>Ryan: "How do you call an octopus a fish?!" >meanwhile, the English language: "Starfish. Crayfish. Cuttlefish."

Some animals and other things are named after how they arrived in Germany. Das Meerschweinchen (Guineapig) is an animal that was brought here by ship that sailed over the ocean, so they called it the Ocean Pig. The same way that Flugananas (flight pineapple) or generally Flugobst (flight fruit) arrives in Germany by flight.

Flußpferd makes perfect sense. Hippopotamus is exactly the same (River horse) from Greek.

"Miesmuschel" has a nice origin.. There's many different types of mussels. The "Miesmuschel" is a variety that likes to live between a certain type of algae that makes it look as if they live between moss. Old German (and old English, too) called moss "mies" before the languages had a large vowel shift (the book was once pronounced with a long o), and while moss (and German "Moos" has shifted, the mussel didn't shift the vowel. There you have it, the "moss mussel".

To be fair though, if you take the english name for Igel, Hedgehog, and translate it to german, you get the name "Heckenschwein", which is not exactly precise either.

Rhinoceros comes from the Greek rhino meaning nose (as in rhinoplasty) and ceros meaning horn (as in keratin, the material the horn is made from) Hippopotamus comes from the Greek: hippo meaning horse (as in hippodrome) and potamos meaning river, Germans translate words, English speakers use them as is...

1:43 Gürteltier = literally: belt animal

ryan today: im not going to curse ryan yesterday: repeats german insults

The reason the earwig/Ohrwurm/Ohrenkneifer is called this way is because they tended to love the warm and moist strawmattresses in medieval times. They are also able to pinch with the two claws on their behind and are nocturnal. So when you turned around, while one of them was crawling across your pillow, you might get pinched... on your ears.

Have another one: Fledermaus (literally „flapping mouse“). Its the bat🦇 Also mega bats (flying foxes) are called „Flughund“ in german, which literally means „flying dog“

Ryan: wolverines don't live in the US Washington and Alaska: 😢

The platypus in dutch takes it up another notch "Vogelbekdier" = bird beak animal

The Zitronenfalter is a specific butterfly - Gonepteryx Rhamni / (common) Brimstone. The german word for butterfly is Schmetterling, though Falter might also refer to a butterfly, and it also means „to fold“. So Zitronenfalter either translates as the lemon colored butterfly, or the lemons folder.

One of my favorites is the squirrel, in german it is called "Eichhörnchen" (little oak horn)

The calipers of the Ohrenkneifer are actually used to unfold their wings. Not all of them are able to fly, but they all sport that 'attachment'. The reason, why they need help with spreading their wings is because those are folded under the carapace and have a little snappy joint, maybe simmilar to an umbrella, that needs to arrest for the wing to work. And they use the appendiges for that. It's actually quite cute.

Brilliant. Your pronunciation is getting better and better. You even got the "ei" right!

Ryan: I didn't know being a sloth was a deadly sin. Every sloth, 10 minutes later: 😐

Platypus can also be Secret Agents.

Ein Naßhorn und ein Trockenhorn spazierten durch die Wüste. Da stolperte das Trockenhorn, und’s Naßhorn sagte: „Siehste!“

Octopus = Oktopus , kraken = Krake and the cuttlefish is the Tintenfisch

Well, in englisch there also is a name of another animal in an animals name: hedgehog. And it's no hog.

Here's the letter for you to copy: ß (or in capital: ẞ) You can also just write ss instead or Alt+225

I notice that your German has become really good. Your pronunciation is good and is getting better and better

An example of a small house carrying snail is the "Weinbergschnecke" (vineyard hill snail), a big one is the "Achatschnecke" (Agate snail). Another fun fact: In Italian mussels are called "cozze", which sounds exactly like the German word for vomit

about the butterfly, she talks about one species of butterfly, zitronenfalter, zitrone mean lemon and thats because of the yellow wings translating falter as folder doesnt fit, falter is an old german word for butterflys and moths

igel = hedge + hog(thats a pig) stachelschwein (just a large hedgehog really) = porcupine from latin porcus + spina so spine/thorn pig most of the mentioned animals are aptly named after their traits. also we(some of us) say rhino and hippo.

The word "mies" in Miesmuschel has nothing to do with "mean", "bad" or "grotty". It comes from the Middle High German word for Moos (moss) "mies". The name is derived from the brown moss-like byssus threads, which consist of a very durable and elastic protein. Also, regarding the question why we call the squid "Tintenfisch" (ink fish) even though it is not a fish. I could ask the same question for "Why do you call the "starfish" or the "shellfish" "fish?" Neither of them are fish either. We call it "Seestern" (sea star) and Schalentier (shell animal).

The German word for cow is "Kuh", but that actually means the female animal. Cattle is translated as "Rind", which means the animal. Beef will be "Rindfleisch", the meat of a cow. You will see that many words in German and English have the same origin. In English, however, the Normans shifted some words into French. (Le bœuf is cattle in French, that's where beef derives from)

When you want to type a ß , you can also use ss

8:29 The "mies" in Miesmuschel derives from the Low German word mois witch means moss (Moos), referring to the byssus (Muschelfäden) ,a secretion to witch the mussles can attach themselves to a solid surface.

Those butterflies she talked about are actually bright yellow, and falter(= folder) is just another, more specific word for butterfly

The etymological translation of cow is Kuh, and that of chicken is Küken. But in German, Kuh only refers to the female animal, and Küken means the newly hatched creature.

The thing is all the animal that life in Europe or came to europe rather early have names that developed over centuries like Bär, Schwein, Kuh, Hund and Katze and so on don't have a "tier" at the end or are a weird combination name. Only animals that were discovered later had to be named somehow and that's how those weird animal names came to be!

12:00 Alaskans will be sad to hear you saying the wolverine doesn't live in the USA 🇺🇸 😁

German keyboards have the ß. If you are typing on a non-german keyboard the alt-code is alt+225. For search engines you can just repalce it with ss.

Love Trixie's videos. Glad you found them! She doesn't do them these days but they're great!

love your content and attitude, its kinda random but I like it. Also very nice that you always link the original video!

Jellyfish=Qualle 😂❤

The English word hippo is not any better than the German Flusspferd (river horse), because hippopotamus is Greek from hippos = horse and potamos = river.

Armadillo, "Gürteltier" is belt-animal. They wear belts...

Also she permanently misstranslates "See" with "Sea", probably due to the two sounding and looking similar. Heavy false friend though, "See" in german is "Lake", while "Sea" would be "Meer". Not to be confused with the same sounding "Mehr" = "More".

You mentioned the _Sea Horse_ while watching, which is acually the same in German, only smaller: _"Seepferdchen" = "Little Sea Horse". ^^ (Pferd, Pferdchen; Mann, Männchen; Haus, Häuschen; Wald, Wäldchen; Vogel, Vögelchen and so on. ^^)

0:40 Here's an example that'll answer your question: Eichhörnchen - squirrel But literally "little oak horn" Austrians would use a different word that still translates to squirrel (duh) but literally means "little oak cat".

Wippsteert (Wackelschwanz) is northern german for wiggle tail. It's a little bird. Official name is Bachstelze.

The octopus is called Oktopus in german aswell, sometimes Kraken. And yeah maybe sometimes people call them Tintenfisch but a Tintenfisch is rather something like a Squid actually. Sure, those animals are related but they are not the same.

She's totally right: DON'T TRUST THE RABBIT (nor a cat neither a cow).

Jelly Fish isn' t a Fish too, and English Speakers called a Jelly Fish 😊

I just remembered the "Siebentöter", Seven-killer. It's a bird that hunts in advance and stores it's caught insectoid prey by impaling it on thorny vines it builds it's nest in. This led people to believe it needed to kill seven insects in a strange ritual before it was able to feed in the first place, thus the name.

At least it's not as bad as in French, we call octopuses and all other seafoods as "sea fruits" as if we can only think with our bellies ever ahah

For "Zitronenfalter" since it is yellow .. in english there are lemon sharks, since they have a slightly yellow tinge. We call them "Zitronenhai" though, as well. A and for your "shielded slug" .. we do that. For tortoises/turtles. Those are "shield toads" (Schildkröte).

How do we type ß? Well, quite simple actually. We have German keyboards. Those also feature other letters like ä, ö, ü. While on mobile you get them by holding down their respective "normal" letter, like a → ä.

The first one would be "belt animal", not "belch animal". The translation from "Falter" to "Folder" ist simply wrong, the word "Falter" means two different things: foremost it is(a type of) butterfly; it can be a folder (a person that is folding sth) but more in a satiric way . But in English there are funny names too: ground hog, hedge hog, peacock, blackbird,...

Earwigs don't pinch the ear. Although they can use the pincers as a weapon, they mainly use them to spread their wings.

All the English Greek or Latin based animal names do pretty much the same. Platypus literally means flat-footed, hippopotamus means river-horse and so on.

for the sharp German ß, you can also type two ss on your keyboard… Flußpferd = Flusspferd

It maybe that Vielfraß(Wolverine) and Meerkatze (guenone) can't be translated literarly because they are comparable to murmel- in Murmeltier and are actually derivates of missunderstood other words. I once read that Vielfraß derived from a word like Fjeldfross which is scandinavian and means Rockcat and Meerkatze mostlikely derives from markaa which is Sanskrit vor monkey. -I didn't know some fish are called Seehase as well. I only know some huge seasnails that are also called Seehase (seehare) and they at least have sort of the shapeof a hare or rabbit. - Just one small addition: In Austria the earwigs are called Ohrenschliefer (earcrawler). They are actually quite usufull in the garden.

I would guess, that the logic of naming animals, that were never seen in Germany by the time is, that they get their German names (around 1800) because at that time there were many German nature scientists and explorers like Alexander von Humboldt and they wanted to explain the animals in a way that the "normal" people (mostly living on a farm or in poor standards) can "nearly" understand, what they are talking about. There were many books and paintings produced of each animal and plant they discovered but most of the population did simply not had access to those at the time, these were mostly used in universities at the time. Today most of those explorers are seen as pioneers in there field (Noting each and every animal, bug, plant they met on their journeys) and also most of them are German, The English and other names may come from a more "natural" way, like living in the same habitat zone or else. So the German explorers tried to be more describing in their naming. I also love that you prove once again, that Americans have no idea of geography. In the part with the wolverine you said, that it does not live in the US, take a look at the map again and tell me this was right 🙂. Just a little joke at the end smart-ass mode off and greetings from Germany. I love to see further opinions from oversees. If you find any wrong grammar keep it for yourself I'm not native English speeking person.

To get the „ß“ just type ALT + 225 on your keyboard. In Germany there is a seperate for this letter

Just as an FYI, since you were pondering about it: the "scharfes s"(scharp s), also known as "eszett"(a combination of s and z) (ß), can be written using alt-code 225 (hold down alt, while typing 225 on the numberblock and then releasing alt). On some keyboard layouts, such as german, it's available more readily :)

Gosh I miss Trixi's videos. She stopped posting about 2 years ago. Very clever and funny content about the German language and a bit more.

I mean a stag beetle in Swedish is Ekoxe and that translated back into English Is Oak Oxen.

Entomologist nerdy fact about the Brimstone: it's the only butterfly in Europe that overwinters as an adult, and out in the vegetation at that. It can be frozen in a mass of ice on some random branch, and survice (due to some glycerine it has stored up in his body). That's also why it is one of the first butterfly species to be seen in spring. Just has to defrost and is ready to get airborne with the first rays of warming springsun. Also, digressing but yeah, German names for butterlies are very creative and funny at times. There's bears too (a whole family even). And birds, lots of all sorts of birds. Nuns. A Drunkard (female). And more. (in general, I came to find that the smaller the animal, the wilder the names. In that, the idea to give them vernacular names besides their scientific one, in an attempt to make them more accessible ant thus more likeable and more likely to be respected did not quite work. My favourite example of that, two quite common sister-species of butterflies: "Braunkolbiger Braun-Dickkopffalter" and "Scwarzkolbiger Braun-Dickkopffalter". (yes, these compound-words again...) Literal translation (about) "Brown-big-headed-butterly with brown poppets" and "Brown-big-headed-butterfly with black poppets". Their scientific names "Thymelicus sylvestris" and "Thymelicus lineola" seem way easier. To me as a professional anyway, but I guess even laymen could agree on that, right? Last but not least, the colour of one side of their poppet in in fact the most important criterium to tell them apart.

concerning the writing of ß - on 'english international' or "english us" keyboards (language/ keyboard setting in windows) this is done via right alt+s while the german letters ö, ä and ü are created using shift+" followed by a o or u. so you press 'shift', hold it and press " then let the keys go and press 'a' to create an ä. also you can usually replace the "ß" with "ss". (or you just open the program 'character map' and scroll through it to get the correct letters and copy+paste them)

How to type the sharp s "ß" in Vielfraß ? We have a different keyboard layout over here that includes it ( next to the 0 button ) and also contains a dedicated button for Ä, Ö and Ü . But just like for Umlaute ( AE = Ä ... ) there is a alternative for ß : Just use ss instead.

How do we make the ß on our keyboards? Easy! There's a key for it! 😅 Sadly she left out our word for seal. Seehund --> sea dog. Which fits perfectly! 😊

How we do the letter ß on our keyboard? It's right next to the 0 on it's own key (which it also shares with the question mark and the backslash)

Guys ... Also like her vid, she deserves

11:48 Alaska: Am i a joke to you?

A wolverine is the only animal that can steal from a polar bear and live to tell the tale. They also sometime manage to take down moose through sheer stubbornness and just not letting go. Related to honeybadgers, otters and co

Falter is a more advanced german word for Butterflys and iths as the whole group 😅 so jeh it is probaply becouse of folding the wi gs together when it in flight or geting warmed up in the sun but it doesnt mean folder as a person thst folds Just means butterfly or moth Schmetterling oder Motte

because you asked how we do ß, german keyboards are different.... look a picture of it :) the letters are nearly always the same just y and z are swapped, but all the marks and special characters are aligned completly different. So if you ever have seen someone who writes: "I'm readz" then it's probably a german with accidently switched the keyboard setting in windows (windows has a setting to have 2 or more different layout settings which they can swap with a keycombo)

My favourite is 'Uhu' for eagle owl. Literally just the sound it makes Xd

in southern of austria we have a more or less forgotten dialekt/nickname calling a BAT a „Radarvogel“ - a radar-bird 😂

Tadpole 🐸 Kaulquappe is also interesting: the Middle Low German quappe, quabbe probably means “slimy lump, wobbly animal, frogspawn” and therefore belongs to the word group “quabbling or wobbling”. There is also a bony fish (burbot or Quappe) from the burbot family with the same name. The word part Kaul- means “ball, thick head”, derived from the Early New High German Kaule (see also: Kaulbarsch, Kaulkopf [= Bullhead] and the Saxon dish Quarkkäulchen). Greetings from northern Germany ♥️🇩🇪

The Falter in Zitronenfalter doesn't mean folding. It's another word for butterfly or moth. So a Zitronenfalter is a lemon butterfly or a lemon moth.

A Butterfly is called Schmetterling the Zitronenfalter is just a type of Schmetterling

„Vielfrass“ may literally translate into „eats much“, but this ignores the fact that the word actually comes from the Scandinavian „Fjell-Fräs“ (or similar), which actually means „Rock-Cat“ (which makes more sense, even though the animal is technically not a cat)

Ryan deine Aussprache wird richtig gut 👍

Firefly, Starfish, Sea Lion, Ice Bear (+ almost every other bear), Great white shark, tiger shark, sand tiger shark, earth worm and so on. You have a lot of these in English too. :D

You can use "ss" for ß Vielfrass or Vielfraß

A shielded slug does not make sense because the snail's shield is called a "Schneckenhaus" in German which literally translates to "snail house".

BTW the ß is the same as a double-s. So street, which is straße, can also be written as strasse.

Well, Zitronenfalter is a specific kind of butterfly. Butterflies are either called Falter if in a compound name like "Nachtfalter", "night folder" as in, someone who folds things at night? But the usual term we use is "Schmetterling", which I suppose would be translated to "little shatterer".

Should be captioned "deer vs Tier" (oh, and Tier is Dier in Dutch). Originally -hors(e) meant warhorse in the Germanic languages, and pferd/paard were the more generic designation. In (archaic) Dutch a warhorse is still a "Ros", like "Ros Bazhar" (Horse Bayard in English)

We call wales sometimes "walfisch" (wake-fish) too

There are also Seestern (sea star - yes, like patrick star in spongebob series) Seepferdchen (sea horse)

11:12 You can add the German keyboard layout (by clicking on _ENG_ on the right of your task bar, and selecting _language settings),_ and type the eszett by hitting the hyphen key (next to the 0 key, not the numpad one) You can quickly change between keyboard layouts by hitting Windows + Space or ALT + Shift Alternatively, you can type ALT + 0223 on the numpad without the need of changing keyboard layouts

The hippopotamus is literally the horse of the river in latinized greek, so nile horse or river horse (nilpferd or flusspferd) is perfectly fine

4:46: Actually, hippopotamus is Greek and translates to horse river. And rhinoceros translates to nose horn. So, the German words are direct translations.

"Falter" can mean folder(to fold paper) but it is also just another word for a big winged insect. So actually it just mean (big winged)citrus insect.

I want to congratulate you dude. Your german pronouciation gets better, keep on exercising. And if you want to type letters like ß, you can can use the transcriptions used in crossword (ß = ss, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue) 😉

Speaking of "sea" animals: English "seal" is "Seehund" in German, which literally is "sea dog". And if you've ever met one, you'll agree that's the most accurate description ever

Holy heck, she cracked me up quite a bit, great delivery and timing 😅😂

9:13 i am from germany, we call it Oktopus too, octo 8 latin, Tintenfisch is an Otter Animation, His Look like an Oktopus but it is smaler. Tintenfisch is a squid

its not only animals, german has so much of that; we call our gloves "hand shoes".

The "lemon folder" is a specific kind of butterfly, which is yellow. But how does a butterfly look like flying butter?

I had Ohrenkneifer in my ear before but they pinch only the outside ... at least with me

I'm intrigued she was able to make the connection between Faultier (lazy animal) and sloth to the deadly sin sloth but not the connection between Vielfraß (much eater) and glutton to glutony.

The letter ß , while called s-z, can be described on the internet or in crossword riddles as a double s.

If the english name sounds like it's dereived from latin or greek, then the german name is usually just that translated into german rhis (greek: nose) - keros (greek: horn) → rhinoceros (greek: nose-horn) hippos (greek: horse) - potamos (greek: river) → hippopotamos (horse of the river)