Frohe Ostern

Seeing Brits/Americans cringe while they have to pronounce Fuchs is always funny.

​@@sandmehlig Eichhörnchen

@@sandmehlig We think the German fart is

Feli you were correct about the name for these similar words! - at first. 😁 They are indeed 'false friends.' 'False cognates' are similar words with similar meanings across 2 (usually related) languages, but come from completely different roots. These are rare, but a good example pair of false cognates would be English 'day' and Spanish 'día.' Another is English 'bad' and Persian 'بد,' said identically to 'bad' as pronounced in most American accents. By comparison, English "gift" & German "Gift' share the same ultimate linguistic root despite their very different meanings. They are thus 'false friends' but still cognate words. P.S. My hunch is that the German meaning arose from what was initially sarcasm. My dad had a tendency to fart on the way out of enclosed rooms, then immediately say to me, "I left you a Gift."

And my American colleague specifically chose the Hotel Hell in the ski resort in nothern Italy, so that he can say, that he is in hell now :D (hell=bright)

😂😂

An American colleague of mine here in Germany, who can't pronounce the CH in, for example, "J.S.Bach" but instead makes a K-sound, wrote a note advising the flat/apartment he was moving out of stating that the bathroom was "voll gekackelt" 🙈 ("Kacke" is a word for shit...)

That's how its gotta be!

that's a good one =D

I actually overheard a conversation at a car rental in Germany when the lady behind the counter tried to tell the customer that his driving license was not "guilty"... 😆

😂😂😂 👍👍👍

We don't have VAT!

We were taught that you don't say things like "Ich bin kalt" or "Ich bin heiss" as they refer more to sexual feelings. Didn't hear about warm, though. Of course, being high schoolers, we used that to our advantage.

@@flowingafterglow629 I think, it was back in the 80s when "Warmer Bruder" (warm brother) was slang for a gay dude

Da fällt mir mein Vater ein (hatte in seiner Schulzeit nie Englisch gehabt und es so ein bisschen "lernte" - im Leben halt), der einen GI fragte (der zitterte vor Kälte): "Are you frozen?". Der Blick des jungen Mannes - unbezahlbar. 😳😂

And the difference between being something and having something isn't just with temperature. A lot of it obviously depends on the language in question, but for example there are languages where you don't say that you "are x years", but "have x years" when referring to your age.

Spending is not donating. He is speaking english.

An der Nordseeküste gibt es bis heute "Giftbuden", das sind Imbissbuden oder Kioske. Da wird man nicht vergiftet, da "gift es wat", da gibt es etwas. 😊

It's because Feli isn't a linguist and fell for a "false friend" herself when she initially stated that "false friends" were internationally more commonly referred to as "false cognates". She basically thought "false cognates" was just a less colloquial technical term for "false friends". Actually, those two terms of course aren't the same, "false friends" are words in different languages that look and/or sound alike without meaning the same whereas false cognates would be words that look/sound as if they were etymologically related when they actually aren't. The vast majority of "false friends" between English and German would actually be true cognates that share a common origin but drifted apart in meaning.

​@@Kristina_S-OKlingt wie in gewissen moselfränkischen Gegenden des Saarlands oder Frankreichs, also nördlich der dat/das Linie

​@@chrisrudolf9839And "where/wo" and "who/wer" are indeed cognates that funnily look as though they had exchanged their vowels.

"How did you come by that? = "Wie sind Sie darauf gekommen? "Wie kommen Sie darauf?" Woher wissen Sie das? ; become = werden ; bekommen = get, obtain, receive ; gift = Geschenk;

It's kind of interesting this one. I'm no language scientist, but I really like to know where this word originates from. In German there is also the word "Mitgift", which means "dowry". So also a connection to marriage and "giving someone something" here.

Well, for some it's a gift at gifta sig, for others it turns out to be a slowly killing Gift. ;)

Reminds being of being "committed" which either means being in a serious relationship or being put in an insane asylum.

reminds mem of french lesson at school: Fische ohnr etwas zu Trinken sind Gift

Gift komt von Gabe

In the Middle Ages, the meaning was common. The meaning changed later to what it is today, poison! That’s why gift is unwanted in Geman! 😊

Fascinating. Faszinierend.

A bizarre story that is also completle untrue, a fabrication from some 20th century layman who wanted a shocking medieval fun fact. The modern word gift didn't evolve from Mitgift because people would poison wedding presents (if that were the case, what do you think people called poison in German in the middle ages before the term allegedly evolved from Mitgift?!). The truth is simply that Gift is an old form of "Gabe", something that is "given", and poison has to be "given" to someone to be ingested or injected to have an effect.

Erbschaftspulver 😂😂😂

Great :) Such - at first sight shocking - meaning shifts are all around the place. The English adjective "silly" (variant, mostly obsolete, form: "sely") used to mean (in Old English) 'happy, lucky, fortunate', hence 'blessed'. The meaning then shifted to 'pious, innocent' to 'simple, unsophisticated' to 'naive', then to 'foolish'. These stages of the meaning shift can be traced back for a millennium. Needless to say, the English word is cognate with German "selig", i.e. 'happy, joyful, tranquil, blessed, beatified'.

hahaha

Ich habe große Angst, dich zu sehen. afraid, fear. I would say " Ich freue mich dich zu sehen." If you keep it simple you are better off and you will make fewer mistakes.

@@TonyZoster They didn't make a mistake to begin with

Oh, and by the way, in British English "boot" also means the trunk of a car. ("Kofferrraum" in German). And "car boot sales" are fea markets (Flohmärkte).

@@Tinkerbe11 And Booty means something entirely different in American slang.

An entrepreneur would be the word in English for Unternehmer

Reminds me of the joke where a guy got a job working over 800 people, but the company only had 2 part-time people working at the cemetery.

Same! I mentioned this in my first video on the topic. I say "Rente" all the time in German when I mean "Miete" 🙈

Ah yes... mietewagon isn't the butcher's van but a rental car. Very confusing to some of us

Hold on now I'm a American I don't understand what you're saying. 🤣🤣Rente I feel like you're talking shit about us 🤣🤣 and I don't like it someone that speaks German please fill me in 🤣🤣

@@scottbivins4758 the German word “Rente” means pension or retirement in English. The English word “rent” is “Miete” in German, so native German speakers often use the wrong word in either language since “rent” and “Rente” are so similar, but actually have totally different meanings. Watch Feli’s first video on the same topic and you’ll understand 😂

@@sachakorell 🤣🤣🤣 I just feel like when people speak in a different language than me I just feel like they talking trash or something and I know I definitely can't be the only one that feels that way appreciate ya letting me know that wont going down 🤣🤣 i can count on you

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Diesen Beitrag hänge ich mir an die Wand im Büro 🤣Sounds all too familiar.

Then you making a bombing run to the toiletten.

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the "ring of fire"

Blowing out the o-ring.☺

chili burns twice

pregnant with meaning, pregnant silence...

@@sergeyromanov5560impregnable solace 🙂

Pregnant pause

(met the Wife because she was in Latin class with a friend's Future Wife)

I never thought of concise as being figurative, it's short and to the point, no allusion about it.

You could even say, "She's engaged in school activities." I'll admit, the way she says it in the video does make me think of marriage initially, but I think an anglophone would figure it out pretty quickly and you barely need to change the wording for the word 'engage' to be proper.

Engaging the enemy One year later they are all pregnant.

Yeah, or "Warp factor 2, Number One. Engage."

Exactly what I was thinking

"Engagement" has also become a business buzzword. "How can we drive engagement in the new Mentorship program?"

Apparently not quite as slimy, though.

Or Professor Branestawm's device from the story "Ici One Parla die Languages".

I was wondering if anyone would bring up Babel fish (fisch).

I was thinking the same thing! 😂

Me too

( U.S. Army kid here -- in West Germany for K, 1st, 3rd, 4th + college Christmas 1988 & Summer '89 -- got into East Berlin + French Officers Club -- had a steak from Limousin... )

Subway Untergrundbahn/ Under the Ground Train

Nik, how about that "good old English" word, "flak" -- as in "I caught a lot of flak from my boss because of my screw up." FLAK -- from Fliegerabwehrkanone -- flier (or flyer) -- or Flugzeug- [aircraft]) defense cannon. That's the thing I love about English -- when we find a good word or phrase (zut alors! a bon mot!!) lying about, we'll quickly snap it up and claim it as our own, unlike French, which will try to give non-native words the old heave ho, tout suite (or if they're feeling particularly pedantic, tout de suite, or if not toot sweet), n'est-ce pas, mon ami? Jawohl!! You betcha! That's why English has become the lingua franca for much of the world. The English language is sort of like a linguistic Venus fly trap -- any interesting foreign words can get caught and absorbed into English. Oh? As for the French, oy vey! Uff da! Mann, Mann, Mann! Maybe one day our Froggy Friends will chill out and stop kvetching about foreign language intrusion into their pure Francophone tongue and enjoy a little linguistic spicy seasoning.

There is a new series of Das Boot made from 2020 onwards. It's a fantastic show with top acting and amazing scenes. Highly recommended.

It's a movie and got an 6 academy award nominations, hasn't won any. Maybe TV has shown it in parts, but it's a movie.

I AM THE EGGMAN ...Also, dialectical English in Britain, once upon a time, used to have this same word "eyre" for an egg, but somehow it got standardized to egg everywhere and nobody calls them eyren any more.

"Der Eigner" would be the German cognate. Although it's not that often used as "Besitzer" anymore

And, well, the flower kind if exists actually: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoria

Exactly, even the seemingly very different meanings actually are related. Ordinary / ordinär come from Latin 'ordinarius' meaning 'common' or 'normal'. The 'vulgar' meaning in German derives from commoners speaking vulgar in comparison to the upper class. The German adjective 'dick' also has an English cognate: 'thick'. The etymological rule here is that German uses a 'd' where English uses a 'th'. The most obivous example being the articles like 'der, die, das' and 'the'.

@@Skyfighter94 Exactly. The "Great Consonant Shift" that took place in English. "d" at the beginning changed to "th" and "b" at the end changed to "f". A fun example is German "Dieb" to English "thief". "will" and "wollen" are also closely related. I would even argue that the "will" in "Will you marry me?" is a throwback to this original meaning and is correctly translated as "Willst du mich heiraten?" and not "Wirst du mich heiraten?" But who would know that? My favorite cognates are "horse" and "Ross". You would never think of that until you learn the Old English was "hross" and the "r" has simply moved (something that happens rather frequently). A comment attributed to Voltaire (don't know if correct): "Linguistics is the science in which consonants count for very little and vowels for nothing." 😆

@@Skyfighter94 Interestingly enough, in English, "common" can also be used in the meaning of "vulgar". I think this goes back to how the nobility felt about the "common folk". And this also works in German with "gewöhnlich" (the German word corresponding to "common").

My French studies helped with the will, want, wish, need verbs that are similar . Espère will/wish A Besoin want/need Peut will/want There is more to it but I have become less fluent

@@michaelmedlinger6399 Isn't it the English consonants that are older, and the German ones that are the product of a shift? You can see that in the th (or ð or þ) being present in those same words in Old English and Old Norse and modern Icelandic, with that sound having fallen out of German and become a D somewhere along the way.

I'm a Midwestern American and that example Feli used made perfect sense to me. It's not a common use of the word, but if someone used engaged in that manner I think most people would understand it without confusion.

Yeah, "engage" can mean a number of things in English. I've often heard or read that a book or film is "very engaging," meaning it captures and keeps your interest. One can also be quitting one job to move on to a different work engagement, and if one designs gears and cams and such, one might also optimize how well one gear engages another gear. All similar concepts. In fact, I'd say that the "getting married" context is most often determined by context, in English. If I were to say "I currently have an engagement, so I must decline your job offer," you'd know I meant something different than if I walked in with a girlfriend and announced that we just got engaged. Also, since "engaged" can mean "meshed" or "interlocked," in English you can always have the joke of a ship's Captain walking in on a couple of his crew having sex in a broom closet, have them say "It's OK, Captain, we're engaged!" To which the Captain could respond "Well, disengage and get back to your posts!"

In that sentence "she is engaged at school" sort of thing - there is no way a native English speaker would think it is related to marriage! Perhaps the USA is different, but in English, engaged would be more often used in the sense of being engaged in an activity or similar, yes it means "engaged to be married" but only in the context where it would be obvious it relates to marriage. Engaged merely means "to be involved in" so it could be engaged in a subject; engaged in crime; engaged in/to be...... whatever.

The Incredibles uses this for a play on words in the opening sequence - "I have a previous engagement."

Then there's the military version of engagement basically meaning you're in a firefight.

Yeah, that's hardly surprising - the same in Hungarian. Such international words typically entered Central European languages via German, or even if not, their meaning might have been influenced by their German meaning. As for German, many such words (while ultimately of Latin origin) came from French - "aktuell" is a nice example, check the "e" in the last syllable. Polish "aktualnie" is closer to Latin, Hungarian "aktuális" (Adjective) is strikingly like Latin "actualis", but it translates as "aktuell" into German.

Yeah, it's the same in Denmark! So imagine my surprise, that number 10, ordinary in English and in Danish ordinær, has a totally different meaning in German! I mean, it even sounds the same in Danish and German!

@@olevanman3825 The meaning is not totally different. The meaning shifted from normal towards rude. But you can still use it in the old way. An "ordinäre Stubenfliege" would be a "common housefly". Ein "ordinärer Bürger" is an "ordinary citizen". Like the word "vulgar" in English can mean normal or rude.

Unsurprising given Poland's proximity to German speaking countries and, although English is classed as a Germanic language, a great many of its words are derived from particularly French but also other areas colonised by Britain, such as India.

​@@martinfurtner2136Ich glaube nicht, das es zoologisch gemeint, sondern im Sinne von "gewöhnlich".

I just wish she could reduce the decibel level but in USA that probably sounds normal.

Zz

@@Phiyedoughno I’m in the USA and it’s way loud. Sehr laut

What decibel level?​@@Phiyedough

Definitely. It's common in English to speak of someone "engaging" in an activity or being "engaged" with a cause or problem or issue.

When I started learning English, my worst false friends were "where = wo", "who = wer", "bekommen = to get", "werden = to become". 🙈 In my English book, there was a very memorable sentence: "There is a train in my room. If I don't become another ceiling, I will undress." 😂 (correct: There is a draught in my room. If I don't get another blanket I will move out.)

Eine der besten Karikaturen in einem Reiseführer für Amerika in der Rubrik: Don't say that ... Bestellung im Restaurant: I become a bloody beefsteak (should mean I'd like to have a steak, rare)

I remember a joke about false friends: the German in the English cafe: "I am here since twenty minutes - when do I become a sausage?"

“I become 100 Euros.” become = werden . Es werden 100 Euro fuer sie sein. Or Es wird sie 100 Euro kosten. In English "I get 100 euro from you for this speeding..

@@TonyZoster All ist klar!

Exactly. Strong willed people get what they want

The last will. Not the last want.

Isn't that more a military thing? Like, they also use " actual" in radio communications to mean "the team lead is talking". I'd guess that those two are related.

Me as well. This was the first time EVER that I actually ordered something from an in-video ad because I have a lot of use for this for my parents and their nurses who assist them in their old age. These may be a godsend for all involved.

Haha thought the same 😆 if you bought them, let me know if they really work that good! That would be amazing! Then i could finally understand my Brazilian parents in law until i am finally able to be at that level of language learning myself.

I was going to say the same. This video is the prime example of where the advertisements fit very well into the video as a whole. You are almost missing part of the video if you skip the ads

I’ve been waiting for a universal translator like they had in Star Trek for at least 30 years. This is getting pretty close

@@zephram75EXACTLY! My little nerd soul is so happy.

The sea in German is also spelled "Meer". The noun "Mehr" would mean "something extra or additional" (from "mehr" = "more").

"In the late Middle Ages, large lakes were called 'sea' in Low German, and so these names remain. Look "Steinhuder Meer" - a sea in lower saxony

@@vrdriver4508 ...and "das Meer" is also called "die See"

In old English 'Lake' was Mere, as in Windermere

Das Meer, der See oder die See

Happy Easter! 😊

​@@FelifromGermanyFrohe Ostern!

There was an American NBA player named "Ostertag." I always think about him on Easter.

gave the Wife + Daughter Polish-made chocolate bunnies, and to my Mom a Polish-made chocolate lamb -- very similar to the German ones I got as a Cold War era U.S. Army kid in West Germany (got Rugenfisch brand herring + mackeral (ex-East Germany factory on the Baltic from the same "Polish Deli" in Seattle ;-)

Hey, your post is really good (with a few pecularities of course). Though better say "Ich studiere schon eine Weile die deutsche Sprache..." because what you said is "I'm a german student" instead of ""I'm a student of (the) german (language)".

@@AleaumeAnders Entschuldigung, ich habe es so getippt...😅

@@America1776. :D No need to be sorry, one of the (dis)advantages of germans is, to love to correct people. Which is very helpful if you want to learn a language, but can be a tad much in many other cases. ;)

As AleaumeAnders already said "deutscher Student" means German student and the correct term would be "Deutschstudent" even though most people wouldn't use this word and say "Ich studiere Deutsch". Another mistake you made is: "ich passe nur auf meinem Sprachunterricht auf" which translates to "I watch out for my language course" instead of "ich passe nur *in* meinem Sprachunterricht auf" (I pay attention to...). "auf etwas aufpassen" and "bei/in etwas aufpassen" have a different meaning.

Who wants to be my witness to a lawsuit?! 😁

Almost 60, uk citizen, and although I use the short form, I do recall as a kid that I was taught that a million was a thousand thousand and a billion was a million million.

Interesting history lesson!

There's a small hotel near Cologne that is named after it's former owners "Fuck" - actually that name has made a long way to get there. You may have heard of the famous merchand family "Fugger" - in the late middle ages their name was spelled "Fucker", but that changed over times passing. However, in post-medieval Cologne, “Fuck” was a derogatory term for someone who worked for the mega-rich Fucker/Fugger family - which was not that well regarded.

@@GETOBA So nobody really liked those rich Fuckers, nor the poor Fucks working for these Fuckers at all :D

My mother told me that Fucker was a name like Smith. It was every where

The f word in English is essentially slang and no one would write it with a capital F.

@@TonyZoster - now that's Bullshit - many people do write it with a capital F

Or how about besiegen vs. besiege?

​@@DavidWilliams-DSW558 The English are still on their way to winning with this one

You could argue that "beraten" (to consult) often involves parts where you (figuratively) have to berate your customer for all his faults or the stupid things he did. In a nice way of course ;-)

But the cartridge pen is still called a Füllfederhalter as the long official name. The shorter more common name is just Füller. And the case for pens and that stuff is still called a Federtasche or Federmäppchen. So the guy could have guessed it by the context. 🤓 Greetings from Berlin 😎

I thought it is a ballpen

I had this one teacher who always ended his exams with the command "Feder weg!".

@@femtouser4421 ballpen/biro is a Kugelschreiber, yes. But a "pen" with the ink cartridge is called a Füllfederhalter. Literally "fill(able)-quill-holder".

We acutllay learned that difference in english at some point.

We use rubber as the common description but on the wrapper around the rubber is Eraser which is the correct term.

Embarazada/embarrassed is a false friend and a true cognate. Both come from word roots that mean "to have weight put onto you" but in English it's more metaphorical.

I follow a lot of Bundesliga teams on Twitter, which means I see a lot of the same German expressions over and over. I would see "Dicke Chance" constantly.

If it helps: The German word "díck" is cognate with English "thick". When the "th" vanished from continental West Germanic languages, it was typically replaced with a "d" or sometimes also a "t".

Ach das klingt so ordinär!

Which reminds me of the English word for the bird we call Kohlmeise... Check on Wikipedia by searching for _parus major_ .

Interesting! I didn't even know that. Probably because I came to the US when landlines weren't really a thing anymore 😅 And nowadays, cellphones usually just redirect you to voicemail if the person you're calling is in another phone call. In German, this is called "besetzt", by the way.

@@FelifromGermany thanks for the response! The word engaged also means eingerastet or eingelegt, for instance when driving a shift-stick car or changing into reverse gear.

Nice. In the US, the phone was "busy," and you would get the busy signal, meaning they're on a call already. Engaged and busy mean the same thing, really, but that's what we used here.

learned the phone-related 'engaged' while listening to BBC 4 radiodramas on KZfaq...among other British (or Scottish) phrasings / word usages Ironicaly, Linguists tell us the American form is older, preserving the 18th C. usages

(saw a landline phone -- maybe a "Princess" phone in a Stained Glass Window today !! near my Mom's house in Yakima -- St. Timothy's Episcopal Church !!!!)

That's a very good example. I struggled with those too.

Selbstbewusst and self-conscious almost mean the same. They are not practically opposites.

@@elmercy4968 Are you sure about that? Then please explain both in other words to me, I wanna know which of these means something completely different to you than it does to me?

@@stechuskaktus8318 Quite sure. Self-conscious means self-awareness. What in German is "Ich-Bewusstsein". "Selbst-Bewusstsein" means I am aware of my positive features not just of my features in generell. It's a difference but not the opposite.

@@elmercy4968 Interesting. We seem to disagree on both selbstbewusst and self-conscious. In my world, selbstbewust would better be translated to self-confident. You're selbstbewusst if you're pretty sure of yourself and convinced you got this. People who say they feel self-conscious however are anything but that, they feel unsure, awkward, question themselves etc. Certainly not confident. Self-awareness is yet another matter. Saying selbstbewusst and self-conscious mean the same because both are somewhat related to self-aware is quite the stretch.

Or when your car is being towed, the parking enforcement puts the "boot" on your car.

English billion, German Milliarde , billions = Milliarden. English 2,000.00 , German 2.000,00. I have no idea how it is written in US English. I live in Australia and we follow more the UK English format.

I thought it was because you can ask Americans only to remember sooo many things. School system here tends to cater to the lowest common denominator.

the continental version is clearly French in wording the U.S. stayed consistent; Commonwealth switched to Match, and the French switched to be Contrarian...

its simple a billion, bi means 2 its a million high 2, trillion ,tri =3 means million high 3 , quadrilion, quad=4 means million high 4 thats the german version of the translation

@@mariojakel5544 Yeah very good but my comment wasn't about language or maths, just about history

If I play games in the German localization it's often hard to understand the menu, because technical terms are translated freely.

"...the lord Jehovah has given unto you these fifteen *crash*! ten, ten commandments..."

English's "stuff" is a double register word. It can either be extremely low register ("that's some good stuff", "where'd all my stuff go bro!?") OR high register and poetic ("the stuff that dreams are made of", "the stuff of legends", "of sterner stuff than...")

True!!

It would be better if "Das Boot" would have translated into "The Boat".

boat - Boot ( German) . car boot = Kofferraum (Der Kofferraum vom Auto) Kofferraum = sui case space (lit.)

@@TonyZoster cool thanks

Yes, like when a rich person said "Sie ist ja so gewöhnlich" ("she is so ordinary / vulgar").

Kind of like how the "Vulgar" in what's called "Vulgar Latin" actually just means "common," as in how a typical Roman citizen spoke.

In Polish we have a word "ordynarny" - "vulgar" and "ordynaryjny" - "regular" (but it's very archaic). It's really funny how those two meanings are related to - pretty much - a one word.

In fact, that also seems to be the explanation for both German "gemein" - the word actually means "common" - and the English word it is translated to when referring to behavior (of children for instance), viz. "mean": .. which also seems litterally to be speaking about something right in the middle of the spectrum, judged from a rather self-proclaimedly superior standpoint.

@@wheeliebeast7679yup, see vulgaris in the nurseries all the time!

That one is specific to English, using the Germanic terms for the animal but the French loanwords for the meats. Most languages just don't do that, and even English doesn't for "fish" for example.

Exactly! That was the original meaning common to both languages but it has diverged with time. Now Germans and the English use different words to mean the same thing but Germans are closer to the original sense of Karte 😊

Cartography = maps

All these words descend from Latin "carta", which is also where the word "carton", and by extension "card(board)" come from. So yeah, it's just certain meanings falling out of use, or one meaning becoming dominant.

Cartography

I was thinking, "Isn't 'la carte' the word for 'map' in French?" I looked it up and the French word "la carte" seems to have a similar set of uses as the German word "karte". I'm an English speaker who knows a little French (and perhaps a couple dozen words in German). It's interesting to notice that there's a lot of overlap between every pairing of these 3 languages. Some of these German words were familiar to me from French, not English.

Yes, in Proto-Germanic - the ancestor of all Germanic tongues - there was a consonant that sounded just like English "th" in "thick", remaining unchanged (sometimes becoming voiced as in "brother") in English. In German - and also Dutch - it turned into "d", compare the E/G cognate pairs "three/drei, think/denken, thin/dünn, thou(OldE thu)/du, then/denn (also than/dann, with a different vowel and altered meanings), this/dies, path/Pfad, both/beide, bath/Bad, thank/Dank, brother/Bruder, and lots of others. Some other Germanic languages (such as Swedish) turned Proto-Gmc "th" into "to". Icelandic, like English, still has the Proto-Gmc "th". (Often, you get "t" in German corresponding to English "th", as in weather/Wetter, mother/Mutter, thousand/Tausend, or archaic E forms like "hath, saith, loveth" = G "hat, sagt, liebt", etc., but there're multiple reasons, so it's a complex issue.

@@laszlokristo5383 Thank you for this, it was really interesting!

Sorry guys, I discovered a typo: Some other Germanic languages (such as Swedish) turned Proto-Gmc "th" into "to" should be: Some other Germanic languages (such as Swedish) turned Proto-Gmc "th" into "t". My apologies.

So basically you're saying that if you are both "concise" and "embarrassed" while traveling around Europe, then you might end up pregnant. Right? 😄

I wonder if after she said that there was a pregnant pause.

Oh, very pregunta.

@@martensjd Yes, we all had questions.

"ich kümmere mich um deine Nüsse" hört sich aber genauso zweideutig an 🤭🤣

😂

They bleeped both his first and last name on Family Guy, which I thought was pretty funny. Also, I don't think I'm the only wise ass to refer to him as "Penis van Lesbian".

You're not wrong 😂

The scatological sense is the original one but was softened in English.

For your help only. Nothing personel. If i translate your german to english, it´s mean : I since 10 month learn german. Althouht my german is not so good, i practice daily. Next summer, to plan to germany visit for a internship. The real meaning or translation in german is : Ich lerne seit 10 monaten deutsch. Auch wenn mein deutsch nicht so gut ist (you can also use the term "wenngleich". It´s old, but understandable), übe ich täglich. Nächsten Sommer habe ich vor (oder beabsichtige ich) Deutschland für ein Praktikum zu besuchen. Please, don´t be affended. I youst try to help you. I´m german, and want also learrn english.

It’s called factual… one doesn’t really want a lot of emotion in your day to day translations. It’s exhausting!

@@californiahiker9616 I don't know that it does sound completely neutral though, it kind of more sounds bored.

@@conlon4332 I guess robots bore easily! 😂

relegation is when a team from a higher leaugue moves to a lower league. the play off are the matches that decide the outcome. Another word for promotion is Aufstieg.

@@cyrielwollring4622 Yes, but the playoff between the 16th-place 1. Bundesliga team and third-place 2. Bundesliga team is titled Relegation by the DFB. It is not titled Relegation/Promotion or anything similar despite the fact that one team is fighting for promotion (Aufstieg) while the other is fighting to avoid relegation (Abstieg). See mid-field advertising boards from the last two playoffs. Sorry Hamburger SV fans. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mr2fp6ybybGnlKM.htmlsi=rlcD8ufuxGB9kFI8&t=56 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bsWEp8yAz8vLnqs.htmlsi=NGMH8Vk8qAOB7G3k&t=36

Esüecially as she is using a high/standard german accent instead of a bavarian accent as you'd expect from a münchner madl. ;)

​​@@AleaumeAnders Most Munich natives her age don't speak the dialect anymore.

@@alexj9603 I know, that's why I used the word accent in an attempt to translate the german "Mundart". Heck even that might be to much for the very small amount of coloration (twang?) that I hear when Feli speaks (almost ;) proper german. But yeah, even in english you sometimes can hear the "bavarian coloration" with some people. It's much worse with swabians though. :D

You can hear the Austrian accent of Arnold Schwarzenegger to this day...🤔

Indeed, the English modal auxiliary verb "will" derives from an earlier stage when it meant "want". This is still common in the 16th-17th centuries, cf. Shakespeare's play "Twelfth Night; or, What you will". I agree that "Will you marry me?" is a survivor of the Early Modern meaning: as a ritual formula, it's been around for centuries. In German, some forms of the verb have "o" (like "wollen, wollte"), while others have an "i" (like "will, willst"). In fact, this variation in the vowels goes back many millennia, and it is still found in Middle English (e.g. Chaucer), where "will" and "woll", although generally in free variation, unlike in modern German. So, "I want" could be "I will" or "I woll" (I'm using the modern spelling for clarity's sake). The latter's gone, except in the contracted negative form "won't", which - historically - is *not* the contraction of "will not", but that of "woll not". Of such things history is often made. :)

@@laszlokristo5383Interesting, thank you!. I had never understood where the o in "won't" comes from (I thought it's just that wi'n't doesn't sound nice... which may have been one of the reasons why the o variety was chosen).

@@MoritzGruber7 Thanks! There's a widespread misbelief among non-linguists - and, alas, also among schoolteachers (who should know better) - that language, and grammar in particular, have been "conscious" products. For example, when I tell my students that around 1600, "I love you not" was totally synonymous with "I do not love you", and that you can find both constructions in Shakespeare's oeuvre, the typical question is, Who decided that it was "I do not love you" was - well- "more correct". Answer: nobody. It wasn't a deliberate choice: the Dummy Auxiliary "do" just appeared, gaining ground from generation A through B through C, etc. - until it won the game, by gradually extending to further domains. It's much like "Have you passed the test?" VS "Did you pass the test?" Most textbooks will tell you that the former is British, while the latter is American. In fact, Shakespeare would have been at a loss when asked which one is OK. Both were OK, and they still are, at least to some extent. While "Have you passed the test?" is acceptable in Britain as well as in America (though it's less frequent in America), "Did you pass the test?" is normal in America, but it's becoming increasingly common with young speakers in Britain, though older speakers might prefer "Have you passed the test?" - Cf. also "I've just eaten" vs. "I just ate". To conclude, after this lengthy stuff I've produced (or: I produced) just now, the (hypothetical) negative form "win't" doesn't sound odd/unnice at all. The contracted form "won't" was *not* consciously chosen. The forms "will" and "woll" were used interchangeably for a couple of generations - then, a sort of "division of labour" came slowly into existence. The form "woll" became the one used in negation. Many non-standard varieties of English level out the difference between "was" and "were", cf. "we was" (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d7yladGBubzGcoU.html ), but in several of them, mostly in some US dialects, there's an admirable "division of labour": "was" is used in positive sentences (Poirot was there), but "were" is used when negated, usually contracted to "weren't" (Poirot weren't there). There's still much to say, but I guess that's enough for today. Feel free to ask.