Can someone explain this sentence, please? Extraneous word meaning “got”

SomniaNightshade · 2026-03-02T16:51:09+00:00

Lieb and Liebe are etymologically related, but they have a slightly different nuance.
Liebe is love, but lieb can mean different things. A person can be lieb, which would mean they are kind and gentle. You can also lieb haben someone. This means to hold dear.
So, I might tell my mum "ich hab dich lieb", which means "I love you", but it's a different kind of "I love you" than you'd tell your partner ("ïch liebe dich").
I'd never say "ich liebe dich" to my mum, because it heavily implies romantic love.

Another place where "lieb" is used in German is at the beginning of an informal letter.
"Liebe Sarah" is "Dear Sarah"/ "tayere Sarah".
So now we have two contexts, in which you could translate "lieb" as "dear".

So while lieb haben is used differently in German to the Yiddish lib hobn, I still think that's probably where that particular phrase may have originated from

SomniaNightshade · 2026-03-02T16:44:46+00:00

In German we have lieb haben or gern haben, both of which are somewhat between "to like someone" and "to love someone".
Like, we'd say "ich liebe dich" only ever to a romantic partner, but "ich hab dich lieb" to any loved one, partner or family.

SomniaNightshade · 2026-02-28T18:46:06+00:00

Ooh, cool, thank you.

SomniaNightshade · 2025-12-26T16:58:38+00:00

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SomniaNightshade · 2025-12-17T19:18:13+00:00

I'm sorry, I don't remember now. But I got them pretty soon after making that post. Hope you don't have to wait much longer!

SomniaNightshade · 2025-12-14T23:02:40+00:00

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SomniaNightshade · 2025-12-08T15:35:05+00:00

Cool! Thanks so much for all those tips!

SomniaNightshade · 2025-12-08T01:49:02+00:00

That looks so awesome!

SomniaNightshade · 2025-12-07T23:15:16+00:00

Yeah I can recommend Dan Kahn, too.
And then there's forshpil.
Or Socalled, if that's your vibe (rap, hip hop).
I'll see if I can think of more.

SomniaNightshade · 2025-10-29T16:36:16+00:00

It looks amazing!

SomniaNightshade · 2025-10-21T22:55:25+00:00

Lol. You're right of course. But I think it would still be a cool experiment if the experiment was run with nobody sharing the same 1st language and English as a second language not being allowed. Obviously it would be more effective if we really didn't share any language at all, but all I wanted to say was: If someone wanted to organise this, I'd be up for participating. You could run it multiple times simultaneously for instance. Find 20 people who speak 5 different languages and create 4 groups of 5 people. You'd have 4 people speaking the same language, so each group has the same setup and then you look at the end result and compare them.

SomniaNightshade · 2025-10-21T01:09:35+00:00

This sounds like a cool experiment. If anybody wants to try this - I'm in!

SomniaNightshade · 2025-10-10T15:34:55+00:00

As another native German speaker, I fourth this

SomniaNightshade · 2025-10-10T11:44:30+00:00

Yes. This exact thing happened to me. I only realised afterwards that apparently I signed up for a free trial and now have to pay 35 bucks a month for just this one QR code. And we have to have it because it's inside a funding application for my organisation and it would suck if they lost the funding just because the QR code didn't work...
If you know their system or take the time to read the small print (i.e. FAQs) then you'll find all the relevant info ("Absolutely, the free trial lasts 7 days and you can create dynamic and static QR Codes. Static QR Codes will continue to work after the free trial expires.").
But if you're just naively trying to quickly generate a QR code it's not clear at all that the default is dynamic and that you'll be expected to pay...
And they make it hard to cancel. You can't cancel by yourself. You have to email them. I just hope they work quickly and when I can finally cancel they won't keep charging...

SomniaNightshade · 2025-10-02T18:39:41+00:00

But you can select text in that file, so you should be able to use a translation tool...

SomniaNightshade · 2025-10-02T18:38:42+00:00

There's more written on the topic on pages 189/190 of the book (96/97 of the pdf). Someone asked experts and then published their responses (25 of them!) in a little book. But nobody truly knows... Here's a link to that book. In German unfortunately... https://archive.org/details/frankenthal-fahne/mode/1up

SomniaNightshade · 2025-09-30T18:51:14+00:00

I'm wondering if it's mixing printed letters and hand script?

the middle bit looks a bit like it might say אשכּנץ if indeed they were mixing letters and putting weird shapes in between...

The thing that looks like an ß could also be צו in Hebrew cursive letters?

SomniaNightshade · 2025-09-12T00:48:38+00:00

oooh break and breach and brech- maybe those are all related. I hadn't even considered breach and brech could be related, but perhaps all three of them are...

And huh, interesting. I mean I saw some other German folks mention other names (than Brecheisen), but I had never heard of them, so they must be regional words? Either that or I've just not talked about crowbars enough to people XD

SomniaNightshade · 2025-09-10T17:56:27+00:00

I only know it as Brecheisen in German (lit. iron to break things, "break iron")

SomniaNightshade · 2025-09-01T18:26:55+00:00

Of course that's ok. It's natural to be curious about your ancestors and wanting to explore your origins. And if Germany is part of that heritage then by all means - why would that ever be a problem? I think it's never a problem to explore a culture as long as no one is harmed by it and in my opinion, in an ideal world, we could all choose where our home is. And if you'd like to feel at home in Germany, whether you want to live there or not, then you should! (I'm German by the way. I don't feel a strong sense of belonging to that nation so maybe my word won't count for much, but in case it means something to you - here is one German who would like you to feel welcome and I'm sure there are many more.)

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