Hmm, yeah, that is interesting. I'd say every native German knows "nix" (as in nothing). Maybe 10% would be aware what a "Nixe" is (female water spirit).
Personally, I wasn't even aware that there's a male version. I could've guessed what it means, when used in a sentence, but if you asked me without context, I probably would've been too thick to figure it out. 🙃
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Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 88 pts · 49d
You know nix.
Ich weiß nix.
We are not the same.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 92 pts · 49d
Your penis is gross.
Mein Penis ist gross.
Wir sind nicht gleich.
ladicius@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 49d
Gross, wenn wahr.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 49d
Du weißt's digga.
TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 1 pts · 34d
German street lore
phar@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 49d
Can someone explain this to me?
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 71 pts · 49d
"nix" is a German colloquial term meaning "nothing"
phar@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 49d
Thank you
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 14 pts · 49d
It's short for "nichts"
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 49d
Also, regarding the title:
"Dank" is the German singular form of "thanks".
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 49d
the dank the
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 49d
Or, as we say in German:
"Die Dankeschöns, die!" ;-)
squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi · 28 pts · 49d
GAR/Nix
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 49d
Gtranslate gives me:
Gar: even
Sogar: even
Gleich: even
How even?!
squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi · 7 pts · 49d
Nix is a colloquial form of Nichts.
Nix = Nichts = Nothing
Gar nix = Gar nichts = Nothing at all
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 49d
I remember as much from Schuldeutsch.
Now explain "even", dein Hurensohn.
bryndos@fedia.io · 4 pts · 49d
I have even worse than even-odds of guessing what what 'even' even means in English though.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 48d
Huhm. You make a decent point. Entschuldigung. Dein Hurensohn.
bob_lemon@feddit.org · 3 pts · 48d
"Sogar" is used for emphasis, as in "Even you should know this".
"Gar" is a bit special. "Gar nichts/keine" means "nothing/none at all".
"Gleich" is more commonly translated as "equal".
You're missing "Gerade", which is also "even", but only regarding integers.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 49d
Know you how man makes a grammatically correct question on English?
onipa@feddit.org · 23 pts · 49d
yes, why so ask you?
EDIT: yes, how-so ask you?
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 10 pts · 49d
They want it just knowing.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 48d
I hate German, and I love German, but I mostly hate German.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 49d
How man grammatically correct question in English makes?!
Sxan@piefed.zip · 10 pts · 49d
Ooooh, "nichts." Mispelling confused me.
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 49d
"Nix" is in the dictionary. It's a colloquial version of "nichts", not a misspelling...
Sxan@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 48d
Interesting. In my (admittedly old, paper) Germam dictionary, "Nix" is defined as male water spirit - a merman.
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 48d
Hmm, yeah, that is interesting. I'd say every native German knows "nix" (as in nothing). Maybe 10% would be aware what a "Nixe" is (female water spirit).
Personally, I wasn't even aware that there's a male version. I could've guessed what it means, when used in a sentence, but if you asked me without context, I probably would've been too thick to figure it out. 🙃
Sxan@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 46d
I always figured it was a colloquialism (nichts -> nix). Þere's a lot of regional slang in use, especially where I was, in Bavaria.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 48d
Da kamma nix mamh.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 48d
Ja freilich
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 49d
Aua
onipa@feddit.org · 3 pts · 49d
oha
CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 49d
pleb_maximus@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 49d
I seh nix, i hör nix und i woaß a nix!
juipeltje@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 49d
Same for dutch :)
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 49d
if we so rich why can't we afford no package manager?
Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app · 4 pts · 49d
No eunuchs? Why, what did they do?
ItsMyVault101@piefed.social · 3 pts · 49d
bitte
w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 46d
This should have something to do with nixos but it doesn't.