, but I'm not sure about it. Often the genitive case is replaced by the dative case. There even is a book called "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod", because the dative case is slowly killing the genitive case. I think it would sound a bit pretentious or arrogant if you used the genitive case in smaller villages in Southern/Middle Germany. In Northern Germany you would attract attention when using the dative case, at least that's what i suppose.

1point

#9

Kinder Kids

Final score:

323points

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juice 5 years ago

heehee, because Kinder means children

75points

Rhys Tal Cernunnos 5 years ago

I guess that is where we get our word "Kindergarten" from. XD

14points

Ausrine Ciapaite 5 years ago

You don't say

9points

Amaranthim Talon 5 years ago

Thank you, capn' obvious...

1point

Hans 5 years ago

These are not German children. Probably Bavarian. (Which many Germans consider somewhat not to be a real part of the country).

4points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

Yeah, the downvotes are stupid. If you live in the most northern part of Germany (Schleswig-Holstein), you might even joke about everything south of the Elbe (river through Hamburg) is Bavarian and therefore not Germany.

6points

Janine B. 5 years ago (edited)

Why the downvotes? It's true. Bavaria is a kind of a special part of Germany. Like Scots are no English. And even in Bavaria there are different areas with totally different accents. Franken is a part of Bayern but the "real" Bavarians don't consider it as truly Bavarian. Strange folks. :)

5points

SilverLining 5 years ago

Oof

0points

Darwinist 5 years ago

Kinder Eggs

3points

Stuart Court 5 years ago

German humour

0points

Nuri 5 years ago

oooh wow thats so bad!

0points

Noel Bovae 5 years ago

Kinder-Eggs... Kinder-garten... I see what's going on here. (Only took me 36 years.)

0points

Lydia Coy 5 years ago

Aww

0points

SoozeeQ 5 years ago

I laughed at this one!

0points

Kate 5 years ago

Except that one in Schindler’s List...

0points

Leo Domitrix 5 years ago

Ouch.

0points

#10

Funny German Language

Final score:

313points

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Juana 8 years ago

Why do the write the names of the languages and then throw in Mexico? For continuity they should have written Spanish. And a flag of Spain.

180points

Daria B 8 years ago

I'm with you on this one. Nothing wrong with Mexico, but let's face it → the language is "Spanish", and it originated in Spain, therefore the continuity of this illustration was already broken at that part. Full stop.

18points

Juan Caminante 8 years ago

"sorpresa" is the most common word for "surprise" in the spanish world,,,, it is used in spain, argentina, mexico, peru, etc,,,, that is not a mexican regionalism,, its a common and almost irreplaceable world for all of us,, it was a mistake, or maybe because mexico is the most populated country in the spanish world,,,

9points

Kevin Schrader 8 years ago

To be honest, most americans probably don't even know what spain is and think people in mexico speak mexican :D

6points

Pablo Campos 5 years ago

Mexican here, could not agree more

3points

Jaimie Lingle 8 years ago

The languange spoken in the majority of Mexico is different than the language spoken in Spain. Very similar, but a little more than a dialect-type difference. Kind of like American English versus British English.

2points

Rhys Tal Cernunnos 5 years ago

Everyone's gotta b***h about something...

1point

Luisa Vasconcelos 5 years ago

Same when I choose option portuguese on Netflix and they throw me with portuguese from Brasil and not five option portuguese from Portugal, although I live in Germany. And of course everyone thinks I'm brasilianish because I'm also black.

1point

Evil Little Thing 5 years ago

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1point

Allayna 5 years ago

Mexico speaks a lil bit of a different kind of spanish than what spain does

0points

Isla Brunold 5 years ago

do not understand

0points

Cory Kent 5 years ago

You're right. Not everyone can see that detail, but you're absolutely correct!

0points

Toea Muresan Iulia 5 years ago

sorpresa!

0points

Mariana Laß 8 years ago

Mexicans speak Spanish... what is the problem? Who cares?

0points

Inna Yan 8 years ago

Spanish is generally speaking.In Spain the official language is castellano.

0points

Kate Swartz 8 years ago

Yea wtf!?

0points

Priscilla Herrera 8 years ago

And why does Spain always have to represent Spanish? There are no plenty of other countries that speak Spanish!!

0points

Tiger Lily 8 years ago

I don't know for sure, but the word main be different in 'Spain Spanish' vs. 'Mexican Spanish', for lack of a better description. There are variations. A friend was from Uraguay and she told me the Uruguayan word for earring was the word for chandelier in traditional Spanish.

0points

Monika Przymuszala 8 years ago

Why? What's wrong wit Mexico? They speak Spanish too, so...

0points

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Cat Meow 8 years ago

Missing the H. And because I love surprises, here's my favorite surprise: 348030-589...a51e52.jpg

13points

Amanda Panda 8 years ago

I lived in Germany as a kid (dad was military) and we LOVED Kinder eggs! My sis brings them back when she travels there, and they still make me smile!

3points

Daria B 8 years ago

Kinder Surprise eggs are very common in Croatia too. Then I moved to Korea, where for a long time they didn't have any of the European sweets at all. Now they have Kinder Joy, but, if tou ask me, Kinder Surprise is much better in all aspects. They chose the "wrong" egg to import. I feel sorry for these kids. ^_-

2points

NMN 5 years ago

Brings me good memories =)

1point

Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago

Kinder surprise is banned in the US of A. Now I see Kinder joy in stores but still no Kinder Surprise. The only way to get Kinder surprise in the USA is to smuggle it from Canada. So sad.

0points

Edgard Želâznog 8 years ago

Didn't know Mexico was a language! 😂

8points

Gunnar Schreck 8 years ago

It's actually "überraschung".

4points

Edeltraud Dent 8 years ago

Ich hasse den Gesichtsausdruck der deutschen Person beim Sprechen. I really hate the facial expression of the German person when speaking. We only look like that when we are really angry, just like all other people.

3points

Slune 5 years ago

Yeah, but it is comprehensible. For people who are speaking a "softer" language, German sounds harsh, barking like and clipped.

0points

Enea 8 years ago

Surprise, the Roman languages and English have a word for surprise that sounds pleasant whereas the German word doesn’t. What's the point? That this is relatable to all languages (try looking up surprise in Hungarian or Czech)? Or that all German words sound aggressive? It's sad to see this stereotyping bullsh*t featured on Bored Panda.

2points

Susanna Fieramosca 8 years ago

Überraschung!

2points

Dani Who-who 8 years ago

missing an "h" Überraschung

2points

Kestutis Magnums 5 years ago

latin language group against german language group...

1point

Aleksandra Kuza 8 years ago

Überraschung

1point

#11

Hand Shoes Make Perfect Sense

Final score:

287points

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Roman Hans 5 years ago

Here Germany makes much more sense. Why make up a new word when you can repurpose old ones? Gloves really are “hand shoes.”

97points

Luna Lovegood 5 years ago

mmmm...more like "hand socks"

31points

Vaida Kuodytė 5 years ago

Shame hats aren't head shoes

12points

SykesDaMan 5 years ago

I think of them more like hand socks.

9points

Darwinist 5 years ago

More like handsocke

4points

Hugh Walter 5 years ago

Cotta' disagree with you there Roman - because everything should have it's own 'name', that's as bad as spider crabs and crab spiders! Are you saying trousers should be leg-shoes? Hats - head shoes?

3points

Cici Qiu 5 years ago

Why shoes and not socks tho

2points

Markus Holstein 5 years ago

How about the German word for dental floss: "Zahnseide", literally "tooth silk"

3points

Santhe van der Meulen 5 years ago

In Dutch, gloves are "hand schoes" too (handshoenen)!

1point

Lydia Coy 5 years ago

I learn german and its handschuen

1point

Olive Stirk 4 years ago

*tries so hard not to laugh and epically fails*

0points

Dotzilla 5 years ago

I'm German and Italian, definitely learning Italian instead of German :-)

0points

Lola Wootwoot 5 years ago

Bit like in irish. Fox in irish- Madra rua. = Madra, dog. Rua, Red. Dog red. (Irish is backwards so it makes perfect sense)

0points

Elsker 5 years ago

In Dutch we have the same word, 'handschoenen', litteraly hand shoes.

0points

Geordie Insomniac 5 years ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣 hand shoes.

0points

Stefaan De Clerck 5 years ago

It's the same in Dutch: handschoenen. Literally 'shoes for hands'.

0points

#12

Salad, Anyone?

Final score:

287points

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Monday 5 years ago

I need to sort out my cable salad....

62points

The Hufflepuff Bookworm 5 years ago

So do I

2points

Kari Jokinen 5 years ago

Johtospagetti in Finnish. Cable spaghetti.

7points

SoozeeQ 5 years ago

This one makes more sense. Cable spaghetti instead of Cable Salad.

1point

Markus Holstein 5 years ago

Back in the days of music cassettes, when one of them gut stuck in your cassette player, you might have ended up with a veritable "Bandsalat" - "tape salad"

3points

Bender Bending Rodríguez 5 years ago

I hate cable salad.

2points

Nary Vang 5 years ago

Should I be scared that I actually read the German word as cable salad phonetically and that's what it means? LOL ☺️

2points

Vaida Kuodytė 5 years ago

German and English are actually rather close in origin, so it's very much normal.

4points

Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

Delicious.

2points

Shelby P 5 years ago

I call it wire spaghetti and people like to eat salad with spaghetti so, yeah....

1point

Shelli Aderman 5 years ago

That one actually makes sense! 🤣

1point

Bruh. 5 years ago

Ah yes. One for the vegans

1point

Kimberley Gayle Thomas 3 years ago

One of my cats likes to nibble my cable salad

0points

#13

As A Foreigner Who’s Learning German, So Accurate

Final score:

279points

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Daria Z 5 years ago

🤘😆

73points

Miri Lee 5 years ago

Lyrics to a song from Rammstein

8points

Vaida Kuodytė 5 years ago

DU HAST MICH GEFRAGT UND ICH HAB NICHTS GESAGT

5points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

"Wer ist der Bürgermeister von Wesel?" - "Esel"....

4points

Jo Choto 5 years ago

Rammstein!

3points

Britta B 5 years ago

:D :D :D :D

3points

Monty Is Fiennes 5 years ago

Love a Rammstein joke....

2points

L.j. Bus 5 years ago

Guess what song is in my head now 🙄😂

1point

Hanneke Legerstee 5 years ago

Du hast mir gefragt und ich hab nichts gesagt!

1point

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

Mich not mir ;)

0points

Rhys Tal Cernunnos 5 years ago

One of my most favorite German songs!

1point

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

Which is your least favorite?

0points

Ryan Schweitzer 4 years ago

Or, the old polka classic of "Du, du liegst mir am Herzen" (made famous by Marlene Dietrich) could be used here as well. :)

0points

#14

Funny German Language

Final score:

267points

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Volker Burmester 8 years ago

Sechs is german for six and sound almost like sex. Vier means four in german and sounds like fear. And fünf is german for five.

153points

Gabriel Cervantes 8 years ago

Thnks 4 that..

16points

ElusiveIntrovert 5 years ago

Thanks for the explanation, I was really lost here.

9points

Pandola 5 years ago

this is a nice joke, I like numbers

6points

SoozeeQ 5 years ago

Why did the artist write *Mon Cher* (French) instead of *Mein Freund* (German)? Both equal *My Friend*, but the joke is for the German words...

5points

Rism 8 years ago

Thanks Volker 🙏🏽

5points

NavyDave 5 years ago

The swedish word sex means both sex and six.

4points

Felicity Lemon 5 years ago

That is why I hate saying six in German

3points

Johan Yam 3 years ago

Pun detected

1point

Chrissi Wood 8 years ago

How do German nuns count? Eins, zwei, drei, vier, funf, we don't talk about it, sieben, acht......

10points

Toea Muresan Iulia 5 years ago

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-2points

Marie Rundel 8 years ago

Muhaha! I'm German and I can't stop laughing about this!!!

5points

Felicity Lemon 5 years ago

Same

1point

Intensive Panda 8 years ago

😂😂😂

5points

Julia NotMyLastname 8 years ago

OK THIS IS AMAZING THIS IS WHAT GERMAN JOKES SHOULD LOOK LIKE

4points

Amin Sorbi 8 years ago

I wanted to learn German, but now I'm starting to vier!!

4points

VisKit 8 years ago

OMG!!! Es ist sehr komisch!!!!

4points

Lydia Coy 5 years ago

Accurate

3points

Analyn Lahr 5 years ago

That's funny. Once I read the comment that explained it.

2points

Soodney 5 years ago

Ah, yes. TF2 is back

2points

#15

When German Language Wasn't Scary But Cute

Final score:

263points

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Mary Peace 5 years ago

The French say "How are you called?" when they want to know your name. I suppose it's like asking "How do I get your attention?" really.

26points

Kate 5 years ago

C’est quoi votre nom?

2points

Helga Ruseen 5 years ago

Russians do too

1point

Disgusting Sehun 5 years ago

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Hans 5 years ago

I think making fun of Germans announcing the time in a language that has the completely superfluous am and pm is funny.

3points

Monday 5 years ago

That's not just a German thing...

2points

WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago

There is a difference between a scheduled meeting at 9.00 AM or at 9.00 PM. Not all countries use the military time out of habit... ;)

0points

Pandola 5 years ago

Hans I have studied German for years and I find it difficult if not impossible to understand and speak. I much prefer Math. In fact I was very good in memorizing numbers in German...

-1point

pebs 5 years ago

Also in italian it's something like "how do you call yourself?".

1point

Whopdeedoo 1 year ago

ARMOR TOAD

0points

Cupcake168 5 years ago

o.0 Nobody ever asks "how are you called?“ We ask "what's your name?" "wie ist ihr Name?" or something there’s no translation for: „Wie heißen Sie?" (close to "how are you heating" :D - "How are you called" would be "wie werden sie gerufen" - and nobody would ever say so.

0points

Mary Tonningsen Premium 5 years ago

I love it for that reason when I took German in high school! I took 5 yrs of Spanish and it never was as easy for me as German was.

0points

Kismutt 5 years ago

Gophers are erd menschen...ground(earth) people...this one always kills me...lol

0points

niki.bordeaux 5 years ago

It's Erdmännchen, sound and meaning are similar though. "Männchen" is the diminutive for man/men.

0points

Max L. 5 years ago (edited)

In italian how are you we say "how you stay", what’s your name "how do you call yourself", how are you "how you stay", what time is it "which hour is", "hi" and "bye" root comes from a 1500 expression which means "Im your slave", mostly born in venetian area, shortened in "ciao", exported to germany in "tschau"

0points

Bunzilla 5 years ago

LITTLE SEA PIG

-1point

Bruh. 5 years ago

Casually asks my friend with a watch how much clock is it

-1point

#16

Naming Animals In German

Final score:

259points

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Beatrice Alighieri 8 years ago

This is brilliant, I can't stop laughing XD

91points

Sophia Cai 7 years ago

"Threatening chicken" = turkey ... I have no words.

7points

SoozeeQ 5 years ago

I would have thought a *threatening chicken* was a goose, not a turkey! :oÞ

2points

Coronamutant außer Rand und Band 4 years ago

Makes more sense than naming an American bird after a southern Asian country.

1point

Chrissie M. 5 years ago

That is actually not true, trut doesn't mean anything in German, and Hahn means c**k.

1point

Talia Johnson 8 years ago

I want to give this one extra points!!! We need a double up button (Germans - have you got a great word for double up button?)

6points

My O My Premium 5 years ago

Been thinking about this for a while now... Can't find a word. Anybody else?

1point

Sophia Cai 7 years ago

In French the word for bat means "bald rat" LMAO

5points

Martha Meyer 5 years ago

The Truthahn one is nonsense. Trut does not mean “threatening“.

4points

Janine B. 5 years ago

Jein. "Trut" originates from the old German word "droten" which nowadays means drohen / to threaten. It's based on the turkey's sounds.

3points

Mela Nie 8 years ago

The dugong is called a "Seekuh" (sea-cow) though...

3points

NMN 5 years ago

Same order, different species https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugong

1point

NMN 5 years ago

Tapir kinda looks like a pig but is just "tapir" in german =(

2points

Pi... 8 years ago

I have a bad cough n I'm laughing in my head So hard at this post! :-D

2points

Lely R Sutrisno 8 years ago

I want to eat roasted threatening chicken!

2points

politecat 42 5 years ago

Stinktier - StinkAnimal - Skunk :D

1point

#17

Best Photo From Trip To Berlin

Final score:

248points

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Hans 5 years ago

Fat hard street. nothing to see here, move along folks.

66points

Candace Fitzpatrick 5 years ago

Fat hard street is still not the best street name....a friend of mine lives on Woodcock ave.

10points

Dietmar Pichler 5 years ago

Or... :D

3points

Max L. 5 years ago

You take the joy out of everything

1point

AflyingSquirrel 5 years ago

..... i have no words..........

0points

Bathsheba 5 years ago

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Philler Space 5 years ago

It's long and hard and fast and (as you can see from the absence of bike lane or sidewalk) lacks protection.

1point

Janine B. 5 years ago

Oh, grow up. :)

1point

William Mahoney 5 years ago

Funny !!!

0points

I H 5 years ago

Dickhardt was a composer... have a look: http://www.friedenau-aktuell.de/stra%C3%9Fen-pl%C3%A4tze/dickhardtstra%C3%9Fe/

0points

Mariele Scherzinger 5 years ago

In the town where I used to live (near the French border...), they had a Sautierstraße.

0points

Mya Lugar 5 years ago

Is he the poster boy for...?

0points

DC 5 years ago

Hahahaha ... D**k! Hard! Hahaha!

0points

Dillon .Taylor 4 years ago

you got it right there sir quite comical

1point

#18

When German Language Had Like A Gazillion Ways To Say "Why".

Final score:

234points

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Hans 5 years ago

All of these have a different connotation and add to the richness of communication. You would also rather say "for which purpose do you use a rifle" than "why", if you seek to explore the intention.

57points

Leo Domitrix 5 years ago

Can you be my German teacher? Honestly, that's the best explanation I've heard *ever*, and that counts two friends whose native language is German, and ROsetta Stone, and a German A1-2 "professor" who apparently learned German from an alternate universe!

5points

Lievetje 5 years ago

In Dutch most of these exist as well. I don't agree though that the translation is always just "why": - warum means why (waarom) - wieso means how come (hoezo) - wozu means to what / to which (waartoe) - wofür means for which / for what (waarvoor) - weshalb means for which reason (waardoor) - weswegen means about what (waarover) So even in English you will not use 'why' in many of these contexts! As Hans said, they all add to the richness of the language.

3points

Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

Almost all of them are part of the German Sesame Street theme song that is now playing on a loop in my head and this became an "Ohrwurm" (ear-worm).

3points

JuJu 5 years ago

Wer, wie was - der, die, das - wieso, weshalb, warum - wer nicht fragt bleibt dumm :)

2points

Vaida Kuodytė 5 years ago

I studied German at school for like 5 years, and was only taught "warum". Disappointed :(.

2points

Ace Cole 5 years ago

Italian has 6 different words for the and if you use the wrong one it's bad grammer.

1point

DC 3 years ago

I had a friend, who was an unbearable knowitall, in 1st and 2nd grade. He would always ask "Weswegen?" with a very annoying melody in his askery ... wesweeeeeeeeeeegenn? His mother told him every day that he's the most intelligent out of his class, even with classmates standing by who knew very well she only knew, like, him ... I heard her say this when I first was at their place, like one or two weeks into 1st grade ... and it made him feel he is.

0points

Mya Lugar 5 years ago

Why? Was he Whupped?

0points

Melanie Höflich 5 years ago

Darum!

0points

ElusiveIntrovert 5 years ago

Too much work?

0points

Daria Z 5 years ago

Lol 😂👍

0points

#19

When A Single Letter Made A Huge Difference

Final score:

228points

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Hans 5 years ago

Effect, affect...you will find enough examples in English, too.

49points

JuJu 5 years ago

But none as funny as Arschaffen.

27points

Monday 5 years ago

The English ones aren't as funny since changing out a vowel keeps things to a fairly similar meaning.

8points

Monty Is Fiennes 5 years ago

Not quite the same as create/A*S MONKEY....

7points

Leo Domitrix 5 years ago

Thank you, Hans! :-)

3points

Lauren Caswell 5 years ago

Slaughter, laughter

1point

JamezyJamez 5 years ago

This relates well to the one above about God's creations

1point

Bob Anderson 5 years ago

yeah... except in English it's not that extreme. For example, I want to create a tower VS I want to a*s monkey a tower.

1point

Jo Choto 5 years ago

but one is arsch (a**e) affen (ape) and the other is er (prefix) schaffen (manage/do).

1point

DC 3 years ago

... we got a lot of ass monkeys around here ... we even have a word for many of them gathering and doing assish, monkeyesque things - "Regierung".

0points

niki.bordeaux 5 years ago

Ich möchte Arschaffen erschaffen, zum anschaffen und gaffen.

0points

Boop 5 years ago

*gasp* old google!

0points

#20

When German Language Wasn't As Cold And Ugly As They Always Say … But Beautiful And Emotional

Final score:

225points

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ADHORTATOR 5 years ago

That is true

36points

Calane E. Vanya 5 years ago

german words sound just adequate. "love" - "die Liebe", there are no growling sounds at all. and most of the words you think sound harsh, are spoken really softly. intonation changes a lot. (german or english isn't my first language)

4points

Grivzyrn Novarn 5 years ago

As I moved from Russia to Germany, I experienced the German language as very harsh and unfriendly. Now I feel the same when I hear Russian ^^

3points

Hurrem Haseki 5 years ago

German people says "Tschüss" all the time. That is 'Goodbye'.

2points

Janine B. 5 years ago

Yes and no. Tschüss is used as a short form of saying bye but it originates from the North German "atschüss" which is supposed to have its origin in adieu / adjuss. That means something like "willed by God" .

2points

Peko 5 years ago

Au revoir, hasta verte, på återseende.

2points

Blueberry Woofle 5 years ago

Auf Wiedersehen? Tschuss?

0points

SP 5 years ago

This is great!

0points

Lauren Brandon 5 years ago

Love this 💗

0points

William Mahoney 5 years ago

Except for the loud tones used during World Wars . Kind of hardens you against it.

0points

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François Carré 5 years ago

All apologies. Like almost everybody in France I share a lot of jokes and bad clichés about German language, but I want to say that everybody I met from this country were really nice people.

0points

#21

Makes Sense

Final score:

224points

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Linus Nilsson 5 years ago

I laughed, until I realized that it's the same in my language

81points

Claudia 5 years ago

Same in Dutch

11points

Stina Kolling 5 years ago

Ok so now you guys are gonna tell us how it's said in Norwegian and Dutch, right?

5points

crazyswede 5 years ago

Swedish?

4points

Lydia Coy 5 years ago (edited)

Translated from german: Whats ur language?

0points

GG 5 years ago

What's a sheild? :P

1point

Robin Fitzwater 5 years ago

like the big metal thing you hold to protect yourself in battle

-2points

NMN 5 years ago

now, that was for turtle, but how about for tortoise? (Same word?)

1point

Bumblebee 5 years ago

I don't know about German. But in the Netherlands, right next to it, we call it a a tortoise a Land Turtle. Or Literally in Dutch: Land schildpad (schild=shield, pad=toad, same principle. And land as in ground)

2points

😸Marik😺 5 years ago (edited)

It's "Land-schildkröte" (turtle "ground-shield-toad") and "Wasser-schildkröte" (tortoise, living in lakes/rivers "water-shield-toad") or "Meeres-schildkröte" (tortoise, living in the ocean = "sea-shield-toad") If you have a combined german word, cut it into it's parts. The last part describes the basic. (Kröte=toad) The other parts are there to define stuff further (Schild=shield) (Meer=sea)

0points

Lauren Brandon 5 years ago

Die Schildkröte und die Landschildkröte

0points

niki.bordeaux 5 years ago

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0points

Caffeinated Hedgehog 5 years ago

Teenage Mutant Ninja Shield Toads

1point

PhantomBuni 5 years ago

Hallo! American here, my language consists of shorter words but we have an annoying grammar system and a horrible president, so you win! (I like German food more though)

1point

Femme Finn 5 years ago

Same in Finnish, kilpi = shield, konna = toad. Kilpikonna.

1point

Dotzilla 5 years ago

I'm learning both German and Italian! Thanks bored panda :-D

0points

Toea Muresan Iulia 5 years ago

frog with a cover here :D

0points

Boop 5 years ago

aww

0points

Csaba Jozsa 5 years ago

"Sheild", lol, for some even their native language is too hard

0points

#22

This Is Why I Love The German Language

Final score:

219points

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Tomek Sztuk 5 years ago (edited)

Brilliant, although it's a purposefully complicated joke name :D Fahrradständer is a real German name for a bicycle stand, above says something in line of "climate protection enforcing device securing place" ;)

99points

Dietmar Pichler 5 years ago

Still a valid word in german. I like the idea of creating new words anytime it fits :)

6points

ola 5 years ago

I love that idea!!

1point

Heaven Scott 5 years ago

how do you read such long words? thats interesting

1point

Ian Koch 5 years ago

somebody took April fools a BIT too seriously...

0points

Toea Muresan Iulia 5 years ago

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0points

lara 5 years ago

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Trying so hard thinking 5 years ago

"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" - name of village in Wales

5points

elliza a.rahim 5 years ago

Climate protection implementation device mooring point

5points

Toea Muresan Iulia 5 years ago (edited)

for a latin language speaker (Romanian) these words give the idea: something extremely important is happening, we are very serious :)))) or... RUN

1point

Mya Lugar 5 years ago

Why, of course!

1point

Max L. 5 years ago

Solution for too much bicycles robbery sues in police station : solved. Where was it stolen at ? Oh... nevermind.

1point

Kopf Los 5 years ago

Klimaschutz - Umsetzung - Gerät - Festmachstelle (Fest=Hard)

1point

Daphne 5 years ago

Good one!

1point

Barbara McNeill 4 years ago

Dear God in heaven! I'm getting a migraine looking at this.

0points

AnimalsRuleHumansDrool 4 years ago

Climate protection implementation device mooring point.

0points

#23

Funny German Language

Final score:

216points

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Lilya 8 years ago

Person: That's amazing! Me: That's sausage to me. Person: No, the post I was talking about. Me: SAUSAGE

88points

Lilya 8 years ago

🎵THIS IS SAUSAGE. TO ME.🎵

13points

Mike Siemons 8 years ago

In Dutch too: "dat zou me een worst wezen" (that would be a sausage to me) what a beautiful languages

11points

Santhe van der Meulen 5 years ago

Maar ik snap nog steeds niet waarom we dat eigenlijk zeggen...

0points

Eva Giann 8 years ago

In greece we say " there are flowers on my d*ick and bees all aroun" so yeah....BEAT that! *Giggle*

8points

Gryzelda Pazurkiewicz 5 years ago

This is probably why Germany and Poland have always clashed. We would never dare to suggest that sausage is unimportant :D

3points

Nitheesh A S 5 years ago

In my local language, it's said "enikk ith pulla" which literally means "this is grass to me". Am I sensing something?

3points

Toea Muresan Iulia 5 years ago

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0points

Gryzelda Pazurkiewicz 5 years ago

This is probably why Germany and Poland never got along. In Poland nobody would dare to suggest that sausage is not important :D

2points

Mieke Hartkamp 8 years ago

It's similar in Dutch, we say 'Dat zal me een worst wezen!', which means 'that will be a sausage to me!'.

2points

Angie Verhaegen 8 years ago

It's the same in Dutch "dat zal me worst wezen" belgian here...

2points

Siddhi 8 years ago

I don't care originally is "Ist mir egal" though. These are all idioms. "Ist mir Wurst" or "Ist mir Banane".

1point

Cat-lover 8 years ago

Same in the Netherlands :-) "Dat zal mij (een) worst zijn!'

1point

#24

Have Some Class

Final score:

213points

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JuJu 5 years ago

Nope. We use both. Usually depending on the vowel or Umlaut before the ss/ß.

34points

Max L. 5 years ago

Don’t worry, we love you a lot for white wurstel with krauts and unreachable state of the art beer beside. All is permitted.

1point

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

And people are still confused about the Rechtschreibreform, where some of the ß were exchanged for ss permanently. Some years back ß and ss were synonymous.

1point

Ducky Oboe 3 years ago

I prefer the eszett

0points

Cupcake168 5 years ago

It doesn't depend on the vowel (compare Nuss und Fuß) ss = Short and Hard, ß = Long and soft vowel

0points

deathcorelover 5 years ago

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0points

Felicity Lemon 5 years ago

My family name ends with ss or ß it is soooo annoying

2points

True Blue 5 years ago

When writing in my laptop (English) i just write a B when I'm writing in German cause I'm to lazy to fix it up

2points

Leo Domitrix 5 years ago

The second is called the "esszett" among other things. (I stick to esszett.)

1point

Inga Viviane 5 years ago

ẞ- just making you jealous with our superior s.

0points

WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago

ß = ALT+225

0points

#25

When Even The Simpsons Had To Show The World How The German Language Is Trolling Everyone

Final score:

211points

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Kateryna 5 years ago

"Die" is "the" relating to the feminine gender... so it sounds like they are indicating Bart is female

59points

Martha Meyer 5 years ago

It's weird, because “Bart“ is German for beard, and it's der Bart, not die Bart.

11points

Monday 5 years ago

That is a revelation worth getting a tattoo for

7points

Vaida Kuodytė 5 years ago

Also you don't use articles with names :D

4points

Thomas Blake 5 years ago

Maybe it is referring to Bart's voice actress...

2points

Toea Muresan Iulia 5 years ago

or it's about the Barts, the Bart people as plural

2points

Dotzilla 5 years ago

Well, the person who does the voice for Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright, is a girl

1point

Phaedra Kalis 5 years ago

I know, LOL

1point

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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago

Germans aren't known for their sense of humour... :P

-1point

Janine B. 5 years ago

Except it would be: "Der Bart, der." Because a Bart is a mustache. :)

3points

Levi 5 years ago

Just don’t show flanders that

0points

pandaspanda 4 years ago

technically hitler wasn't german, he was hungarian!

1point

Natasha 3 years ago

I thought it was Austrian not Hungarian.

0points

WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago

Der Mann, der keinen Sinn für Geschichte hat, ist wie ein Mann, der keine Ohren oder Augen hat.

1point

Pandola 5 years ago

very true, but history repeat itself

0points

Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

Uhmm...well...

1point

OMEGA 4 years ago

*Adolf Hitler* Am i a joke to you?

0points

Crissy Brandt 5 years ago

This is my all time favorite scene.

0points

W.G. SamKito - bored 5 years ago

... stimmt!

0points

German Rottweiler#16 5 years ago

maybe he is

0points

Mogens Bedsted 5 years ago

Der Bart!

0points

#26

Funny German Language

Final score:

208points

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Johan Nobel 8 years ago

Funny, most of these work for Dutch as well and no, Dutch != German

64points

Erza 8 years ago

True. But I think Ice closets are cooler (terrible pun intended)

15points

Diana CrunChewy Watson 8 years ago

As a beginner in the Dutch language, I find that there is a strong connection between Dutch, German, and English. Many, many, many shared words (although spelled and pronounced differently).

11points

Stephan Köhli 8 years ago

Fun fact: According to my professor for medieval history Dutch is the oldest living form of the german language. :) So, in fact Dutch is the most German German existing! :D

10points

Kevin Schrader 8 years ago

As a german, when I hear dutch people talking in the distance I always think it's german first, then it sounds like english and then I realize it's actually dutch.

9points

Hilde Brox 8 years ago

And for the Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish)....

5points

MadRatter 5 years ago

It's because both are Germanic languages.most of the words are just like that in Danish. I speak Danish, English and German which makes Dutch pretty easy to read. ( The pronunciation is a completely different matter though)

2points

Fernando 5 years ago

I thought that they were similar, like Spanish and Portuguese so when I visited the Netherlands, I was sure that it would be easy speaking German. It was a big mistake.

2points

Svetla K 8 years ago

In Bulgarian as well!

2points

Cupcake168 5 years ago

No wonder, neighbor

0points

Esmee van der Steen 8 years ago

Or Dutch

3points

Pensive 5 years ago (edited)

Today I discovered we need a petition to rename lightbulbs 'glowpears' in English.

2points

AnimalLover1117 8 years ago

This literally made me want to learn German even more.

2points

True Blue 5 years ago

Same with me

1point

Wibbi 7 years ago

I feel forced to point out though that while the word commonly used for lightbulb really is "Glühbirne" ("glowing pear") but as a friend of mine always says: "Es gibt kein leuchtendes Fallobst!" ("There is no glowing windfall (literally in German actually: falling fruit)"). He is an electrician :)

1point

Diana Amberg 8 years ago

You could extend this even more. There is a town called Essen. Furthermore the chimneyoutlets on roof are called Essen (singular: die Esse)

1point

Siddhi 8 years ago

If you want to be correct about it, it is a bit different: food = Nahrung/ Essen eat = essen meal = Mahlzeit And I have no clue why that person said "Kittens" are "cat-children" which is some made up thing. Kittens are usually "Jungkatzen" or "Kätzchen" or "Kätzlein".

1point

JuJu 5 years ago

Katzenkinder. Nicht sooo ungewöhnlich.

0points

Chrisni Grobler 8 years ago

Almost all of the above, and the comments work in Afrikaans. Stofsuier - dust sucker. Handskoene - hand shoes. Huisdier - house animal. Troeteldier - petting animal. Koelkas - Cool closet.

1point

Gulsah Isik 8 years ago

And Turkish as well

1point

Sigrid Vinter 8 years ago

Many of these could be Danish too. Apart from the hand shoes..

1point

Wendy Parthoens 8 years ago

And Dutch/Flemish as well

2points

Emma Vink 8 years ago

But gloves also translates to hand shoes in Afrikaans...handskoene

0points

Emma Vink 8 years ago

Afrikaans too 😊

0points

#27

When Germany Showed The World What "Wordception" Means.

Final score:

207points

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Hans 5 years ago

You may need context. Essen is a town in the Ruhr area. Essen means food. essen means to eat. "Wollen wir heute in Essen ein wenig Essen essen?" thus makes sense.

56points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

Why so complicated? "Ich esse mein Essen in Essen"

14points

Enea 5 years ago

Even "Essen essen Essen in Essen" makes sense!

10points

Dietmar Pichler 5 years ago

It does :) Ich habe tatsächlich vergessen, mein Essen in Essen zu essen, welches zuvor du hast besessen, doch das soll mich nicht stressen. :-*

6points

Anamaria Mazer de Toledo 5 years ago

Yessen, please.

1point

Zinti 5 years ago

Thank you so much for your explanations!

1point

Adam Rindegård 5 years ago

IM GOING TO FOOD

1point

Ilse Baker 5 years ago

Glad you explained that, Hans.

0points

Mariele Scherzinger 5 years ago

Die Menschen wollen nicht in Dortmund leben, sondern essen. Das wusste schon Rio Reiser.

0points

Lydia Coy 5 years ago

This is offencive

-1point

#28

Funny German Language

Final score:

201points

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Silent Skeleton 8 years ago

Yes

120points

Hellysal 8 years ago

Yeß

40points

Anja Bösche 5 years ago

No, it’s ‚ ’Tsssss‘ ! 🐍🇩🇪

8points

Kate 5 years ago

No ßhit?

6points

Jörg Zingler 8 years ago

They used to, but we had 2 grammar reforms.

19points

Sarah Scholz 8 years ago

omg that killed me xD ... but wait, only 2? ... guess you missed smth ;)

1point

Cat Meow 8 years ago

Unfortunately, they haven't in many years. Someone thought it's smart to mess with our grammar, now snakes go ssssssssssss as well (though ss = ß)

8points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

Nope, thats wrong (after the reforms). Ss is NOT = ß. That was before the reforms. You can't interchange them anymore.

1point

Pi... 8 years ago

I don't get it. :(

4points

Rainbow Panda 5 years ago

And my snakes go §§§§§§§§§§. 🐍

2points

Borgia 137 5 years ago

We have a joke, but it works best in slovak. "s" means with(literally). What sound makes a german snake? Mit mit mit mit. 😂🤣😅 (as in ssss)... Okay, I'll let myself out, thank you for you time.

2points

Marie-claude Favier 8 years ago

They have no choice..

2points

Agnieszka Janiszewska 8 years ago

and sheep goes Bäääääää

1point

My O My Premium 5 years ago

Bääää is for goats, määää for sheep

3points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

And cows go muh

1point

Jennifer Tarnow 8 years ago

Or Määääääääää, it depends.

0points

Lemur 8 years ago

That would be pretty cool if it was really lik that. :)

1point

DC 3 years ago

All the time.

0points

#29

German Is A Beautiful Language.

Final score:

197points

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Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

I'd go with "Klugscheißer" (clever-pooper), don't know what that word above is supposed to mean.

52points

Honu 5 years ago

It's a quote from the character, Walter Sobchak, in The Big Lebowski.

9points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

Thats the word they were looking for. Don't know the other one

5points

Janine B. 5 years ago

Or "Korinthenkacker" (currant-pooper), "Kümmelspalter" (caraway splitter), "Erbsenzähler" (pea-counter) and so on. 😂

3points

Blakkur Sverrir 5 years ago

Native German speaker here. Never saw or heared that word

6points

Miri Lee 5 years ago

Neither

1point

Martha Meyer 5 years ago

That's a made up nonsense wore, not actual German.

3points

AJu 5 years ago

That's not a German word, sorry

2points

SykesDaMan 5 years ago

We need this in every language that is... But not so much on most Internet comment sections, people are wrong AND smug about it!

1point

Pandola 5 years ago

That's the point of all this article ladies and gentlmen, IF ONLY I COULD SAY IT! If you are not introduced properly to this languagge and at a young age it's nearly impossible to speak it clearly and understand it. Let's be honest. All my friends who speak well German have started in the family as children...

1point

JuJu 5 years ago

Sorry, but no.

1point

Brianna Hilllman 2 years ago

That word isn't even real, it is fake. But you can say, du bist nicht falsch, du bist nur ein arschloch

0points

J G 5 years ago

Or ... backpfeifengesicht: a face in need of having a fist stuck in it.

0points

Nigel Rodgers 5 years ago

I my Lang it's "other yesterday" and "spent tomorrow"

0points

#30

When German Language Was Only For The Brave.

Final score:

194points

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True Blue 5 years ago

Hahahahahahahaha lord it's true

35points

Wolfblood Fanatic 5 years ago

true.

3points

charlotte the great 5 years ago

i

0points

Yugan Talovich 5 years ago

Try Russian.

0points

Janine B. 5 years ago

I did. It's pretty hard, too.

0points

Pandola 5 years ago

German über alles

0points

#31

Literal Translations

Final score:

192points

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Anna Brandigi 8 years ago

Well, they're not wrong

85points

Kevin Schrader 8 years ago

They are... drum set would be "Hit Stuff".

12points

Yannick 8 years ago

Its more like drive wheel instead of go wheel

12points

Daria B 8 years ago

How else do you call that snail if not "naked snail"? Is it "homeless snail"? Now I'm curious.

7points

Bender 8 years ago

slug. just goes to prove that English is actually the language that has a word for everything.

1point

Samantha 8 years ago

Anti Baby Pill has to be the funniest in that whole list. LOL

7points

Bender 8 years ago

in Serbia we also say it like that. and "naked snail" is also widely popular. :)

2points

Julia NotMyLastname 8 years ago

See? German words MAKE SENSE

6points

Mac's Meadow Markus Drendel 8 years ago

You forgot "firething"! "Feuerzeug" means "lighter"!!!!! Essential!

5points

Lelia Ungureanu 8 years ago

Wow, glowing pear ... actually, german is a pretty straightforward language

4points

Santhe van der Meulen 5 years ago

it is the same in Dutch: gloeilamp

0points

Cat Meow 8 years ago

Now you know what you need to call the pill when a pro-lifer is around...

4points

Notchimine Mette 8 years ago

Literal translation of Skunk in Afrikaans: Mouse Dog (muishond) hahaha!

3points

Monday 5 years ago

don't forget the "step-quitely" (trapsuutjie)- chameleon

2points

Ela Pink 8 years ago

I've been living in Germany for the past few years and I am still struggling with grammar and vocabulary. What actually surprised me was the fact that they barely use neologisms, especially for medicine areas. For example, a dermatologist is called skin doctor, a gynecologist, women doctor, ophthalmologist, eye doctor and so on..i come from romania. I've never heard before someone literally saying that she is going to a women doctor...

3points

Nela Rothenbach 8 years ago

Well, actually we do have the words Gynäkologe, Dermatologe and so on....we're just lazy XD

7points

#32

Tja

Final score:

191points

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Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

well...

36points

Ian Koch 5 years ago

OR NO BREAD IN THE HOUSE.

2points

Philler Space 5 years ago

The English equivalent is "2020."

15points

Markus Holstein 5 years ago

Apocalypse, nuclear war - yeah, fine. But NO BREAD?!? That's a catastrophe!

14points

Princess Procrastination 5 years ago

NOOO NOT THE BREAD *breaks down and starts uncontrollably sobbing*

8points

JuJu 5 years ago

If you stretch the a, you have another billion meanings

4points

lia minou 5 years ago

my fav is Papperlapapp! I use it quite often and im not native ♥️

2points

Lauren Brandon 5 years ago

What does papperlapapp mean??

0points

NoNameGames __ 5 years ago

No bread in the house lol

2points

Rainbow Panda 5 years ago

WHERE ARE MY BAGUETTES? 😭

1point

Fabian K 4 years ago

Tja das stimmt haha

0points

Sophia Graubart 5 years ago

english equivalent: f**k

0points

Valley Johnson 5 years ago

Foul blucar

0points

#33

About Time!

Final score:

185points

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Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

When you least expect it

27points

The Hufflepuff Bookworm 5 years ago

Why is English the American flag not the English flag?🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

1point

Erwin Dillinger 5 years ago

But you can also use the angry version UNVERZÜGLICH!

1point

John Doe AKA "READ MY DAMN COMMENT OR REPLY BEFORE YOU DISLIKE!" 5 years ago

Hey, to that guy who was complaining about Mexico representing the Spanish language while they used the UK for English, they reversed it.

1point

Cupcake168 5 years ago

Sofocht!

1point

Ian Koch 5 years ago

Sofort.

0points

Kopf Los 5 years ago

sofort...zac zac

0points

Pandola 5 years ago

incredible...

0points

#34

When German Language Was So Logical That It Confused You.

Final score:

184points

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Giorgio Prodoti 5 years ago

in Italian also more or less

23points

Nadia Novik 5 years ago

In Italian it's "the 'other' yesterday"! :D

4points

Saint Thomas 5 years ago

Also in french : "après-demain" (after tomorrow) and "avant-hier" (before yesterday)

1point

Cynner 5 years ago

Also in Dutch

1point

Mary Peace 5 years ago

So the German and the Italian versions seem easier than the English, though I don't like to admit it. Sometimes English seems so long-winded.

1point

Pandola 5 years ago

L'altroieri e dopodomani, io ho dovuto studiare tedesco da ragazzina xchè ho vissuto in Trentino e parallelamente x farci capire meglio la grammatica e le varie declinazioni a volte ci facevano esempi in latino...è stata molto dura. Per me l'inglese è quasi come l'italiano ma col tedesco non sono riuscita a rompere il ghiaccio, mi faceva senso sentire la pronuncia...anni dopo ho studiato un anno di cinese a Ca' Foscari, Venezia e ho fatto meno fatica.

1point

Peter Smith 5 years ago

Ereyesterday (the day before yesterday) and overmorrow (the day after tomorrow) are the archaic English versions.

9points

Vaida Kuodytė 5 years ago

Ereyesterday and overmorrow need to come back.

2points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

I was SO confused learning english has no word for these. Vorgestern, Übermorgen. And you can even go on. Über über über morgen would be .... the day after the day after tomorrow... I hope the english translation is right. It sounds too complicated.

2points

Peter Smith 5 years ago

We do. They are ereyesterday and overmorrow. They are just not really in use anymore.

1point

Marcos Vitor Amaral Silva 5 years ago

In portuguese too!

2points

Laugh or not 5 years ago

Same in French and Spanish more or less. Sorry, English language, you are alone on this one.

2points

WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago

Dutch: "eergisteren" and "overmorgen"

2points

Ellen Moana Skarstad 5 years ago

Also in Norwegian

1point

Cindy Crowell 5 years ago

Japanese has words for those as well

1point

Jan Lundström 5 years ago

Also in Swedish

1point

#35

Dear People Learning German...

Final score:

182points

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Monday 5 years ago

Ah yes, I too find the weather very gay today.

34points

Kate 5 years ago

Oh great, would you look at that. It’s raining men. Hallelujah.

16points

The Hufflepuff Bookworm 5 years ago

☁️☁️ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

3points

the wolf den 5 years ago

THE RAIN WILL MAKE YOU GAY!!!

2points

NMN 5 years ago

Accents have meaning people. Don't just remove them and expect it to be the same word

6points

Colin L 5 years ago

French: un baiser (noun: a kiss), baiser (verb: to f**k).

2points

Janine B. 5 years ago

A Baiser is something sweet in Germany, a meringue. I always thought it was a French word because it sounds like one. 😂

0points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

That Jane Austen reference

2points

Lathari 5 years ago

Näinkö minä? = Did I see? Nainko minä? = Do I marry/have sex? Finnish...

1point

me ??? 4 years ago

If you use B instead of ß: weiß=white weib=a degrading way of saying woman

0points

Fred and George Weasley 5 years ago

my heart is trousers lmao

0points

Fire Breathing Queen 5 years ago

The weather is so gay it's raining women from rainbows

0points

Andrew 5 years ago

In Chinese too, shi with tone 2, aka tone coming from low to high-ish (don't know how to explain) and shi, which is tone 3, too lazy to explain again, just use Google Translate. The one in tone 2 can mean something that is made of stone (adjective), but tone 3 means sh*t.

0points

Rhys Tal Cernunnos 5 years ago

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Yes... what I just typed is an actual English sentence. German is beautiful and not nearly as confusing as English.

0points

#36

Funny German Language

Final score:

179points

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Cat Meow 8 years ago

Someone count the points please. I'm curious. (I really don't play Scrabble... XD)

38points

John 8 years ago

The letters alone are worth 54 points. Of course, you only get 7 letters at a time so you'd have to extend existing words, meaning most of the letters would get counted several times. Plus the extra 35 points every time you used all your letters. Plus any modifiers. I'd estimate ~ 450+ pts. Downside, there are over 30 letters in the word and a board is only 15 across.

19points

Kipper Mcgee 8 years ago

Cant. Too big for my board :(

4points

brukernavn340 5 years ago (edited)

The letters are valued based on how common they are in their respective languages. So one cannon use points based on English Scrabble for German.

3points

Jennifer Di Napoli 8 years ago

In Scrubble you have to write down words, crossing them with other words and the playing board has the right dimension to cross normal length words, but German language has many super long words and it could be difficult to find the place for them on the playing board 😂

3points

Anna Maske 8 years ago

I´m german and this is my favourite word: Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitänswitwenrentenformular means: a form for the pension for a widow of a captain, who conn a steamer on the Donau I honestly love my language ^.^

8points

Amber Lyon 8 years ago

it translates to floor grinding machine rental buisness

4points

Amanda Panda 8 years ago

Translation: Home Depot

4points

ADHORTATOR 8 years ago

portable grinder floor renovation rental

1point

Amber Lyon 8 years ago

it translates to floor grinding machine rental buisiness

2points

Edeltraud Dent 8 years ago

That's exactly why we love playing scrabble. So many opportunities to score high points and get rid of the last letters 😀

1point

Bender 8 years ago

haha, my god :D can we get a translation?

1point

Enric Albi 8 years ago

Ich liebe Deutsch. Hou can describe every little think within one Word: how to sell a mashine? Lets take a look at the Fussbodenschleifmaschinenverleihfachgeschäftleitererfolgsverkaufsstrategiekozepthandbuchseite 1

1point

Pedro Becker 8 years ago

That's four words in english, mashed up together! o.O Probably doesn't fit on a regular-sized Scrabble board... XD 2017-feb-8...b62072.jpg

1point

AnimalsRuleHumansDrool 4 years ago

Flooring sanding machine rental.

0points

#37

German Language Jokes

Final score:

178points

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Vicky Zar 5 years ago

Wouldn't it be just Zusammengehörigkeit?

37points

Sascha Dix 5 years ago

You're right. It's Zusammengehörigkeit

7points

Robert Mayer 2 years ago

Zusammenhalt!

0points

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François Carré 5 years ago

I remember that "pollution" is "Umweltverschmutzung" and "unemployment" is "Arbeitlosigkeit". And "superstition" is "Aberglaubigkeit".

0points

PhantomBuni 5 years ago

How do you get a sentence in?

0points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

What du you mean?

1point

#38

German Grammar Struggle

Final score:

173points

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VeryDarkMatter 5 years ago

try finnish and you will cry

4points

Jo Choto 5 years ago

Oh that's nothing. You should see how Icelandic does it.

2points

Lievetje 5 years ago

You made me wondering. Please explain!

0points

Radek Suski 5 years ago

Have you seen the same for Slavic languages?

2points

DaVo 5 years ago

This is the easy bit....

2points

Galen Crayn 5 years ago

in latin you have 3 more - ablativ, vocativ and locativ...

1point

lara 5 years ago

The hardest language: Chinese, they have no tenses. It is inflection that determines tense. German has the hardest grammar, English the second hardest. If you master English grammar you have no trouble with Russian, you are just learning the vocabulary. Being able to master English grammar gives you one up on leaning German.

1point

Anamaria Mazer de Toledo 5 years ago

Sounds fun ! I'll start right now lmao

0points

Christophe Beunens 5 years ago

After 20 years in Germany, I am still confused about these "transexual" cases : Wo ist DIE Burg : Where is THE castle? - Ich war in DER burg : I was in THE castle...

1point

Lievetje 5 years ago

I thought it was the "in" that changes it.

0points

Libby Eykelenburg 5 years ago

Yep this was the first lesson I took in my less than stellar studies of the German language. Would you believe that I NEVER PUT THE CORRECT BLOODY der die das den in a sentence from that point on.

0points

danielw 5 years ago

Isn't latin like the worst? I remember watching as a substitute teacher was practicing his latin conjugation between classes. It took up most the three big a*s white boards in the room and his board-writing was tiny.

0points

Binary Finary 5 years ago

And for even more use Czech, they have three more cases :)

0points

Slune 5 years ago

Yeh, beautiful language but unfortunately so difficult to learn. So I know some sentences and lot of animals, what make no sense but I like the words. I'm great at the Zoo!:))

0points

#39

Funny German Language

Final score:

171points

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Tiny Dynamine 8 years ago

For your information, German isn't shouted aggressively by Germans at all. We imply that from the second world war because of how the Gestapo were. If you say the above German word normally, it sounds quite nice.

154points

Emma Vink 8 years ago

I'm bilingual Afrikaans so I can almost relate...it is the gluttral sounds which English speakers don't know that sound harsh in Germanic based languages.

22points

Lucy Bell 8 years ago

The fact that the face for the German speaking character looks so angry let's you to believe that it needs to be spoken aggressively, which it doesn't, of course.

11points

SylvaCrow 8 years ago

As a non German, I think the joke is that German words sound aggressive to non native speakers, not that we actually think Germans are constantly shouting. I actually like the sound of German, I think it's unique.

10points

Andreja Kozmelj 8 years ago

I completely agree. In fact to me (not a native to any of the languages above) Schmetterling sounds far more tender and gentle (like a butterfly) than any other word above. Another one: German language wins by far at naming the most importaint feeling of them all - "die Liebe" to me expresses much more tenderness than the word for love in any other language I know.

9points

Caroline Murphy 8 years ago

I like a lot of German bands and when I watch interviews with them speaking in German they are generally soft-spoken.

6points

Krásnoočko Zelené 5 years ago

Thank you. Not German but I like the language very much and really hate this stupid "Hitler shouted angrily so that is how german sounds" stereotype. German is actually very soft language, especially compared to my native tongue.

3points

Hugo Kwame Coles 5 years ago

When I use my Flemish accent it sounds rather nice

1point

Marion Jansie 8 years ago

A met a German guy at a festival who told us that German isn't German, but just Dutch with a bad accent if it wasn't shouted 🤣

1point

Nicolas J. Redfox 9 months ago

also, it literally translates to "smashling" because it's very small and flaps it's wings really hard like smashing the air. you can actually feel the gust when one lands on your arm.

0points

yamiimax 2 years ago

Verstehe es einfach nicht Handschuhe macht Sinn aber Schmetterling gar nicht haha

0points

Patrice Bourget 3 years ago

A lot of people think german is "R"s all over which would make it even more guttural, but what I'm realizing in my learning is that a lot of these "R" are mute. For instance, the word "Lehrer" is pronounced "Leh-ruh" which makes it much easier on the palate as you chain syllables that end in "R".

0points

MantisKeeper 5 years ago

this is just a meme

0points

Gryzelda Pazurkiewicz 5 years ago

You do realise that this is a joke, right? The legendary German sense of humour never fails :D

0points

Philler Space 5 years ago

Whoa...not so loud, bro!

0points

Jim Sterrett 7 years ago

German sounds like someone is drunk and choking but still trying to have a conversation

0points

Sigrid Vinter 8 years ago

I'm always surprised when I hear Germans speak. They sound to me like they are making a caricature of German .. But they are just speaking their mother tongue! Sorry to say

0points

Diletta Liverani 8 years ago

no it doesn't

0points

Rainclouds Radio 5 years ago

Schmetterling sounds like a kind of weapon

-1point

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Daniela Klatt 8 years ago

Quatsch, Schmetterling wird allgemein erfreut und lächelnd ausgesprochen. Manchmal auch verwundert, denn man sieht sich nicht mehr so häufig wie früher.

7points

Slune 5 years ago

Such weich ausgesprochen tönt es harter als die anderen Sprachen.

0points

Mr Pow! Pow! 8 years ago

Butterfly... Butter + fly... It's not cute at all !

4points

DannyBananyGoesWild 8 years ago

I've been reading this b******t for years now, seriously internet, come up with something fresh!

3points

Raphael Silva 8 years ago

Holy cow that is confusing for Portuguese. Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly. Mariposa is Portuguese for moth. In Portuguese we say borboleta for butterfly.

3points

NMN 5 years ago

As far as I remember mariposa is for both butterflies and moths in Spanish btw. And the collective of borboleta is panapaná

1point

Reinhard Doberstein 8 years ago

I like schmetterling!

3points

Arty 8 years ago

what's interesting is that any of these European language have very different terms for the same animal

2points

Ellen Moana Skarstad 5 years ago

Norwegian= sommerfugl (summer bird)

1point

Diletta Liverani 8 years ago

no it does not

1point

Helena Andrea Bosch Berth 8 years ago

That's true. I hear that a lot and I speak Dutch! 😂 Actually, German is a beautiful and romantic language to me (I've watched romance in German, that's how I learned it)

1point

#40

1. When German Language Nailed It.

Final score:

170points

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Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

Never ever in my quite long life have I heard anybody use that word lol.

35points

danielw 5 years ago

I wouldn't take grammar advice from a guy whose account name appears to be "butt-hole-bread-blog" Like... I don't even want to know.

2points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

BUT have you heard anything else that might describe this?

1point

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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago

There's always time for things to change!

0points

pebs 5 years ago

Well in Italy it's called "trombamico/a", which is even more explicit.

1point

DC 3 years ago

Kinkmate it a great english word for this. If you ... aren't really friends (you can, but don't need to), but into the same weird adult games.

0points

tw _fan 5 years ago

You actually that Freundschaft Plus here which would mean friendship plus

0points

David Timmons 5 years ago

English: f*ckbuddy.

0points

Christel Nellemann 5 years ago

Die sexfreundin

0points

Markus Holstein 5 years ago

We don't beat around the bush. Birth control pill = "Antibabypille"

0points

Max L. 5 years ago

Wow, that’s smart !

0points

#41

When Animals Sounded Way Cuter In German. Like Raccoon.

Final score:

165points

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Femme Finn 5 years ago

Whoa! Same in Finnish, pesukarhu. I guess it comes directly from German.

18points

Laugh or not 5 years ago

Raton-laveur in French: washing little rat.

6points

Pandola 5 years ago

like in Italian, orsetto lavatore or procione

5points

Makajha Banjjjak 5 years ago

Laundry raccoon in Polish 😂 - szop pracz

4points

Josh Tall 5 years ago

Japanese, same "araiguma" bear that washes hands

4points

Fly Girl 5 years ago

In Chinese as well, 浣熊, 浣 means wash, and 熊 means bear.

2points

JensenDK 5 years ago

Same in Danish: Vaskebjørn

3points

Merty Robinson 5 years ago

Also a washing bear ( tvättbjörn) in Swedish-they wash food before eating it.

3points

lia minou 5 years ago

Same in Slovak

2points

Martine 5 years ago

Wasbeer in Dutch

2points

Viktor Feurer 5 years ago (edited)

same in Hungarian: Mosómedve

2points

#42

Everytime

Final score:

163points

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Kateryna 5 years ago

All of which mean "the"

30points

Pandola 5 years ago

Isn't it lovely to speak English? Thank God I don't need to study German anymore...

5points

PeachPossum 5 years ago

The film is Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock. If anybody should know which article to choose, it would be Sandra Bullock: Her mother was German.

0points

Paulina 5 years ago

At least you don't have to inflect by cases pretty much every word 🤷‍♀️ (hello, Polish, Russian, Hungarian speakers 😁)

0points

AflyingSquirrel 5 years ago

also me deciding have has had

0points

Maia Metz-Tolliver 5 years ago

Yeah, this pretty much illustrates what I look like taking any German test ever.

0points

#43

When German Language Showed That Germans Have A Strange Relationship To Their Tools. Or Their Mothers

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159points

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DforDorothy 5 years ago

In Hungarian also...

18points

Katerina Huskova 5 years ago

In Czech too

5points

Levity Camilleri 5 years ago

And its children are screws???

4points

I H 5 years ago

No "Schrauben"

0points

Inga Viviane 5 years ago

A mom because she holds everything together<3

4points

Hugh Walter 5 years ago

Technically correct; in English engineering it is the 'female' part of two interacting parts, the bolt (or threaded rod) being the 'male' for obvious reasons which predate religious prudery!

2points

Marcos Vitor Amaral Silva 5 years ago

In Brazilian Portuguese is "female pig".

2points

Phaedra Kalis 5 years ago

mom, am I adopted?

1point

C Pryce 5 years ago

We call connections/connectors "male" and "female" in English (DIY, cabling, etc)!

1point

Max L. 5 years ago

Funny, we italians all refer to females .. but any kind of receiving socket.

1point

Ginger Méndez 5 years ago

Same in Spanish!

0points

Caroline Castendijk 5 years ago

No! It’s called ‘Nuß’ (Nut in English). In Dutch it’s called ‘moer’ which is an old Dutch abbreviation of ‘Moeder’ (Mother in English)

1point

Christian Feilert 5 years ago

It's actually Mutter.

0points

Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

It keeps everything tightly together, you know, like a mother does in any stereotypical family does.

1point

#44

German Language

Final score:

152points

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Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

Emphasis on the first syllable- possible grave bodily harm court case coming your way, emphasize the last part and you're good.

34points

Pandola 5 years ago

you are very good...

3points

Stephanie Did It 5 years ago

In English, to build a structure is to "raise" it. To destroy the structure is To "raze" it.

3points

Nubis Knight 5 years ago

But they are different in present perfect etc: "er wurde umgefahren" and "er wurde umfahren".

1point

Jenny McKeown 5 years ago

These are passive constructions not perfect and I'm not convinced you can use the second one with nominative (may be wrong there though...)

0points

Billy Maguire 3 years ago

Don't worry, you'll know it when it happens.

0points

Michael Capriola Jr. 5 years ago (edited)

sort of like read and read, or lead and lead, or your and you're, hour or our, or there their they're, or .... well, you get the picture.

0points

Markus Holstein 5 years ago

"Haare wachsen lassen" = letting your hair grow "Haare wachsen lassen" = getting your hair waxed

0points

Bex Hallihan 5 years ago

So rather like flammable and inflammable...

0points

Richard Haven 5 years ago

And they couldn't be bothered to put diacriticals on these?

0points

Jenny McKeown 5 years ago

Where would you put a diacritic? The only option in German is an umlaut which would change the sound of the word. There are plenty of weird things in most languages - like the English flammable/inflammable or quite - meaning both very and a little but depending on context.

1point

#45

German Is Such A Beautiful Language.

Final score:

151points

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Reginald Joseph 5 years ago

Stab mixer=they aren't wrong

32points

Martha Meyer 5 years ago

Stab means wand/stick in German.

14points

Dyvekedatingdogs 5 years ago

It refers to the shape of a staff, same in Norwegian where we call it stav mikser 😊

1point

Connie Martin 5 years ago

On a side note, I have that stabmixer and it doesn't work very well.

1point

Peko 5 years ago

Have you tried stabbing someone with it?

2points

Sapphire Dragon 3 years ago (edited)

Stab mixer… beautiful.🥲

0points

Santhe van der Meulen 5 years ago

It is the same in Dutch: staafmixer. (it means stick mixer btw)

0points

Paul Punzer 5 years ago

it´s called "zauberstab" to. it means "Magic wand".

0points

Dyvekedatingdogs 5 years ago

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0points

Tien 5 years ago

Pretty mutch the same in Dutch, staafmixer. Staaf means rod/stick

0points

#46

Everything!

Final score:

149points

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Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

hip-gold

15points

Analyn Lahr 5 years ago

I got some of that.

1point

Reginald Joseph 5 years ago

Ah, that is lovely.

1point

DogMatic 5 years ago

I'm rich!

0points

#47

Funny German Language

Final score:

146points

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Bianca Gue 8 years ago

English is for the lazy people. :-P

89points

Basia Biskupiak 8 years ago

And still many English people cannot use it correctly...

10points

Caroline Cassano 8 years ago

Duh. We're all obese

8points

Edy B 8 years ago

If you'd have the option to get to work in only 10 minutes instead of one hour each day, which one would you choose? Would you call me lazy if I would take the 10 minutes route every time?

4points

Khadeja 5 years ago

Actually it's really hard to learn. Mostly because every rule has an exception, and an excpetion to that rule. Linguists just honestly make up stuff. For instance: "F makes the 'f' sound. So I called my mom's fone." "That's wrong. It's 'ph'." "But why?" "Idk." "So I went to the pharm." "But that's wrong! It's farm, with an f". Do you get what I mean? They make up tons of stuff all the time :')

3points

BAILEY PANELLI 5 years ago

it really isn't when you think of: I slept like a baby - you woke up multiple times crying? just for an example

3points

Rhys Tal Cernunnos 5 years ago

Have you tried to master the English language? Without Google.... Translate this... Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Yes... that is a complete sentence. We aren't lazy, our language is just some weird Frankenstein mix of all other languages. Good day.

3points

Jim Sterrett 7 years ago

have you not looked at any of the other pictures in this? because pig, spike pig, ocean pig, water pig, pig whale are the heights of creativity?

2points

Henry Cheves 5 years ago

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1point

La La Lynch 5 years ago

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1point

This Guy 4 years ago

Except for the fact that every letter in English pretty sounds however it wants to

0points

John Baker 5 years ago

Neither is a walk in the park for non-native speakers.

0points

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Aga Boo 8 years ago

Check it out in Polish 😉

6points

ninjoun 8 years ago

eastern languages are all awesome. One word can contain time, gender, silgular/plural.. I personally find replying with whole sentence quite disturbing.

2points

Hellysal 8 years ago

Polish - singular: 1. ty (ty jesteś) - you (you are) 2. ciebie/cię (wszystko dla ciebie/widzę cię) - you (all for you/I see you) 3. tobie/ci (powiedziałem tylko tobie/dziękuję ci) - you (I told only you/thank you) 4. in that case same as 2 5. tobą (idę z tobą) - you (I'm coming with you) 6. in that case same as 3 7. in that case same as 1 Polish - plural: 1. wy (wy jesteście) - you (you are) 2. was (widzę was) - you (I see you) 3. wam (dziękuję wam) - you (thank you) 4. in that case same as 2 5. wami (idę z wami) - you (I'm coming with you) 6. in that case same as 2 7. in that case same as 1 But we have plenty of words that are different in all seven points c: Polish (singular/plural): 1. dwójka/dwójki 2. dwójki/dwójek 3. dwójce/dwójkom 4. dwójkę/dwójki 5. dwójką/dwójkami 6. dwójce/dwójkach 7. dwójko/dwójki English meaning: two/twos c:

3points

Michael A B Miller 5 years ago

Greetings, in Polish, or your favorite native language. I find myself a little fascinated by this. So, if I understand you, Polish has seven grammatical cases, approximately like Latin's six, Old Englishes four, Sanskrit's possibly eight and other Indo-European's . . . however many? And I'm guessing that most of these cases are "merged" so that many words are actually the same in their different cases, but for older, more irregular words the archaic system is fully realized? But . . . I'm just wondering when the plural for "twos"("two's" looks right but is probably wrong) would ever come up? Gambling? "When the turn card came up, the TWO's really screwed me." Or "He's totally broke now because he put all his money on the TWOs to win or place." (Horse racing when you bet that your horse will come in first OR second . . . ) Or maybe at a formal dance . . . "The couples waltzed in in their twos." Or any story describing Noah's Ark. Or the Chuck Berry song. "Rockin' in Two by Two!" Close?

0points

Mike Kiefer 8 years ago

Well, German is a polite language ;)

2points

Michael Capriola Jr. 5 years ago

We were better off when English had separate words for you (singular) and you (general). Believe me.

1point

Kik Hejdánková 5 years ago

Czech: ty, ti, tě, tebe, tobě, tebou, vy, vám, vás, vámi :)

1point

Leo Domitrix 5 years ago

Forgot one: Impersonal you (or they) "man", which is where Brits say "one", e.g., "If one runs uphill..." https://angelikasgerman.co.uk/5-ways-to-translate-the-german-word-man/ Best explanation I found

1point

Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

Can I say you to you?

1point

Reinhold Walter 6 years ago

Kann ich du zu dir sagen? Can I say you to you?

1point

Julia NotMyLastname 8 years ago

This actually makes sense. "Du" is just normal, casual, you, while ihr is y'all, and multiple of these are for formal situations

1point

Kate 5 years ago

Du hast...

0points

#48

When German Language Surprised You By Somehow Not Being Accurate Anymore

Final score:

145points

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JuJu 5 years ago

But there is only one that can suck and blow! The famous Heinzelmann.

20points

Claudia Stieble 5 years ago

Es saugt und bläst der Heinzelmann wo Mutti sonst nur saugen kann. Hach, ich liebe Loriot.

2points

John Baker 5 years ago

In English, you may climb a tree that's ready to bear fruit to escape from a bear that's prowling in the orchard, and the fear that the tree may not be able to bear your weight might be more than you can bear. Not that this has any bearing on anything...

1point

Lindy Mac 4 years ago

John Baker: I can bear witness to that.

0points

Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

blasen or Blasen

1point

My O My Premium 5 years ago

A wind instrument is brilliant! "Winde" is an old word for farts. Soooo... fart instruments 😂

-1point

#49

When German Words Looked Like They Have To Be Kidding You

Final score:

143points

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Ray Martin 5 years ago

It's pronounced how it's spelt.

45points

Krásnoočko Zelené 5 years ago

Well, it is in german. But definitely not english. "Z" is pronounced "ts". If you want a "z" sound, that would be written as "s" in certain context.

4points

Russell Ellwardt 5 years ago

Exactly. What's the problem?

2points

Nele Geurden 5 years ago

No! The first thing you pronounce is a t!

0points

Jo Choto 5 years ago

tsu-tsu-tsuRen.

6points

Coronamutant außer Rand und Band 4 years ago

first syllable is stressed, secondary stress on third syllable. First two Us long, third U short

0points

Kate 5 years ago

Su-su-sudio...

5points

Marysue Watches 5 years ago

I see your German and show you my Italian: zuzzurellone!

2points

danielw 5 years ago

Is the difference the shape you make with your fingers? asking for a friend. :) (sorry. couldn't resist.)

1point

Angelo Mascaro 5 years ago

Very easy for the Italians too. We have a fantastic word: "zuzzurellone"

2points

Analyn Lahr 5 years ago

Ok, but what's it mean?

2points

Philler Space 5 years ago

Zu-zu-zuddio

2points

SoozeeQ 5 years ago

Zippedy-doo-da-zippedy-ay.

1point

Michael A B Miller 5 years ago

tsoo-tsoo-tsoo-ren.

2points

Rainbow Panda 5 years ago

My guess: Zu-zuzz-u-ren 🤔

1point

𝕂𝕚𝕥-𝕂𝕒𝕥 5 years ago

*casually sings Mipan Zu Zu Zu* (no ofense-)

1point

#50

Learn German If You Der

Final score:

127points

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Femme Finn 5 years ago

Well when you really think about the word "butterfly", is it a sexy word? Butter. Fly.

34points

SykesDaMan 5 years ago

vdGompe.gif

12points

SoozeeQ 5 years ago

I think it's back to front. It should be "flutter by".

8points

Kate 5 years ago

It should be psychedeliccarpetwingbug, using the German approach.

3points

Patrick Reolon 5 years ago

in swiss german (dialects from german, and just to be clear, each region has it's own swiss-german), we have some words which are endemic, like "Summervogel": literally it means summer-bird, practically it's butterfly or schmetterling...

3points

Mariele Scherzinger 5 years ago

In Danish and in Norwegian, the word for butterfly is "summerfugl". Not in Swedish though. I wonder why...

0points

McKayla Fool Bear 4 years ago

"Ist vat ein shmetterling?" ja, a butterfly. i mean, cream :D....

0points

Michael Capriola Jr. 5 years ago

The invention of butterflies came about like this: "Hey, you got butter on my fly!" "Well, you got a fly jammed into my butter!"

0points

Mariele Scherzinger 5 years ago

Etymology: butterflies love to fly around a butter churn, as they are attracted to the butterfat fermentation. In German, sour cream is called Schmand (or "Schmetten" in Bavaria - which is close to the Czech Republic, where cream is known as "smetana"). Semantics rock!

0points

Elizabeth Molloy 5 years ago

Schmetterling is much more musical, TBH!

0points

#51

Funny German Language

Final score:

104points

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Beatrice Alighieri 8 years ago

Gesundheit

88points

Pedro Becker 8 years ago

bitte!? XD

8points

Bre Goettl 8 years ago

You made me coffee in my popcorn

7points

Dea Hysa 8 years ago

I died xD!!!

0points

Miri Lee 8 years ago

Danke ;-)

0points

Julia Strzelczyk 8 years ago

i was learning this language 6 years. its the only word i remember :c

0points

Claudia Mika 8 years ago

Best comment :D

0points

Bezza Assefa 7 years ago

I am sad to admit that pronouncing this was absolutly no problem for me. 😂

4points

Sofia Lindström 8 years ago

No problem/swedish

2points

Diana CrunChewy Watson 8 years ago

Czech chef chemists on Greek-Chinese passenger ships

2points

Klaus Meyer Arroyo 8 years ago

I'm chilean - german... Done. Hahaha

2points

Sherri Martel 8 years ago

Streichholzschächtelchen

2points

Monday 5 years ago

Why are the comments on this one from 3 years ago?

1point

Radek Suski 5 years ago

Most Germans can't say squirrel. Most English speaking people can't pronounce Eichhörnchen (squirrel) and this kinda amaze me

1point

Prime Underdog 7 years ago

You native english speakers won`t ever pronounce that right XD

1point

Dave Hovi 8 years ago

you mean the Czechoslovakian chemist on a Greek-Chinese passenger ship?

1point

#52

Funny German Language

Final score:

90points

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Cat Meow 8 years ago

Plenty or opportunities to use that one...

9points

Sid Martin 8 years ago

Fits for Trump, or is it Drumpf?

0points

Janine B. 5 years ago

Which has German ancestors. Sad but true. 😭

0points

Daniela Basic 8 years ago

one of my favourite sayings :D

0points

#53

Funny German Language

Final score:

86points

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Sarah Schmidt 8 years ago

A few years ago I saw a video about how english sounds to non-english speakers. Is there a video like that about the german language? Do we really sound that bad? I really want to know!

26points

Sophia Cai 7 years ago

I have a classmate who randomly shouts German words in random classes. Like we could be taking a math lesson and then suddenly... "KUGELSCHREIBER!" It's ridiculous.

6points

Nele Leit-Teetlaus 8 years ago

German is easily recognizable because of its specific sound but I personaly do not think it sounds angry or sth, it's just different.

3points

Fernando 5 years ago

In Spain, people uses to think that German people speak like if they are always angry but when they hear someone speaking German (something quite usual in Mallorca or Canary islands), they don't have that sensation. They just don't know which language they are hearing.

0points

doneisdone 5 years ago

No I love listening to people speak German. I've never thought it sounded angry.

0points

Fadzilah Din 8 years ago

I have a a few German friends. No, they don't sound bad at all

0points

Tiger Lily 8 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo0Hsx-yHiI meant to be humorous, of course.

0points

Adler Eon 8 years ago

Depends. It's my understanding that there are diferent accents among germany. One of these accents it's the one we make fun of

0points

Nela Rothenbach 8 years ago

Wer suchet, der findet ;-) There are some videos on YouTube

0points

Prime Underdog 7 years ago

Ja wir klingen für die, die Englisch reden immer als wollten wir jemanden fressen XD und für das Klischee: SCHNITZEL! PANZERKAMPFWAGEN! SAUERKRAUT!

-2points

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Santi Bunjamin 8 years ago

There is another extreme - Swabian sounds sort of cute, so even when they are angry, you can't really take them seriously. I am only half jesting.

3points

Anna Brandigi 8 years ago

I can only count to 10 in german if I'm screaming

3points

Anna Brandigi 8 years ago

EIN ZWEI DREI

2points

katya vollendirberungkonigshaus 8 years ago

nonsense. americans can be such sissies and so entitled. you know, everything revolves around them. can't handle anything that isn't 'them'.

-1point

katya vollendirberungkonigshaus 8 years ago

just an idiom from ...which? part of germany? i never heard that.

-2points

#54

Funny German Language

Final score:

85points

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YsaPur 8 years ago

- Why? - Because sausage.

41points

Jana Komankova 8 years ago

das ist mir Wurst

5points

Sigrid Vinter 8 years ago

In Danish it's an earthworm that has two ends :-D

1point

DC 3 years ago

Das ist falsch. Die Wurst hat unendlich viele infinitesimal kleine Partialenden.

0points

DC 5 years ago

From the outside, it might seem germans are obsessed with Wurst. Sadly, from the inside it looks even worse ... that's the wurst part.

0points

Diana Amberg 8 years ago

French has something similar-I think it was with bananas

0points

Kevin Schrader 8 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=582FrJaDMOk

0points

Siddhi 8 years ago

Actually we do say "Alles hat einmal ein Ende." (literally: everything has once an end) which is 'All good things must come to an end'. The "Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei" is just a funny regional idiom used.

0points

Talia Johnson 8 years ago

love how everything comes back to sausages. A nation after my own heart.

0points

Daria B 8 years ago

In Croatian we have the same saying. But usually only pre-teens/early teenagers use it. But maybe not anymore. I've got to update myself on recent youth trends.

0points

Shari H 8 years ago

I feel like Oberon the wolfhound would love Germans.

0points

#55

Funny German Language

Final score:

85points

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Dixon's Mama 8 years ago

Love it!

14points

Elle C. Gies 8 years ago

In east Germany it was Wunschkindpille, desired child pill

4points

Daria B 8 years ago

I prefer that one, to be honest. The "anti-baby" expression exists also in Croatian and I never use it because it sounds so... Cruel. We're not against babies, we just wanna be in control of our life choices and our bodies.... So I insist on saying "contraception".

3points

Natalia Garcia 5 years ago

Hate it

1point

Mayumi Hashimoto 8 years ago

So straightforward😂

1point

Eva Seljan 8 years ago

Birth control is equally funny if youre not used to hearing it

1point

Michał Jastrzębski 5 years ago

...well its not incorrect.

0points

Winter 6 years ago

Yes yes yes XD

0points

Hans 8 years ago

Be very afraid that a mobile phone is called a "Handy". Well, Mobiltelefon works, but Handy is the general term. Uhg...

0points

Koko Sempai 8 years ago

hahah

0points

#56

Funny German Language

Final score:

76points

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M. Schweitzer 8 years ago

So true - auch für uns!

12points

Dolevaal 5 years ago

Und teilweise variiert das auch in Deutschland. Ich (aus NRW) war leicht verwirrt als ich gemerkt habe das unser "Viertel vor Zwei" in Thüringen teils "Dreiviertel Eins" genannt wird ;D

1point

Luise Kirsten 8 years ago

Actually the eastern Germans use "three-quarter, not the southern ones

2points

Salma Abidi 8 years ago

austrians use it too ;)

1point

Miri Lee 5 years ago

Living in the south and yes they do use "viertel" and "dreiviertel"

0points

Jan-Fred Lu 8 years ago

Southern ones too.

0points

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

The way south and east say it is SO confusing

0points

Ray Heap 5 years ago (edited)

Fünfnachdreiviertelsechse.... five past three quarters to six, 5:50 or 17:50, or also for instance: Zehnabviertelzehn, ten minutes past quarter past ten if you really want to confuse the Pigprussians, Saupreiß´n.

0points

Bezza Adugna 8 years ago

It is sad that what he is talking about is normal for me.

0points

Viktoria Zellner 8 years ago

ui, jetzt muss ich aber schluss machen hier - schon 3 vor dreiviertel-11. *hihi*

0points

Siddhi 8 years ago

"Five past halfway to six" = "Fünf (Minuten) nach halb sechs." = 5:35 (or 17:35). "three-quarters eight" = 7:45 => one clock remains of 4x quarters (15 minutes each quarter, for those that have trouble with time) Therefor 3 quarters are 45 minutes to 8, which means it is 7:45.

0points

Corinna Weichold 8 years ago

Ach was! Quarter - half - three-quarter. You just have to see the clock as a (piece of) cake - easy as pie! *badumm tzz :D

0points

Clio Stronk 8 years ago

In the Netherlands we also say '5 past half six', but our half six is 6 minus 30 minutes and in English half six is 6 plus 30 minutes. When speaking to a non-Dutch speaker I always say 17.35 hrs

0points

Hellysal 8 years ago

It was weird then I remembered we also say the time like that in Polish sometimes, and also not even adding the exact hour! "Która godzina?" ("What time is it?") - "Pięć po wpół do" ("Five past half to") and you have to be aware of approximate hour or ask again "wpół do której?" ("half to what (or which, I'm not sure here) ?")

0points

#57

Funny German Language

Final score:

69points

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Agnieszka Janiszewska 8 years ago

try polish....

35points

Amal Derbeli 8 years ago

Hmm ! Try arabic 😂😂

4points

Hellysal 8 years ago

at least we don't add it before EVERY WORD ;D

2points

Julia Strzelczyk 8 years ago

we have really beautiful language i think xD

1point

Bre Goettl 8 years ago

nO. F**K THAT

1point

Cheesybeansy 8 years ago

Conjugations don't really exist in English. im surprised we even have a word for it!

2points

Raphael Silva 8 years ago

Every other language pretty much has this...English is just lazy!

1point

Thor Sten 8 years ago

*simple

0points

Daria B 8 years ago

Italian has a lot more articles and article-related grammar rules. As fore grammar cases, try any Slavic language.

1point

Paula Neira Pardo 6 years ago

I gotta say, English is almost the only one (if not the only one) that doesn’t change its articles.

0points

Sophia Cai 7 years ago

Try Chinese. Words are ridiculously hard to write. Even for me, and it's my native language. Well kind of cuz I'm bilingual and stuff.

0points

Bezza Adugna 8 years ago

Ugh! I hated these articles in school! It's just stupid!

0points

Sabina Bec 8 years ago

Or any other slavic language...

0points

TroubledPotato 8 years ago

And people say English is hard to learn...

0points

mcami 8 years ago

From another POV: English articles 🤦🏻‍♀️

0points

#58

Funny German Language

Final score:

67points

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Gunnar Schreck 8 years ago

Correct translation is "Wissenschaft". This here would translate into "Natural Sciences"

76points

Anne Moe 8 years ago

This is what I find so charming about germans :) You always are so particular (correct), and very nice about it too :)

12points

Emma Vink 8 years ago

Afrikaans is so similar 😊 Science is weetenskap and natuurweetenskappe is natural sciences.

2points

Alice Kraatz 6 years ago

also, they can take off the "en" , that would translate into earth sciencES, which, unless you live in the UK, is not correct. #germangrammarsucks

0points

Santa Maria 8 years ago

Nope, "Naturwissenschaften" is correct. "Wissenschaft" is studies.

-1point

Ayra 8 years ago

I think the really important thing is that "Wissenschaften" directly translates to "Wisdom making" (Wissen = Wisdom or Knowledge, -schaften coming from schaffen = make/ do/create) and I think that's beautiful ^_^

0points

Joshua Christensen 8 years ago

Naturvidenskab in Danish

0points

Joshua Christensen 8 years ago

Danish: Naturvidenskab

0points

Chrisni Grobler 8 years ago

Afrikaans: Natuurwetenskap - Natural science.

0points

Caroline Andersen 8 years ago

Norwegian: NATURVITENSKAP!

0points

Angie Verhaegen 8 years ago

Dutch: natuurwetenschappen of wetenschap. . Also the same...

0points

Kim Paulus 8 years ago

Dutch: natuurwetenschap

0points

#59

Funny German Language

Final score:

65points

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Amanda Panda 8 years ago

As in the tree?

19points

Arty 8 years ago

literally "monkey bread tree"

15points

Jyri Hakola 8 years ago

And thanks for germans it's also "apinanleipäpuu" (monkey's bread tree) in Finnish language..

3points

Nela Rothenbach 8 years ago

I apologize in the name of all Germans. But I'm still laughing about this

0points

Anna Brandigi 8 years ago

what?

3points

Clio Stronk 8 years ago

In Dutch it is also 'Apenbroodboom'

2points

Jo Choto 5 years ago

To be fair, in Africa we also call the baobab the monkey bread tree, which is what that means in German.

1point

Marsy Channel 8 years ago

Hungarian: Majomkenyérfa :p

1point

Siddhi 8 years ago

Yet we also use Baobab in German.

1point

Martine 5 years ago

Dutch: apenbroodboom

0points

Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

ape-bread-tree

0points

Chayut Jirakhajonkul 6 years ago

Monkey bread Tree? 😂😂😂

0points

#60

Funny German Language

Final score:

61points

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Little Menace 8 years ago

The Holzweg one is a favourite of mine because you can tell where it's from. In Germany [and probably other places], there are paths through the forest that lead nowhere apart from a big pile of felled wood, stored there by the woodcutters. So if you end up at a dead end staring at a pile of wood, you are on the wood-way. I.e the wrong path.

32points

Kevin Schrader 8 years ago

I have a saying myself that literally translates to: "Being consequent means even going the woodways to the end."

4points

Norbert Asschert 8 years ago

Ich glaub Ich spinne, does not translate to 'I think I spider' but to 'I believe I'm spinning wool'

7points

Janice Foster 8 years ago

I love "jump over your shadow" and "Holla, the woodfairy"

4points

Denis Brown 8 years ago

Ich glaube ich spinne (i think i am dreaming / i am going crazy) does not mean "i think i spider", but "I think i spin" (like old fashioned cloth spinning).

3points

Tigerman Tony 8 years ago

My lovely mister singing club...mein lieber Herr(en) Gesangs Verein

2points

Monday 5 years ago

I get the feeling that sausages are very important

1point

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

"Sie hatte einen Kreislaufzusammenbruch" (she fainted) is not wrong but we use "in Ohnmacht fallen" or "ohnmächtig werden" more often

1point

Vicky Zar 5 years ago

"Nun haben wir den Salat" is more used like "Now you've done it"

1point

Birte Schieder 8 years ago

You are very first cream!

1point

Diana Amberg 8 years ago

Spinnen several meanings - it also refers to yarning / creating yarn/thread on an oldfashioned wheel. Maybe that makes more sense. We alsosay Du hast einen Vogel - you are a bird - meaning someone is crazy/said sth crazy/did sth crazy

1point

#61

Funny German Language

Final score:

61points

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Anna Brandigi 8 years ago

start saying dicc instead of thicc

19points

JuJu 5 years ago

Wait till you see our Dickmanns...

1point

Sarah Declerck 8 years ago

I think this is dutch though

1point

Lisa Freudenthaler 8 years ago

No that is actually german :)

4points

Nathalie Herickx 8 years ago

No its german, in dutch it would be dik :)

1point

Mandy Heidstra 8 years ago

You are (half) right. 'Gratis + 2 rollen' is in Dutch. 'Extra d**k' is German (or a pretty strange English explanation on why you should have 2 extra toilet paper rolls for free...). I'm pretty sure it's a lost in translation mistake of the manufacturer and should be 'Extra dik'.

0points

Nicole van Ruiten 8 years ago

No it's not Dutch . In Dutch it would be Dik

0points

Cathy Claus 8 years ago

in dutch it's 'dik'

0points

Marc 8 years ago

nope... Deutsch

0points

Sarah Declerck 8 years ago

nvm, my mistake

0points

Doggo 5 years ago

is it just me or is this looking kinda THICC

0points

Dominic Neum 5 years ago

Don't make fun about our "d**k". :D It's just as good and frequently used as your "d**k".. 😅

0points

Kylie T 5 years ago

For those saying this is Dutch, this is also German

0points

Wiske Slagroom 8 years ago

this is dutch

0points

Jon Watts 8 years ago

Oh....My

0points

Mona Blenke 8 years ago

d**k (german ) is fat

0points

Jana Komankova 8 years ago

but also thick (such as a thick sweater)

0points

WhiteFox 8 years ago

'extra d**k'

-1point

#62

Funny German Language

Final score:

61points

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Brigitte 8 years ago

Only the ballpoint pen is called Kugelschreiber. Every other pen is Stift.

54points

Elina Palin 8 years ago

Ikr, and the finnish equivalent to kugelschreiber would be kuulakärkikynä :)

5points

Mary Peace 5 years ago

Again this attempt to make German sound aggressive, etc. In English we could say ballpoint pen, Biro, fountain pen, cartridge pen, felt -tip, marker pen. But does anyone write anymore?

0points

JuJu 5 years ago

This comment has been deleted.

0points

Daniela Klatt 8 years ago

Nö. Kulli

3points

Siddhi 8 years ago

It's actually "Kuli" with one l.

1point

Helena Andrea Bosch Berth 8 years ago

And in Spanish it is "bolígrafo", not pluma (pluma is only in a specific case)

2points

Carly Noelle 8 years ago

In school, they told us either one would work. I like boligrafo better though. It sounds nice.

0points

Naedria 8 years ago

Stift

2points

Anna Brandigi 8 years ago

german is honestly so exhausting

2points

Jen Wi 8 years ago

And the short Version is Kuli :)

1point

NMN 5 years ago

Caneta in Portuguese

0points

Patrick Reolon 5 years ago

spanish is wrong... pluma is an ink pen... "ballpoint pen" (as it shold be correcty in english) in spanish is: bolígrafo (composed word by ball & pen)

0points

Doggo 5 years ago

Ballwriter

0points

Anita Wolf 8 years ago

we also shorten it to "Kuli"

0points

#63

Funny German Language

Final score:

56points

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Anna Brandigi 8 years ago

glove snowball thrower 😂

11points

Mona Blenke 8 years ago

haha i'm sorry to tell u: the word handschuhschneeballwerfer doesn't exist in german ;)

1point

Mac's Meadow Markus Drendel 8 years ago

Warning! Think about the diversity meaning of the word: Gift (!!!!!!) that exists in English and German. While English people are happy to get and sometimes even eat it, Germans will never eat that when getting it, because when Germans eat "Gift" they will die!!!! Gift in german is poison!!!!!! ☠️

3points

Ποιητικό Αίτιο 5 years ago

Big a*s violin... I'd better not call anyone a cello then! xD

1point

JuJu 5 years ago

Vollpfosten - the word that bothers my American colleague since 2014

1point

Carly Noelle 8 years ago

I will devour a broom!

1point

Daniela Nik 8 years ago

Some englisch sounds strange when translated literaly, like e.g. Firefly > Feuerfliege

1point

Kat Blak 8 years ago

German is like someone trying to explain something they've never seen

1point

Diana Amberg 8 years ago

Fahne also means flag

0points

Alexandra Harounian 8 years ago

Flachzange, Vollpfosten, Flachwichser ... all can be translated with looser

0points

Caroline Cassano 8 years ago

I LOVE

0points

#64

Funny German Language

Final score:

51points

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ADHORTATOR 8 years ago

Or "Da liegt der Hund begraben" The dog is buried there

20points

Aga Boo 8 years ago

Same in Polish

6points

JuJu 5 years ago

Das also war des Pudels Kern!

1point

Alexander Constantin Frenzel 8 years ago

It comes from "Hasenpfeffer" which is a German dish close to a rabbit Gulasch with fresh blood in it. It is mainly seasoned with grounded pepper.

1point

Alexandra Harounian 8 years ago

Wrong! It's "there the hare is burried in pepper!"

0points

Enric Albi 8 years ago

Da ist der wurm drin

0points

Pedro Becker 8 years ago

haha that's that! XD

0points

#65

Funny German Language

Final score:

50points

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Tadeáš Bucha 8 years ago

in Slovakia as well :)

12points

Giorgio Prodoti 5 years ago

and in Italy

1point

Marlena Darmstädter 8 years ago

Same in Poland:)

3points

Alisa Rugină 8 years ago

In Hungarian is the same :)

2points

Jhoa 8 years ago

I didnt realize that other countries didnt call it that XD

1point

Hellysal 8 years ago

Same! I mean, really? That isn't a thing?

0points

Azziza 5 years ago

"Your guys" in the first panel doesn't make any sense. It should just say where are your costumes. The way it's written it means "where are the costumes of the guys belonging to you?"

0points

Bene Reich 8 years ago

Sylvester is also in Germany the cat from looney toons. Silvester with an "i" is "New years eve" in Germany :D

0points

#66

Funny German Language

Final score:

44points

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Francesca Bellan 8 years ago

Weird! In Italian we also use smoking, mobbing and pullover in exactly the same way :-D

15points

Diana CrunChewy Watson 8 years ago

In the same way as German or English?

1point

Martha Meyer 5 years ago

Bodybag is a marketing word. I've never actually heard someone use that in real life.

2points

Janine B. 5 years ago (edited)

I like "public viewing" the best. Invite a German for a public viewing, he will probably show up in his best football dress and bring some bottles of beer. 😂

1point

Santa Maria 8 years ago

"G******g" = group sex, "Box (Lautsprecher ihr Pfeifen!)" = speaker and box

1point

Manda QoP 8 years ago

English we say 'pullover' for jumpers, so 'pullunder' could make sense if it's something you wear beneath a sweater/jumper

1point

Hellysal 8 years ago

Poland also uses "smoking" like Germany ;D And "mobbing" is our 'official' name for bullying, like you use this in court and stuff. Also what's funny, we're not using "Pullunder" but "Pulower" (reading like 'pull over' : D dafuq : D)

1point

Leonardo Sinigaglia 8 years ago

The same in italian, and we use "box" as "garage". ☺

0points

Fanny Klatt 8 years ago

We also say pullover in Germnay. A pullunder basically is a pullover but without sleeves like a vest but without buttons. It's the things that Raj from "The Big Bang Theory" always wears under his jackets.

0points

Talia Johnson 8 years ago

French too! And 'footing' for jogging, which is my favorite!

0points

David Jeremy 8 years ago

'Sweater Vest' is an Americanism... we call it a tank top in Britain. A 'pullover' here is a jumper (what Americans would call a sweater) with long sleeves

0points

Azziza 5 years ago

"Smoking" sort of makes sense when you remember that there used to be "Smoking jackets" which gentlemen would don to go into the smoking room so the rest of their clothes wouldn't smell like smoke when they rejoined the ladies. Although it's not exactly a tuxedo.

0points

Panda Man 8 years ago

For some reason, when I see a picture of someone crying or being bullied, I feel really sad.

0points

Jhoa 8 years ago

XD So true

0points

#67

Funny German Language

Final score:

44points

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Amanda H. 8 years ago

Give me your answer so otherwise (That's what it says..) I must always speak German and "give you fear"

7points

Jasmin Woeller 8 years ago

Aufwertungen means upvotes ^^

5points

moonsong23 8 years ago

Actually, if you don't depict the person as a raging troll face and write in all caps, German doesn't sound that angry.

1point

Siddhi 8 years ago

Yes, the end says: "Give me your Likes or I have to continue speaking German, and to scare you!"

1point

#68

Funny German Language

Final score:

38points

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Nela Rothenbach 8 years ago

I'm sorry but it's: Blütenblätter - without n. Yes, German plural froms are just as complicated as the rest of the language; -)

50points

Beatrice Alighieri 8 years ago

Much softer! XD

5points

Clio Stronk 8 years ago

Bloemblaadjes in Dutch...

2points

Nela Rothenbach 8 years ago

That's cute

1point

Sid Martin 8 years ago

N would only appear in the dative.

0points

#69

Funny German Language

Final score:

37points

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Jörg Zingler 8 years ago

Thats the politically correct new name. The old one is: "Negerkuss". (negroes kiss)

26points

ADHORTATOR 8 years ago

"Schokokuss"..Dickmann is a brand

9points

Wim Lammens 8 years ago

Same here in Belgium, but tit instead of kiss...

3points

Fanny Klatt 8 years ago

If you like the name you'll also like the slogan: "Mann sind die d**k, Mann." Meaning: Man, are these thick man.

2points

Lina Kisieliūtė 8 years ago

I can attest, they were called that in Lithuania when I was a kid xD

1point

Sigrid Vinter 8 years ago

In Danish it's now cream buns (flødeboller) instead of negros buns. Actually the new name makes much more sense!

1point

Thor Sten 8 years ago

or Mohrenkopf... the word that I still use

0points

Roman Hans 5 years ago

Since we’re talking dirty, “Dicksaft” means “thick juice,” AKA syrup. Who wants Dicksaft on their pancakes?

1point

MH 8 years ago

English-English (without involving other languages or dialects): "D**k", "Turkey" and "C**k".... In SAME language. I take german before english any time...

1point

Marjolein 8 years ago

Same in the Netherlands

1point

Nicole van Ruiten 8 years ago

And super big too

1point

Tadeáš Bucha 8 years ago

in Slovak it's still called "black prince"

1point

Addie Tamsyn-Hunter 8 years ago

Not quite true. "Dickmann's" is just a brand (they taste awful). The correct name is "Schokokuss" (chocolate kiss) or "Schaumkuss" (foam kiss).

0points

Jennifer Troost 8 years ago

They are soooo delish!

0points

#70

Funny German Language

Final score:

37points

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Radek Suski 5 years ago

True story

2points

*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago (edited)

Tbh I think this is true with any language, lol.

1point

Blakkur Sverrir 5 years ago

True

0points

#71

Funny German Language

Final score:

35points

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Intensive Panda 8 years ago

Those words make sense but are actually made up (as I tried to explain in the comment section on the bottom)

18points

Enea 8 years ago

These words are odd combinations of phrases or statements pressed into a noun. In English these would be enless lists of nouns connected by "of" or relative phrases: guarantor of best service (whatever that might be), craftsman in motivating colleagues... none of these really exist (you wouldn't find them in a dictionary), and all go back to a mild insult called Warmduscher (someone using warm water for a shower) a couple of years ago that kicked off an avalanche of such combination words for people perceived to being too soft or trying too hard. It's supposed to be funny, but it really isn’t.

1point

Diana Amberg 8 years ago

Some of those words are incorrect in German - they are and adjective and noun to be correct.

0points

Emma Vink 8 years ago

Afrikaans is similar. We use many words together to designate one thing or concept. E.g. AIDS is Verworweimmunitheidsgebrekssindroom 😱😊

0points

Julia Stoll 8 years ago

Regenwurmdickdarmwendeverstopfung :D

0points

#72

Funny German Language

Final score:

33points

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Jörg Zingler 8 years ago

Swiss tv programs are subtitled on German tv.

15points

Týna Ef 8 years ago

there are so big diffrences?

1point

Thor Sten 8 years ago

for people in the north. Southenern understand the Swiss

1point

JuJu 5 years ago

Bavarian, Saxonian and some other dialects are subtitled too

-1point

Kristoffer Rahbek-Jensen 5 years ago

Dann komm nach Baddewürdeberch, wir können alles auser Hochdeutsch

1point

Benjamin Martin 5 years ago

To be fair the Swiss don't totally understand each other because there are quite a few different dialects. And the French speaking part. And the Italian speaking part. And the weird Romanche speaking part that is hidden deep in the mountains.

1point

Adam Rindegård 5 years ago

does any1 else see what i see in panel 4?

0points

Diana CrunChewy Watson 8 years ago

Question: what is the main difference between Swiss German and High German?

0points

Cristi 8 years ago

When I was learning German my teacher told me I sounded Swiss because I rolled my r's so much

1point

Constantin Lorenz 8 years ago

Swiss German is a pretty strong dialect, it actually sounds kind of Scottish English but with German words. I'm not joking - can't demonstarate in writing, but if I start out speaking with my (bad) Scottish accent and then in mid sentence switch over to German while keeping the jive going it usually cracks people of both languages up because it's so obvious. In any case it's close enough to answer your question by saying that it's about the same difference like the one between a California accent and a Scottish accent.

1point

Janine B. 5 years ago

It's far more complicated I'm afraid. What Constantin describes is the way Swiss people speak German, the so called Swiss Standard German. Swiss German is far more difficult and if you're not a Swiss you won't probably understand a way word they say. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German

0points

Janine B. 5 years ago

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0points

#73

Funny German Language

Final score:

30points

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Quant 8 years ago

I honestly did not know I lived in the butt of Bjork ;P

6points

JuJu 5 years ago

I suck...no matter the region I come from or live now. :D

0points

Siddhi 8 years ago

Well, this is obviously a funny way to try to express the single cities and regions with English words that sound similar, but the phonetics are mainly wrong with these. xD

2points

Wiebke Loup 8 years ago

"phonetic"... 😒 Sorry, but as a German studying English, I think this is nothing but stupid

2points

DC 5 years ago

Butt Ann Weird Ham ... ........ oh my ...

0points

Bezza Assefa 7 years ago

Ok seems like I'm living in a very mean can, and in a state which buys and earns.

0points

Diana CrunChewy Watson 8 years ago

This was more confusing for me.

0points

Cat Meow 8 years ago

Living in the country of nerd Ryan's :D

0points

Nela Rothenbach 8 years ago

Me, too :-)

0points

Karina Bleul 8 years ago

Hung over doesn't really sound like Han(n)over D:

0points

Cat Meow 8 years ago

Hang over sounds a little more like it. Still not perfect, but better

0points

#74

Funny German Language

Final score:

30points

POST

Cat Meow 8 years ago

Now I now what the inspiration to Pushing Daisies was... didn't take me like 10 years or so. Nope. XD

14points

NMN 5 years ago

Like "dad" and "dead"? Nah, weak post and argument "oh, you change the word and it means something different!"

2points

Cat Combes 8 years ago

Check the word Leichenschmaus. Leichen (dead body) + Schmaus (feast). Germans usually have a Leichenschmaus after a funeral. What ? Eat dead body ????

1point

Koko Sempai 8 years ago

isn't it tot ?

1point

Hanna 8 years ago

It's 'tot' meaning dead. "tote" are dead things ( plural)

0points

Sara Jensen 8 years ago

In Japan, if you mispronounce a word by altering one letter you go from telling a mom her baby is cute to telling her it is scary.

1point

Gemala Hapsari 8 years ago

kawaii vs kowaii?

1point

#75

Funny German Language

Final score:

27points

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Taco Cat 8 years ago

He he he ha ha he he

6points

ADHORTATOR 8 years ago

Ultra-Fat...

1point

Dorien Adriaenssens 8 years ago

Still funny when translated!

1point

#76

Funny German Language

Final score:

27points

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Just a Purpler 8 years ago

Does it really? I mean this sentence makes sense in "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo", but none of us actually understand it the first time we hear it...

16points

Saskia Gazda 8 years ago

When flies fly behind flies, flies are flying after flies. Something like this. In German it does result in a greater sense.

5points

Nela Rothenbach 8 years ago

It does. Although I have to admit that it would even be easier to understand if it wasn't all in capital letters.

5points

Just a Purpler 8 years ago

*In English. (There really should be an edit button on here lol)

4points

Jasmin Hürlimann 8 years ago

It does :)

3points

Brooke White 8 years ago

no it actually does. it means: when flies flie behind flies, (then) Flies flie after flies

2points

Anna Maske 8 years ago

translation: If flies fly behind flies, flies fly behind flies.

1point

Thom Schlevens 5 years ago

"Wenn Rochen Rochen rochen, rochen Rochen Rochen" is also quite interesting. It means "If rays smelled rays, rays smelled rays."

1point

Cees Timmerman 5 years ago (edited)

Als achter vliegen vliegen vliegen, vliegen vliegen vliegen na.

1point

Martine 5 years ago

Zo is dat! ;-)

1point

Anja Stam-Wibbeke 8 years ago

The first word is spelled 'wenn' though

1point

Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

No, no it doesn't.

0points

Bezza Assefa 7 years ago

This just means: When flies are flying behind flies then, flies are following flies.

0points

Siddhi 8 years ago

There is another version of this, which would be: "Fliegen fliegen über Fliegen, wenn Fliegen über Fliegen fliegen." Which means 'Flies fly above/over flies, when flies fly above/over flies.' (or word by word translation: Flies fly over flies, when flies over flies fly.)

0points

Siddhi 8 years ago

Or another version: Fliegen fliegen hinter Fliegen, wenn Fliegen hinter Fliegen fliegen. "Flies fly behind flies when flies fly behind flies." (or translated word by word: Flies fly behind flies, when flies behind flies fly.)

0points

Martina J. Hesse 8 years ago

This is the correct version: Wenn Fliegen hinter Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen nach

0points

Alexander Tröger 8 years ago

means nothing because there is a comma missing after the third Fliegen

0points

#77

Funny German Language

Final score:

25points

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TroubledPotato 8 years ago

Ohhhhh. This is why German isn't a love language.

10points

Nela Rothenbach 8 years ago

You know...as I'm German I thought she was running away because it's very uncommon to tell someone I love you to express your feelings of falling in love. We have various stages of "liking" someone

6points

Brooke White 8 years ago

no this is why it shouldn't be badly pronouced by americans, they always mangle the ch into some K-sound. This sentence is actually SOFT sounding. lots of soft and light sounds

4points

JuJu 5 years ago

I'm quite sure Goethe would disagree

1point

Dominic Neum 5 years ago

AND the next problem comes with the words we use for different love-related things and when it goes further for some body parts as well. It just doesn't sound aesthetic.. ^^'

0points

Hugo Kwame Coles 5 years ago

In Arabic it’s even worse. It is ahbak

2points

MH 8 years ago

The day you hear a german girl tell you "Ich liebe dich" with her sweet voice. You will fall in love instantly and never heal again! Even if they would shout at you!

1point

Jhoa 8 years ago

It has such the strange sound to it, in a way slobbery, and its too long.

1point

Ilo Na 8 years ago

lol it´s not to long and it sounds nice in German if you say it nice

2points

Borariet 🇳🇱 3 years ago

It's even longer in Dutch: ik hou van jou

0points

Jhoa 8 years ago

In my family, we said "Hab dich lieb", which translates to "I Have you love" But its more presentable than "Ich liebe dich"

0points

Siddhi 8 years ago

Why did they draw it as if the german guy is stalking the girl? :P Of course she would run in such a case. That's not very realistic.

0points

Constantin Lorenz 8 years ago

It's natural selection - if she dies from cardiac arrest upon proposal, she clearly wasn't the right one!

0points

#78

Funny German Language

Final score:

23points

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Clara Henriette 8 years ago

czech little match box

3points

ninjoun 8 years ago

What does "sch(a)chtelchen" mean? I really wanna know what Germans say about me.. :o

1point

Corinna Weichold 8 years ago

It's actually just about the word combination it's s tongue twister. :)

0points

Yasmin Espunkt 8 years ago

Schächtelchen is a little box. And Streichholz is a match. It's a matchbox

0points

Andreas Groppweiß 8 years ago

Schächtelchen means a little box and Streichholz is a match, so it means Czech matchbox

0points

Addie Tamsyn-Hunter 8 years ago

"Schächtelchen" is a tiny box

0points

Jana Komankova 8 years ago

czech matchboxes (Streichholz=match). we have a big tradition of producing matches,export them and there were whole series of collectible ones

0points

Mona Blenke 8 years ago

schachtel - box Schächtelchen - little box

0points

Jennifer Di Napoli 8 years ago

Small box 😊

0points

Katharina Bähre 8 years ago

A "Schächtelchen" is a cute/small kind of "Schachtel" which is a box. So a Schächtelchen is a small box (e.g. to put presents in).

0points

Iris Hess 8 years ago

Also smalltalk box

-2points

Martine 5 years ago

"Stekskes" in Flemish

0points

Bezza Assefa 7 years ago

Oh my god I pronounce that without hesitation or even thinking about it! 😂

0points

ADHORTATOR 8 years ago

I' m not german - but I can :-)

0points

#79

Funny German Language

Final score:

21points

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Lauren Kaufmann 8 years ago

y'all don't have ablative?

2points

Nela Rothenbach 8 years ago

No, we use prepositions to express the ablative.

5points

James Martinelli 6 years ago

Really?

0points

Bezza Adugna 8 years ago

I am learning this s**t for almost 11 years, and I still think that's b******t!(sry for these expressions)

0points

DannyBananyGoesWild 8 years ago

No vocative either.

0points

#80

Funny German Language

Final score:

21points

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Fabian Erdmann 8 years ago

We have the same word "Nationalität" :P :D

46points

Franz Lindemann 8 years ago

In fact we (the Germans) differentiate between "Staatsangehörigkeit" and "Nationalität". Staatsangehörigkeit is translated into citizenship and Nationalität is translated into nationality. But there are different meanings. In Germany you can have for example chinese nationality and german citizenship, when you were born in China and migrated to Germany.

6points

Jasmin Hürlimann 8 years ago

We would say Nationalität

3points

Éva 8 years ago

Hungarian: nemzetiségek

1point

Szki Bali 8 years ago

És én még azt hittem, hogy a magyar egy nehéz nyelv. De a német leelőzi XD Mer' hát most mér' ne? :D

0points

Janine B. 5 years ago

Bitte? :)

0points

#81

Funny German Language

Final score:

20points

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Intensive Panda 8 years ago

because "Tafel" has several meanings and Google Translator somehow manages to pick not the right one. EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.

24points

moonsong23 8 years ago

Well maybe the multiple meanings are the problem.

1point

Siddhi 8 years ago

Yes, this is a chocolate bar actually.

2points

Sid Martin 8 years ago

A Hershey bar is one.

1point

Chrisni Grobler 8 years ago

Think it might mean chocolate table. As in a table on which chocolate is displayed. That would be the Afrikaans anyway.

0points

#82

Funny German Language

Final score:

20points

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Hellysal 8 years ago

Polish: Samolot (flies on its own) :D And for car: Samochód (walks on its own) c:

9points

Michael Yackovlev 6 years ago

Russian: samolyot, and for car - avtomobil` (the same: moves on its own, just in Latin). Or mashina (like machine)

2points

Sophia Cai 7 years ago

Chinese: Bicycle = self walking car? wtf right

0points

Sophia Cai 7 years ago

Oh! So that's what it means! :)

0points

Jeanine Greifswald-Tolleson 6 years ago

Actually "Aeroplan" was used in the German language too but is now obsolete, at least in Germany. You might hear the word from German speaking Swiss people though.

1point

Brooke White 8 years ago

except if you are from cologne, then it is a Fluchzeusch ;)

1point

MH 8 years ago

Swedish: Flygplan

1point

Sigrid Vinter 8 years ago

Dutch: Vliegtuig Danish: fly or flyver or flyvemaskine

1point

#83

Funny German Language

Final score:

19points

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Anna Linnaeus 8 years ago

I'm a 70's baby and used to read German pop mag Bravo in the 80's and remember the articles on Back to the Future. Zurück zum Zukunft takes some serious tongue-wrapping.

12points

Nadine Bamberger 5 years ago

You laid out perfectly designed grammar nazi trap and caught some really juicy ones lol

3points

Sandra Luz 8 years ago

I used to read Bravo too. Back to the Past… ;)

2points

Katharina Schütz 8 years ago

Probably because it's wrong, the German title is "Zurück in die Zukunft", "zum" is the wrong case, since "Zukunft" is female, it would be "zur". But that would also make no sense, because you can't land somewhere around the future, only directly in the future.

2points

Tigerman Tony 8 years ago

Zurück in die Zukunft

0points

Kevin Amann 8 years ago

"Zurück in die Zuckunft"

0points

Bianca Gue 8 years ago

It's true. Germans always wear a Hitler moustache (even the female!) and they always yell when they're talking. It's true.

4points

Nela Rothenbach 8 years ago

And we have glowing red eyes ;-)

3points

Cees Timmerman 5 years ago

In Dutch it's "toekomst", literally "tocoming".

1point

Kurczak Kurczakowy 8 years ago

PL Przyszłość :)

1point

Hellysal 8 years ago

Polish: PRZYSZŁOŚĆ.

1point

Beatrice Alighieri 8 years ago

Yep. Zukunft.

0points

#84

Funny German Language

Final score:

18points

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Happy Ghost 8 years ago

...Czech: Barva, Slovak: Farba

18points

Александра Ковачевић 8 years ago

Serbian: boja , farba

1point

Ivana Jaksevac 8 years ago

Croatian - boja

1point

danila karpenko 8 years ago

russian zvet

0points

moonsong23 8 years ago

Hallo. Was ist deine liblingsfarbe?

1point

True Blue 5 years ago

Ok I only know this of what you said "Hello, What is" then I'm lost do you mind translating?

1point

Jo Choto 5 years ago

If you compare all words from one language group with a single word from a different group, you will get this every single time. There are lots of Germanic/Slavic languages where the words all have similar bases.

0points

Michael Yackovlev 6 years ago (edited)

There are roman languages and germanic languages. And there are words that are similar with German & English but different with roman languages, similar with roman but different with English and other combinations, involving for example slavic languages. So generally German is not as special as you try to present it.

0points

Enea 8 years ago

Why the angry face? It's pronounced Far as in a distance away and be as in bet without t.

0points

Bettina Szabó 8 years ago

Hungarian: szín

0points

#85

Funny German Language

Final score:

16points

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Joe Dad 8 years ago

I don't think it's funny at all. Hitler was no laughing matter. Moreover, he was born in Austria.

20points

Ampérlo Voltić 8 years ago

born in austria, but blooming on german clod

3points

Kristoffer Rahbek-Jensen 5 years ago

Hitler came from Austria and spoke German with a heavy Austrian accent.

1point

DannyBananyGoesWild 8 years ago

Go listen to Trump - THAT'S LISTENING TO HITLER

-2points

Pixie 5 years ago

True. Very scary, but true. Not the insane intonation that hitler had with the rolled "r" and so on, but there are a lot of similarities

0points

Diana CrunChewy Watson 8 years ago

Well, hang tight Germany. If the current American administration has their way, you are about to be let off the hook big time.

-2points

#86

Funny German Language

Final score:

8points

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Karina Bleul 8 years ago

just "Krawatte" Seide=Silk

37points

Rick Seiden 5 years ago

My great grandfather was making his way to the US through Europe when he got into a confrontation in Germany. A German grabbed him by the shirt and asked him what his name was. He thought the man was asking what type of s**t it was, so he answered that it was a silk shirt. He was called "Seiden" after that, and it kept to this day. This is the actual history of my family name.

2points