Comments on: Top 17 Funny German Words and Phrases

By: anna

anna — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 03:15:42 +0000

Hahah pretty funny! Very true about the Rammstein commentary LOL

By: Ole

Ole — Sat, 09 Nov 2013 18:35:59 +0000

Ooops, I knew that around 70% of us have a Genitv – problem and that 50% have problems with the direct and indirect object (Mir und mich verwechsele ich nicht…). But that there are people who have also serious problems because they don’t know even basic knowledge like verbs… Ouch! Language is an idea. If you loose your language, you’re losing your point of view and your point of you! Without language you are not able to interact with your environment. You’ll loose all your ideas and that what you makes to a human being with a chance to search for enlightenment. If your language got lost, there is no difference between you and an animal anymore. So I hope. you’ll remember your mother tongue. Then you can start to learn a second and a third language to be able to change your point of view. Bon courage!

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:55:03 +0000

RIGHT!!! Cause english speaking people are to dump or unwilling to learn another language, because many people speak english and say dont have to! if this website would be german, we could write about the same stuff and you wouldn t understand a word!

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:51:27 +0000

and if someone uses the whole title in 14) it will be professor doktor!
besides: 9) is not a word that is used by anybody

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:46:24 +0000

yeah its funny. But I, for myself as a german, think sometimes its enough with this jokes. Because I don’t think languages for eastern europe sound much better. I’m glad there were no Hitler jokes because nowadays I would say this is far behind us. and he isn’t german either! and no german talks like he did.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 20:40:53 +0000

oh man es gibt echt dumme menschen natürlich gibt es “säugt”! Saugen ist ein anderes Wort als säugen!

By: Lou

Lou — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 18:50:49 +0000

Have you already heard of these “German” words:
“Handy” (mobile phone)
“Body Bag” (in Germany that’s what you call a bag you wear close to your body)
“Public Viewing” (a kind of open air movie theater during sport events)

You know these are the words used in German, it’s not the English translation

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By: Ulissey

Ulissey — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:55:24 +0000

Well, “kuli “can be very rude in French-Italian: “va fatto ein kuli “…
I have a goethe feeling there are a lot of other funny sounding German words,..
Now, don’t let me get started on the way English irregular verbs sound in French: they are the litmus test for all new teachers of English in France , as students start learning them in year 8 or 9…try teaching “put” or “bite” to sniggering thirteen year-olds

By: knospe

knospe — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 07:52:02 +0000

Oh and one more:

Kugelschreiber = ball-point pen

That’s a mouthful – in German and English – so let’s shorten it:

de: Kuli (Nice and short, right?)
en: pen (Shorter, yes. But now it can be a fountain pen, too.)

So if you say pen in english no one knows what you are writing with.
Please don’t compare a “long-form” german word to a “reduced” english word (that, to top it off, loses some of the meaning and distinctiveness)