German is easy

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29 Comments

Lumidaub@feddit.org · 38 pts · 46d (2 replies)

Have some üüüüüüüüü's, you seem in need.

gedfromgont@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 46d

I'll throw in an ä, ö but also the odd ß.

Noja@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 46d

If you don't have any Ü's available, you can substitute them with "ue", that's also what many German programmers have to do since programming with a German keyboard layout sucks.

CombatWombat@feddit.online · 18 pts · 46d (5 replies)

ice/box/icebox. English is easy too 😎

notso@feddit.org · 8 pts · 46d (2 replies)

Now try that with Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher (Eggshell breaking point causer?)

unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 46d
CombatWombat@feddit.online · 4 pts · 46d

Well you shoulda put that on the Vince McMahon image macro!

EngineX@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 46d (1 reply)

I agree :D

CombatWombat@feddit.online · 2 pts · 46d

I actually have no idea how hard English is relative to German because I haven't studied either as a language student, so I can't actually compare. It was just such an easy layup I couldn't resist.

saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 46d (1 reply)

I’m feeling Krank, call a Krankenwagen to drive me to the Krankenhaus!

PixeIOrange@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 45d

Dont forget your gesundheitskarte!

stoy@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 46d

Same in Swedish:

Coupboard - Skåp

Cold - Kyla

Fridge - Kylskåp

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 46d (5 replies)

Every animal is either some kind of pig or some kind of dog.

pedz@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 46d (3 replies)

My favourite is Schildkröte. A toad with a shield.

beeng@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 46d (2 replies)

Nilpferd.

Horse from the Nile river.

Hippopotamus.

Lumidaub@feddit.org · 2 pts · 45d (1 reply)

Hippo - horse

Potamos - river

beeng@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 45d

TIL!

beeng@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 46d
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Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 46d (10 replies)

What's the refrigerator's gender?

naeap@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 46d (5 replies)

Der - male

Because it's derived from "der Schrank*

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 46d (4 replies)

I know he gets around, but you you didn't have to call him a schrank.

naeap@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 46d (3 replies)

Ok, I know, this is a joke, but I'm currently to dumb

Calling someone "einen Schrank" in German usually means, that he is build like a tank

But I'm really not good at making connections with different languages, so please help me out o⁠:⁠-⁠)

Lumidaub@feddit.org · 3 pts · 45d

You and me, we're both not anglophone enough to get it.

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 46d (1 reply)

It shounds like skank in english.

sidebro@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 45d

Hop in the skanktank

Lumidaub@feddit.org · 5 pts · 46d (3 replies)

The one in your kitchen is masculine. Others may be feminine.

Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 46d (2 replies)

So refrigerators can actually change their gender and swap pronouns?

wieson@feddit.org · 6 pts · 46d (1 reply)

Well, if he decides to lie down he becomes a Kühltruhe cooler chest, and therefore feminine.
But if she grows up into a walk-in cooler she becomes masculine again as a Kühlraum or begehbarer Kühlschrank.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 46d

And if he decides to get a job and work in retail, he becomes feminine again with die Kühltheke

yaw@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 45d

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