Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei - Everything has an end, only a sausage has two
Schwamm drüber - dont worry about it (literally means "sponge about it")
salonfähig - socially acceptable (literally "salon-ready, salon-worthy)
Fremdscham - vicarious cringe/embarassment
Fernweh - away-sickness (opposite of homesickness, which German has too - Heimweh)
verschlimmbessern - to make something worse in a genuine attempt to improve it
Treppenwitz
Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei - Everything has an end, only a sausage has two
This is fucking great
Treppenwitz is good, but its technically a calque of a french saying.
This is fucking great
I know its my favorite phrase probably in all the languages ive encountered
I know its my favorite phrase probably in all the languages ive encountered
Something about it just appeals to my Finnish brain, maybe it's just that it involves sausage
Is it true in finnish that "kuusi palaa" has 9 meanings or is that just a meme
Working it out in my head and I think I'm at 7 already, it's probably true
Edit:
- Your spruce burns
- Your spruce returns
- The six burn
- The six return
- Your moon burns
- Your moon returns
- Six pieces
- piece of spruce (partitive)
- piece of your moon (partitive)
goddamnit you're right
my moon burns for your piece of spruce to return har har wink wink
We have the sausage one in swedish too.
Allting har en ände, korven den har två
It is, and it's such a beautiful word. Even beats Weltschmerz.
Krankenwagen - ambulance
Bürgermeister - mayor
Edit: I thought you said funniest sounding words, but I stand by my statement.
Handschuh - gloves, literally "hand shoe"
Fausthandschuh - mittens, literally "fist hand shoe"
the kazakh word for shoe is "foot clothes" lol. Like its logical but its like cmon have a little imagination lmao
i mean its like the quintessential German borrowing in English right? Right up there with Zeitgeist or Gestalt. Idk they're rly good with those kinda interstitial emotions. Truly a "Sprache der Dichter und Denker" - language of poets and thinkers
sturm und drang
entscheidungsproblem
gedankenexperiment
schnitzel
stein
uhhhh
eigenvalue
zeitgeist
oh fuck u already got zeitgeist
I love how you listed all these philosophical terms and then schnitzel and stein lol
Entschuldigung mein Herr das ist ein christlicher Server
Satanismus zählt als Form von Christentum, oder? :anarchist-occult:
Ghupft wie gsprungen- when two ways of doing things are equal, literally "jumped or lept"
