"Aufzug" is technically a false friend bc "Zug" is train, but in "Aufzug" the "zug" comes from the word "ziehen" (to pull) and the name came from the first elevators elevated with human strength, they were literally pulled up, that's why the "Auf" (up) "zug" (to pull) is called Aufzug. ☺️

In German the opposite of "umfahren" is "umfahren". "Umfahren" means to run someone over and "umfahren" means to drive around someone.

The german word for elevator "Aufzug" means more "up pull", because the german word for train is "Zug" because it is pulled by a locomotive

Mutterseelenallein Mother Soul alone, Feeling so lost, not even your Mother's Soul is with you. To me, one of the most powerfull German Words. Greetings from Germany

My favorite: Diarrhea - in German "Durchfall" (fall through)

yes we do recognize the compound words. That's the beauty of German language. Even if you don't know what something is called: you can make something up and everyone will understand :D Also yes: Stinktier and Faultier can be used as an insult

I love Flugzeug. It's an airplane but literally translates to Fly-thing 😄

The German language is a modular system. Around the year 2000, the vocabulary of the standard German language was given as 300,000 to 400,000 words. An evaluation recently revealed a number of 17.4 million compound words.

I never studied German and it is interesting to hear these words, because a lot of these words in Finnish mean literally the same as in German, like the dust sucker and the rolling stairs. The stink animal is a stink weasel for us, but clearly the logic behind the word is the same.

Thats actually the great thing about German - that you can combine any existing noun to a new "compound" word. thats why in german u can be very precise and descriptive while in other languages you would need whole sentences to describe the same thing. :)

Feli from Germany made a video about the same topic. It's called "15 Genius German words that are missing in English". You should definitely watch it. As Feli is German you can learn the correct German pronunciation, too. Dana Newman still has a strong American accent when speaking German.

Also Kröte->Toad and Schildkröte->"Shielded Toad"->Turtle

Gloves were - in the past, when the word was created - usually made of leather - like shoes. Therefore "hand-socks" would have been wrong, as socks are not made of leather.

our best german ideas were.... a thing is "zeug", like "give me this thing" so when we we have a thing that makes fire (lighter) so we coll it Feuerzeug (firething), we wave a thing that flys (plane) and call it Flugzeug (flything), with have things we work with (tools) so wie call it Werkzeug (workthing), everything in the garden is green, so we call it Grünzeug (greenthing), yeeaaah very creative^^

We know this technique well and we even play with it. Mostly every part of a compound word can easily be used for a new word so we build chains where the second part of a word becomes the first part of a new word. Fensterbrett-Bretterzaun- Zaunlatte- Lattentor-Torwart- Wartezeit-Zeit.... I used to play this with my kids on boring waiting times.

Wie er versucht die Worte zu wiederholen... Einfach herrlich 😂

With the New Year coming up you should definetly do a reaction Video to "Dinner for one" it is an english black and white comedy than nearly everyone in germany watches on New years eve it is on nearly every public TV Station the whole afternoon and night. Would love to see it. Keep up the great work und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!!

Mark Twain once wrote about the German language and they way it uses compound words: "There are some exceedingly useful words in this language. Schlag, for example; and Zug. There are three-quarters of a column of Schlags in the dictionary, and a column and a half of Zugs. The word Schlag means Blow, Stroke, Dash, Hit, Shock, Clap, Slap, Time, Bar, Coin, Stamp, Kind, Sort, Manner, Way, Apoplexy, Wood-cutting, Enclosure, Field, Forest-clearing. This is its simple and exact meaning -- that is to say, its restricted, its fettered meaning; but there are ways by which you can set it free, so that it can soar away, as on the wings of the morning, and never be at rest. You can hang any word you please to its tail, and make it mean anything you want to. You can begin with Schlag-ader, which means artery, and you can hang on the whole dictionary..."

You finally found the secret code for creating german nouns 😁. Just mix and match as you like to. People will unterstand most, at least it is worth a try.

OMG - NACKTSCHNECKE! KRASS!!! Thank you! You just made my day and made me laugh xD

The word "Aufzug" is not really translated correctly. The 'zug' can translate to train, but also to the word pull. So the translation of "Aufzug" would be Up-pull. Which is literally what it does - it pulls you up Also, the word 'Fahrstuhl' is used a lot in german instead of 'Aufzug'. It translates roughlx to "Driving chair"

I don't think "Aufzug" has anything to do with trains. "zug" is not only the Word for train but can also be translated as "pull" in english. So it's more like "pull up" than "up train" .

It's not an up-train for elevator, it is an up-pull, refering to the pully system with which an elevator pulls you and the compartment up.

I do have another really powerful, maybe forgotten german word: Wiedergänger > zombie. Wieder - again, Gänger - walker. A real walking dead.

That’s the secret behind the „super long“ German words: Almost all of these long words are compound words - we just don‘t put a space between the words. So what you call „police car“ we call „Polizeiauto“ (with Polizei=police and Auto=car).

"Sitzgruppe" is a wonderful german word. dont know if there is even a word for that in other languages. it describes certain seat arrangements like for example a one, two and three seater combined in your livingroom and simply means seatgroup(:

okay okay I get it, leather gloves are Handschuhe, wool gloves are Handsocken ... from now on.

At the same time you mentioned the compounding words in german, you can see the word "subscribe" in the video. This is a good example for english compound words.

Yes, we do recognize compound words as such, but for me at least only if I have a second to think about it. Best example is "Flugzeug" (fly thing; airplane) and "Feuerzeug" (fire thing; lighter). We use it like normal words until you are asked to think about it and realize how lazy the naming is xD

yes we recognize our compound words, the kids in elementary even lern words this way. they learn words like hand and shoe and then combine these words into 'handshoe' (glove). we also have picture puzzles (mostly for kids) were the answers are compound words.

In Dutch we use the same words for the animals, but saying the dutch way. Snecke is slak, so we have a naaktslak. Cloves = handschoen, escalator = roltrap. And there a lot more words that are (almost) the same.

Spielplatz, Platzregen, Regenschirm, Schirmständer, Ständerlampe, Lampenputzer, Putzerstation, Stationsgebäude, Gebäudeblock, Blockhaus, Hauseigentümer, Eigentümergeselllschaft, Gesellschaftsspiel...Spielplatz etc.

When my husband (then bf) came to visit me in the US, he couldn’t remember the word for curtains/drapes. He called them window blankets. This explains why. (I thought it was so cute.🥰😂)

I can literally imagine Kurt Angle's 'You Suck!' Chant for Dustsucker 🤣🤣🤣

5:22 that’s so fckn true oml. we don’t make up new words we just put two different words together

To every German watcher and Ryan We (the German community) should definitely teach him some German basics 👇

And then there is the „Schnegel“, a combination of the German words for snail and leech. 😉 And yes, you can use „Stinktier“ and „Faultier“ as insults. But I can not confirm the Up Train, because „Zug“ (train) is related to the word „ziehen“ (to pull). We also say „Vogelzug“ (birds migration) when birds fly to the south for winter time. We also say „Umzug“ wenn someone moves to (umziehen) another city. So an „Aufzug“ is more like a cabin that gets pulled up instead of an upwards train.

German is a very practical Language. Everytime I explain german Words in english, they go like, omg this is sooo cute ;-D therer are other words like vetriloquist - Bauchredner in english Tummytalker, Tights- Strumpfhosen in english Sockpants, you found actually the reason why german words are that long. A lot of english speakers dont understand that the famous Donaudampfshifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän isnt a word at all. its more a game we play. Nobody ever uses this word. But with german grammar you can make up every word you can imagine even you would never talk like that. For example. there is a table in the kitchen with a blanket on it and you have Decoration for the blanket you can say in German: Eine Dekoration für eine Tischdecke für den Tisch in der Küche .... or you just invent a new word right know saying the same as the sentence you wrote but nobody will ever use this again : Küchentischdeckendekoration PS: Elevator don´t mean Up train in german it means pull up because "Zug" can be train as well as pull

The thing about compound words is that while if we think about it - we are definetely aware what words the compound word is made from but at least I do not think about "Handschuh" as two words being stitched together. I dont think about it as a "Hand-Schuh" but a "Handschuh". And thats the case for most compound words. Especially when a compound word is made out of adjectives or verbs plus a noun like "Rolltreppe" it feels even more like a single unit.

Yes, we recognize the compound words. It's even a separate topic in elementary school German lessons.

Aufzug in my opinion would come from 'ziehen', pulling you upwards.

Ryan, your pronounciation of german words is really good. We have good friends from America that even lived in Germany for a few years but they had big trouble even getting words out in the correct way. That is really impressive on your part, really nice to see

In German there is a second word for an elevator, not only "Aufzug" but also "Fahrstuhl", which literally means "driving chair" and I think, it's beautiful 🤩. By the way - you know, what a "Paternoster" is? It's a variation of an modern elevator, which goes round and round. In English, I think, it's called a paternoster lift.

Our german language teacher made a game out of compound words. She told one word and the 1st student who had his turn had to make a compound word out of it. Every following student had to remember the compund words and add one at the end (which had to make sense btw). The one remembering the longest compound word won and the one not remembering the compound lost. Sounds easy on paper with like 3-4 compound words, but imagine a compound word almost as long as this line of text written in this comment 😱 Something like this: "Einkaufswagenradschraubengewindeschneiderkühlflüssigkeitsbehälterschraubverschluss"/ Shopping cart wheel screw thread cutter cooling fluid container screw cap.

My relatives and friends from Scotland always had a good laugh while heading for the offramp which is called "Ausfahrt"

Understanding German compound words is easy when you just remember: The rightest part of the word describes the most generic meaning, the most left part the most detailed. As an example: Last=cargo, Kraft=force, Wagen=carriage. Lastkraftwagen translates to a truck, since it's a carriage driven by the force of an engine and mainly used for the transport of cargo. So, make a guess what translates to Personenkraftwagen? Usually, in Germany we use the abbreviation LKW and PKW for them. Instead of inventing a new word when the first trucks and cars were built, we use existing words stitched together to name the new things. This can go very far, for lots of things we use the word Zeug=tool as the most generic and adding the function term to distinct between them: Flug=Flight -> Flugzeug=plane, Fahrt=the ride -> Fahrzeug=vessel, Werk=work -> Werkzeug=tool, Halle=hall -> Werkzeughalle=workshop.

In German, you can string as many words together as you like. E.g. Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän. Which would translate to: Danube (a river in germany) Steamship Company Captain There are even longer variations of this word. nobody used them but they are grammatically correct

I am from german and your german is realy good (Ich bin aus Deutschland und dein deutsch ist wirklich gut)

In german there is actually a grammatical rule where it is allowed to form new words from old words, even if they weren't a thing before! Therefore we technically could create a word that is over one page long and takes minutes to speak out loud. For one small example: "Spielzeugautokistendeckel" which means literally "Play thing cars box lid" which is just the lid for the box where the toy cars are stored. when I recall correctly the rule is called "neologismus" but I might be mistaken.

Historically, Handschuhe have been like Schuhe out of leather, but i have never heard of leather socks.

Yeah I know Wanted Adventure, I bought her book for my sisters birthday some years ago. A ton of German nouns are compound and yes, we do classify them as such. When you start learning German there are many words you will be able to understand with just one extra vocabulary which is pretty neat

Nacktschnecke! Krass! Ryan, your german is almost complete. You can already do a lot with it :-D

Hey, Ryan. As an austrian I have to admit that we do recognize, that we use a lot of compound words. We even have like games where you have to extent a word with another one and then your opponent and so on... But the word we use very often, like in this example "Handschuh" i would say i would not recognize it as a compound word if we were not speaking of it

I like the word "Fahrstuhl" for "elevator" even better: riding chair!

We have another word for elevator: "Fahrstuhl", a "drive chair", even though most elevators don't have chairs in them 😅

still of of my favorite compound words is: Mittelstreifenbegleitgrünverordnung.

8:26 swedish is very similar, lot's of compound words, I love it

Another word for "Elevator/Aufzug" is "Fahrstuhl" which translated means "DrivingChair" :). And you are correct in the German language we seem to make out of everything long compound words. In English you split the same words up, I also just have noticed this lately. Its actually pretty crazy how long some of the German words can become because of this.

The "roots" from the "Handschuh" "gloves" is from smithing. And to the time there the gloves was made from leather, like shoes. So, thats the reason behind, i think. Im thinking all about the "-Zeug" "stuff"... That could be funny... Plane - Flugzeug - fly stuff Toy - Spielzeug - play stuff Tool - Werkzeug - craft stuff Stuff - Zeug You can also use "Zeug" for all kind of things if you dont wanna be specific about it... Like "all the elektro stuff" or anything else. And, like the "Handyzeug" "mobilefone/cellfone stuff"... Yes we cal them "Handy" bc they are that! And, a merry Christmas for you too, and a happy New Year! Like we say "guten Rutsch(, aber nicht hin fallen) ins neue Jahr!" translated= "good slide (but dont fall) in to the New Year". So have all a "Guten Rutsch!" 💖

Hi, I´m from Germany too and I really enjoy your videos

I like Kühlschrank for refrigerator. It literally means "cool cupoard"

Some nice examples might bei Waschmaschine and Spülmaschine e.a. waschen -> Wäsche waschen, spülen -> Geschirr spülen, Bohrmaschine -> Löcher bohren ...

Elevators are also called "Fahrstuhl" which would literally translate to Drivechair 😊. Meant by this saying is usually the cabin itself. If we refer to the elevator shaft we say Fahrstuhlschacht.... And as you see conjuction we do a lot. That's why people think we have sooooo many words. 🤣

The Duden (Dictionary) counts 23 million german words❤

Ryan, it makes me happy to see when people like you try to learn the German language. I’m German and yes, German is an extremely hard language in spelling, grammar and pronunciation for not German-speaking people. If you really wanna learn German, you have to do it. It’s definitely worth it. ☺️ P.S.: As I learned English, I decided to speak and writhe American English. It sounds definitely better than British English 😀

Oh, I love Dana, she's awesome!! 😍

Yes, one aspect of the german language, that is very hard for non native speakers, is, that we always come up with new compound words. A teacher of mine hat a very interesting favourite: "Dampfschifffahrtskapitänswitwenrentenantragsformular". And yes, that is a real word that any German will understand, even if they never heard it before. Let´s pick it apart, just for fun: Starting from the back, a ""Formular" is a "form sheet" "Antrag" is an "application" Put together "Antragsformular" is an "application form sheet", for some reason no regular citizen will be able to tell you, why an "s" was mixed in... Moving on: "Rente" is german for "pension", the "n" is added for the plural. This sums up to "Rentenantragsformular", or in english "pension application from sheet". "Witwe" is german for "widow", again for some reason the "n" is added for plural. "Kapitän" means "captain" in german, together, we have "Kapitänswitwe", the widow of a captain of some sort. Again, an "s" was added for unknown reasons. This leaves us with "Dampf" ("steam"), Schiff ("ship") an "Fahrt", which literally means "ride". The combination of "Schiff" and "Fahrt" is "shipping", adding "Dampf" results in "Dampfschifffahrt" aka "steam shipping". For the grand finale: "Dampfschiffahrtwitwenrentenantragsformular" would be a "form sheet for the application for the widow´s pension of a steam shipping captain". Basically, what I´am saying is: we don´t like playing Scrabble in Germany. 😜

7:10 Zug not just means a train but to pull. So Aufzug can be translated to pull up.

Ryan, a small hint for you: The "Z" is pronounced like a "ts". Always ;). Unlike in English it's not like a s-sound. And one Version of the "ch" is quite easy: Form your mouth like saying "ee" and then just make a hissing sound (just let the air flow out). "Echt" (real, genuine) or "rechts" and "richtig" (both right) is pronounced like this. In "Nacht" (night) it's more in the back of the mouth. But don't ask me for a rule when we use which one! And as for compound words: Well, they're there und we use them without thinking too much about them. If I hear "Handschuh" I immediately think of a glove and not of a shoe. Word -> Sound -> meaning, just like you also do in English :)

Regenschirm (rain shield, engl. umbrella). PKW (Personenkraftwagen, people power wagon, engl. car), LKW (Lastkraftwagen, load power wagon, engl. truck). Ausgang (Going Out, engl. Exit), Eingang (going in, engl. Entrance), Hochhaus (high house, engl. Skyscraper). There are hundreds of thousands. Yes we have a lot compound words but this also mean that we have a lot more possibilities to describe the same thing in many different ways while there is only one good or better emphatic one in English and there are also many words that just have no pendant in English. Like Wanderlust, Schadenfreude, Zugzwang, Fernweh, Verschlimmbessern, Schnapsidee, Feierabend, Kabelsalat, Geisterfahrer, Brückentag, Treppenwitz, Kummerspeck, Geborgenheit, Scheinheilig, Fingerspitzengefühl, Ohrwurm, Abendbrot, Erklärungsnot, Kopfkino, Geschmacksverkalkung, Zeitgeist and many more

In low German a vacuum cleaaner is called "Huulbessen" (howling broom).

Watched a lot of videos these days so far, and i love that channel :D

Actually, Ryan, there are completely new words we made up for certain things, for which english does NOT have one! For example: Ampel - traffic light Angel - fishing rod/pole

Elevator can also be translated to "Fahrstuhl" which literally means "Drive Chair"

The thing about compound words: german is famous for them but english has them too. Only difference: you spell them seperated. My favourite example is "police car". It's a compound word cause you can say "a police car". Only saying "a police" doesnt make sense, there has to be something behind it. Also works with "officer". Anyway all we do in german is to really put them together into one word. In this case "Polizeiauto". There are many other examples like "remote control" --> "Fernbedienung", "town hall" --> "Rathaus". But granted, english hardly ever goes beyond two part compounds while in german you could theoretically create extremely long compound words. In daily life that's very rare though. And to translate them into english you'd need a lot of little helpers like "for" or "of". For example in my hown town of Leipzig we have a huge monument called "Völkerschlachtdenkmal". In English: "monument to the battle of the nations". Now which one is longer? 😜

Wieder mal ein Klasse Video. Ich schreib das hier zur Verwirrung einfach mal in Deutsch. 😄 Einen schönen Tag noch😀

I'd say with the shorter compound words which still are such, we don't actively recognize anymore that they're compound words, like with Handschuh. Those are just so commonly used and ingrained in daily language. However, there are of course others where it is also easily apparent to us, like Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz. (Yep, that was the suggested title of a very specific bill, though for the time the corresponding law was in place, they had actually split up the title to be easier to read.) In case you're interested and it never occured before: English would have been: Beef Labeling Supervision Duties Transfer Act/Law What it was changed to (in German, of course): Law on the transfer of tasks for the supervision of cattle identification and beef labeling (which is about the same amount of individual words in German)

The good part about the German language is that one can cover pretty much everything one could encounter in the world and make up a name for it or describe how things are. So I know the language gets flack for being difficult to learn (mostly grammar I guess including pronouns of items/people) but there's also, as mentioned, a system behind stuff so if one knows some words one could get along easily enough, even though they might not be the actual words used.

We also have other words for Aufzug, Fahrstuhl (driving chair) and Lift.

My favorite words in our language are build with "-Zeug" (=thing/stuff), such as: Fahrzeug (lit. "driving/riding thing") = Vehicle Flugzeug (lit. "flight thing") = Aeroplane Feuerzeug (lit. "fire thing") = Lighter 😃😄😀

My favorite is "Flugzeug", airplane. It basically means "flying stuff"

Aufzug means more like up pull, because the zug comes from the word ziehen which means to pull

FWIW, english also has a lot of compound words - fewer than german, but still a lot. The only real difference is in English you form compounds mostly by just listing the words separated by spaces, whereas in german you leave the spaces off and sometimes insert some “glue” syllables in between to make it easier to say. Sometimes the english space-separated compound word will become so recognised it’ll just turn into one word eventually. Other peculiar things: In english, people really love creating new words based off of Latin (or at least Latin-sounding) terms, where in german a compound would be used. Also, it’s way more common especially in American English than in german to use cute acronyms for new words (like LASER or RADAR); Acronyms are of course used in german, but we don’t do this thing where we specifically make up a phrase just to have an easy to pronounce acronym in the end.

A lot of comments about the word "Aufzug". But there is another, as easy as it is. "Lift" is also a common name for the same thing.

Well for "Aufzug" you can also use "Fahrstuhl" which means driving chair.

a bit random, but your pronunciation of "nacktschnecke" (slug) Was Spot on lol

You like German long words? The longest German word I have come across as a German is: Kurzfristenenergieversorgungssicherungsmaßnahmenverordnung (Short-term Energy Supply Security Measures Ordinance). This is a measure to save energy in buildings. Because of the feared energy crisis due to the Ukraine war. It's a beautiful word, isn't it? I would love to hear you try to pronounce that.^^

The word "Zug" is used in many different contexts in German, so don't think you have it mastered if you know one of them. Actually, Mark Twain already noticed that and wrote about it, in his essays on travelling through Europe - and that was 130 years ago! Very interesting to read, in particular the part that descibes how he has experienced Germany at that time. Certainly very much different to what it looks like today.

While many will say the thing with the elevator is a "false friend". And its actually not really a flase friend, because both share the same origin, namely Zug. Not as in train, but pull. Züge (trains) are also named after the act of pulling "Ziehen". Becuase the original trains were pulled by muscle power too. Either human or animal. Trains are also a very good example why German tends to be a hard language. Because ther is different Names for trains that mean the same, but only in the right context. For example Zug can either mean "train" or "pull", but also in some sentence constructions be a shroter way to name a cold draft inside a house. Then you get "Eisenbahn" that literally translates to Iron track/way but is used depending on context as a generic word for either trains or the whole operation of trains operating on tracks, basically railwaysservices. Most commonly its in normal language shortened to "Bahn" which can also mean train, railwayservices but also the company operating most German trains and the railway network. That one is also operating a lot of trucks, so at times somone in a company might say they expect "die Bahn" to deliver something, but is talking about a delivery by truck. Bahn is also a very general word that might be used to name roads, any other type of rails or delivery systems, basically anything that is a confined stretch of space stuff travels on. The confines don´t need to be physical, so when you throw something it also travels along a "Bahn". (and its many derivatives Laufbahn, Fahrbahn, Fluagbahn, Eisenbahn tec.)

Considering that originally gloves were made of leather the word Handschuh is more correct than handsock. And in the case of elevator the word Zug is less referring to trains but more to the verb ziehen which means to pull. Also Aufzug is used less then Fahrstuhl which means driving chair and is related to the chair lifts which were originally invented for crippled or elderly people. Also the early versions of elevators had at least one chair in them for the guy whose work was handleing it for u.

Favourite (literal) translation: Schildkröte (turtle). Literally translates to "shield toad" 😂🐢

7:20 The word doesn't actually mean up train, but rather "pull up" or "up pull" with elevators being just a platform, that is being 'pulled up'

For elavator we can also say "Fahrstuhl". It means drive chair

Almost forgotten today: "Habseligkeiten", meaning a few things you own that are your precious belongings

I died at, they have four words. "You don't make up new words." 🤣🤣🤣

there are two words for elevator - Aufzug and Fahrstuhl. Fahrstuhl translates to driving(fahr) chair(stuhl). dunno why cos there are no chairs in an elevator but i still find it kinda funny :)

Es gibt im Deutschen auch noch den Paternoster Aufzug.Umgangssprachlich auch als Beamtenheber oder Beamtenbagger genannt.Viel Spass Bei der Übersetzung.

Trivia from a german: Nacktschnecke also means shaven beaver 😉🤣

And one of my most favourite staples of the German language: the "Komposita" (compound words)

Another German word for “elevator” is “Fahrstuhl”, which means “driving chair”