das Gegenteil von umfahren : umfahren

Mh hm = Ja Mh mh = Nein Mhm = Ich weiß nicht

Others: German is hard Germans: No, not really Also german: „Umfahren“ ist the opposite of „Umfahren“

Der König von alledem: "Nein?" "Doch!" "Oh!"

You dont want to receive a "Gift" from Germans

"Dings" a german word you say when you forgot the actual word in hope that people will understand what that "dings" is.

As a German person I wanted to read the reactions of people who can‘t speak German… But like 99% of the people in this comment section are German too.

I'm thinking of the false friends: German: Gift -> English: Poison English: Gift -> German: Present

Der, die, das. Wieso,weshalb warum? Wer nicht fragt bleibt dumm. Und jetzt in englisch The the the. Why why why?

"This is a Flammenwerfer - it werfs Flammen."

you forgot the most important word of them all: tja - the german reaction to anything from getting caught stealing cookies to seeing the apocalypse

Most important rule: If it exists, there's a german word for it.

Title has something to do with Germany: Germans: Hans es geht wieder los

The title says "....German..." The Germans: ZUGRIFF

A part of the title: "German" People who speak German: DAT MUSS ICH MIR ANSCHAUEN

"Doch!" - Best german word EVER. If you have an argument with somebody you just say "doch" after he/she finished. That's a single short word for "It doesn't matter what you say and I also don't care about your opinion. You are just completely wrong, bro!"

English: Sea Dutch: Zee German: Meer English: Lake Dutch: Meer German: See German is so confusing to me

Sitzen ein Engländer, ein Franzose und ein Deutscher zusammen. Engländer: Englisch ist die schwerste Sprache. Wir schreiben "London", aber sagen "Landon". Franzose: Französisch ist viel schwerer. Wir schreiben "Bordeaux" und sagen "Bordo". Deutscher: Das ist doch gar nichts. Wir schreiben "Wie bitte?" und sagen "Hä?"

Ja der klassische Moment im Schlafzimmer: "Warte! Hast du ein Präservativ?"

„Welches ‚Das‘ meinst du?“ „Ich habe dir doch gesagt, dass das Das das Das ist, das ich meinte!“

I can't believe you didn't mention in the false friends section that "Gift" means poison in German.

me on the telephone when the other person is very talkative : hallo, mhm, mhm, hm, ja, ach! naja, mhm, mhm, was? boah! ach was. noch was? na denn. und tschüss!

Be sure to not confuse ß and SS. If you want to drink modestly, you need to drink in "Maßen" If you want to drink yourself under the table you need to drink in "Massen"

Can't believe "Schadenfreude" wasn't mentioned. "Damage happiness"... the word even made it into English.

the trickiest of them all is "doch"

As a german I always laugh at the "thing" words. Fly thing, fire thing, sport thing, play thing, drive thing, punch thing, factory thing, green thing, bed thing, ....

never forget our words for "im sorry". we say "Es tut mir leid" which actually means "it does me pain", very poetic!

I love all the "thing" words we have: Feuerzeug = fire thing (lighter) Fahrzeug = driving thing (vehicle) Spielzeug = play thing (toy) Werkzeug = craft/labour thing (tool) Or some of our animals: Nilpferd = nile horse (hippo) Nashorn = nose horn (rhino) Stachelschwein = spike pig (porcupine) Waschbär = wash bear (raccoon) Faultier = lazy animal (sloth) Schnabeltier = beak animal (platypus) And many more. It can be difficult, but oftentimes also hilarious.

Yeah german gets a lot easier when you understand that most of these long words are just two short words connected.

Endlich jemand der Englisch und Deutsch ohne zu starken Akzent spricht.

I like speaking German with my friends. They all can speak German, in fact they are German. I'm also german I life in germany. So many coincidences

I'm german and i got the impression that mostly negative things about the german language circulate the web, like it sounds rough, unfriendly, is difficult to learn and overly complicated. It's really nice seeing it in a positive, funny and native way and i hope it helps foreigners to see it in a different light. We are and used to be famous for our writers and poets, so the language has to be fit for that kind of work and those people also benefitted the language in that regard. On the other hand we are famous for our engeneering and our scinetists so another major part of our language is logical, accurate and descriptive. Our language has multiple different layers which are often overlooked, quite understandably to be honest, and I think the german language is beautiful in its own, rough mantled way. :D

This is a "Flammenwerfer" it werfs Flammen.

Very important..... „doch“ leads you to an endless conversation!

umfahren= running something over but also umfahren= driving around something 😂

You forgot our best word: "Fernweh"

This is a Scheinwerfer. It werfs Schein.

Well, there is also the ultimate word "Tja" which you throw into if u ran out of beer, or a big comet is colliding with the earth :D

„Words can“t describe my feelings for you!“ „Try it in German, we have words for every feeling“ „Okay… ich find dich echt knorke!“

German steht im Titel Deutsche: Ein Volk, ein Reich ein Kommentarbereich

Forget the "Donaudampfblabla" ! These monsterwords are only good for impressing and entertaining english native speakers. The average german would avoid these words if ever possible.

The most difficult to explain german word is definitely "doch" simply because you'd have to write an entire essay to cover how it is used.

I still get cracked up about "hand shoe", even years after first hearing it. It's just so hilarious and accurate at the same time.

Hundred in German means "Hundert" Thousand means "Tausend" Million means "Million" Billion means "Milliarde" Trillion means "Billion" Quatrillion means "Billiarde" Quintillion means "Trillion"

"Hä?" ist ein vollständiger Satz uff Hessisch! "Ich habe Sie nicht verstanden, können Sie das wiederholen?" 😉

My favourite sentence: Die, die die, die die Graffitis gemalt haben, beobachtet haben, haben sich bei der Polizei zu melden.

I just had to give you a thumb up. I always loved 'The awful German language' by Mark Twain. Do you know why it is great to be a German? You don't need to learn this language.

Brathering is a type of fish that's been pan fried even if it looks like an english word

Verschlimmbessern. When you try to help, but actually make it worse

German words that look like englisch words... „Brathering“😂

Oh my God 😂 I'm German native speaker and I have to admit I never ever thought about the real meaning of Flugzeug or Fly.... Thing. It's so common and daily used word. Wow, that blows my mind. Same as Shine.... Thrower 😂

"Doch" is one of the best words we have!

The compound words can work really organic: "tomorrow" means "morgen" "more than" means "über" "the day after tomorrow" means "übermorgen" [über-morgen, see?] "yesterday" means "gestern" "before" means "vor" "the day before yesterday" means "vorgestern" [vor-gestern, see?] If needed you could even go freestyle and just say überübermorgen [über-über-morgen] and natives will understand you without any irritation.

One of my Canadian friends who visited Germany thought that German "fart" a lot, as in Einfahrt, Ausfahrt, Umfahrt, Zufahrt, Fahrt ins Blaue, in voller Fahrt, in Fahrt kommen, and many more. No further comments needed.

Rachael is the best😂😂😂 Introducing everyone to German culture in a funny way but highly informative

"Gymnasium" and "praservativ" in Italy has the same meaning, we say "ginnasio" and "preservativo".

"German" in the Title -> Übernahme der Kommentare

Dingsda beschreibt einfach alles!!!

This is my favourite out of all your videos. Every language is tricky ...has lots of " mouse traps". I m a native German speaker but grew up in Belgium. Had to learn Dutch, lots of false friends similar to German but different meaning. Than the second language in Belgium is french. The spelling, grammar and the prononciation for a German speaker is a huge challenge. on top of that English. But the English you hear mostly is American English ...( music, sit coms etc) It was a language mission impossible. Even though I m adult now ...acquiring a new language requires a lot efford ... but it s worth it. Thank you Rachel. I just discovered this 3 years after it was released. It doesn t matter. A youtube video full of quality is a joy forever.

Craziest one for me yet 😂 😂 English: Gift = Gift German: Gift = Poison

Yeah, sometimes we aren’t exactly Creative with Names for Animals either: Sloth = Faultier = Lazy Animal Skunk = Stinktier = Stink Animal Platypus = Schnabeltier = Beak Animal.

Bismarck biss Mark, bis Mark Bismarck biss. "Bismarck bit Mark, until Mark bit Bismarck."

Excellent videos, each and everyone of them! Always interesting and creative and not to mention informative.

Brilliant, I very much love this series! Merry Christmas to all of you!

I couldn’t live without the word „doch“ which does not exist in the englisch language

I (as a native german speaker ) love those english videos about german language XD its such a funny and refreshing view

Der "Shine thrower" hat mich gekillt! 🤣🤣🤣

I detest the need to formulate such silly, overly long words; especially when there is the Bindestrich (hyphen) which can be used in the German language (I have seen it sometimes). It does not change the meaning of the word either - just makes it so much easier on the eyes to read. I am an American who does speak fluent Austrian German, but still find it detestable when I am reading. So usually what I do when I am reading a magazine or a newspaper, and can write in it - I just put slash marks where one word ends and the other begins. It sure makes it easier to read. I think that creating extremely long words in German is in my opinion sort of a challenge for the authors to see who can create the longest word, although it is not much fun for the readers.

In german language, the comma is saving lifes. "Ich esse gerade, Opa." > telling your grandpa that you are eating right now "Ich esse gerade Opa." > telling someone that you are eating your grandpa right now

The German word for ''the drum'' is ,,das Schlagzeug'', which translates literally as "the beating thing" LOL #WirliebenDeutsch

Love it! I shows this to most of my tutoring students as an introductory video. 😁

This is why I love learning German! I may be quite bad at it, and I get frustrated often, but it’s a beautiful language that sounds quite funny at times.

So two years ago I gave up on German because I was taking my english final exams. At some point at school I had given a text written german and the word die was all over the place and I was like "how many people die in this text is that even legal?"

Zeitform des folgenden Satzes: " Ich sollte nicht geboren werden." - Präservativ Defekt ;)

Dingsta-Bumsta... That word rocked my world

Great video! Concise and informative and quite interesting :-)

Jein=Kinda yes,kinda no.Yes or no with conditions

Wenn ich den See seh', brauch' ich kein Meer mehr! When i see the lake, i don't need the sea anymore!

There are a few words in German that I remember learning by making a mistake. Luckily most waiters and waitresses speak English but never ask for a "menu" because you may end up getting the set meal for the day (das Menü). The German word is "Speisekarte". Make sure you know the difference between the pronunciation of "schwül" (humid - as in humid weather) and "schwul" (gay). A wonderful word is "gleich", when referring to time. Wave to a waiter and you will almost hear "gleich". It is used to describe any period of time from about 30 seconds to 30 minutes. Incredibly unusual for such a precise language as German. Having learnt French before I learnt German, I thought that knowing the masculine and feminine nouns would make it easier to learn German which has masculine, feminine, and neuter. Then I noticed that it actually made it more difficult. In French the sun is masculine and the moon is feminine and in German it's the other way around. When throwing or trying to catch something, saying "missed" will get you a laugh or two because "Mist" in German means manure. Don't go singing Mull of Kintyre either. The words "Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea" will get you even more laughs.

One of the best word in german is: "Tja". The emotional span of that word is just incredible. It can be very mean but also very peaceful. Like if someone you don't like has bad luck and you say "Tja...", it can mean: It's your own fault, what comes around goes around...etc OR someone you like has bad luck and you try to comfort him, you say "Tja..." and it can mean: I'm feel sorry for you, i hope you'll be better soon...it's magnificent but i think it is hard for someone who didn't grow up here.

it is even funnier when you start using the punctuation mark: "Er will, sie nicht." or "Er will sie nicht".... total different meanings. "He wants her, she doesn't want him." or "He doesn't want her"

Never heard anyone calling a "Kondom" "preservativ" .... xD

Nice and funny video.. please continue series

Ich habe mir nun ein paar Folgen am Stück angeschaut, welch wundervoller Humor! Habe oft und viel lachen müssen. Danke dafür!

''German language is so hard'' me: ''hold my Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz''

I'm German and I just realised how cool my language actually is XD.

Also some difficult words often used in grammar: Nominativ,Akkusativ,deklinieren,Konjunktion,and Präpositionalobjekt

Great videos again Rachel.

...and no, the "Karnickel" is *not* the five cents coin for the parking machine😄

short german flirt: he:"na?" (wanna go out?) bavarian girl:"na!" (no) ...

I like Wedding: Hochzeit = high time Cemetery: Friedhof = peace yard

Ich könnte jetzt nicht sagen ob Rachel Stewart Englisch oder Deutsch als Muttersprache gelernt hat. Anhand des Nachnamens denke ich Mal Englisch, echt schön ihr zuzuhören egal welche Sprache sie spricht.

I spent a short time working in Germany in the 90s in Darmstadt. The place I learned to really speak German was the Korne bar where nobody spoke English but most had criminal records or drove trucks. My teachers there took a holistic approach of beer, sausage, bad jokes, lies & falling off bar stools to finally make me realize the German language was fun & necessary if I wanted to reciprocate! Danke!

Western Nations: The German language is tough Slavik Nations: LOL, very cute. Hold my beer

It is so interesting how many words in the German language are close to Portuguese. When she said “Gymnasium was a type of school”, it reminded that back in the 60´s when used to use the word “Ginásio” for what today is called “Ensino médio” (secondary school, I guess!?) We also use Gymnasium (Ginásio) when referring to a place where you play indoor sports like Basketball, Volleyball, etc.

My favorite: "Hoppla !"

Präservativ? Ja gut ... Ich tu Mal so als würde ich das Wort kennen ⚆ _ ⚆

I love words like "Enttäuschung" meaning "disappointment", but you can actually also see it as de-deceit as in being stripped away of a deceit or a deception. German and english have lots of words like that and that is why I love languages!!!

"ne" at the end of sentences also has the following meaning in some regions: I would like to finish this conversion with you now. Not to be confused with "nu" which means yes in some regions.

My mom has that exact same Philips radio! That was a childhood nostalgia trip :D