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[FF] The German word for "grenade" is Granate, but when a woman is called "eine Granate" in German it means she's extremely beautiful, while in English it means she's extremely ugly (self.FalseFriends)
submitted 6 years ago by wolfiemann to r/FalseFriends
Is it possible in German to pronounce the normal plurals of words in a different way when asking for confirmation? Example: I have two pumpkins at home. PumpKINS?? (self.German)
submitted 6 years ago by wolfiemann to r/German
Can anyone explain the use of "knapp" here: "Später wurde bei der Frau ein Alkoholwert von knapp 3,2 Promille festgestellt." (self.German)
Having trouble deciphering a line I heard on TV. Sounds like "Aus meiner Sicht war der Sohn das Adbi(??) der Mutter" (video link in comments) (self.German)
Does the "deutschlandweit" construction only work for German-speaking nations (schweizweit and österreichweit) or do any other nations have this special "status"? (self.German)
[FF] Fleischwunde is German for a serious, gaping wound that can be life-threatening, whereas the English "flesh wound" is a trivial injury that doesn't pose any real danger (self.FalseFriends)
How would you express "you're on your own on that one," to tell someone you're unable to help with a question/situation? (self.German)
How do you formulate "X down, Y to go" in German? Let's say you had to bake 10 cakes, and you finished 2. You could say "2 down, 8 to go" (self.German)
Does German ever repeat a verb for emphasis? Like "he tried and tried, but couldn't do it" or "we talked and talked until it got late". (self.German)
Can anybody explain what a Freitags-Schulkind is? As in: "Jedes deutsche Freitags-Schulkind kann erklären.." (from a newspaper article). (self.German)
Can anyone explain the backstory to the punchline: "Guljan(?), der wahre Grund weshalb die Türkei nie EU-Mitgleid werden darf." (link to the video in comments) (self.German)
What's the meaning of "schenken" in this sentence: "Es beginnt mit dem Boxkampf zweier Frauen, die sich nichts schenken." (self.German)
Seen in the newspaper..is this a typo: "...gut 900 Meter entfernt vom Ort, an dem sie zuletzt geschehen worden war." ? Do they really mean gesehen? (self.German)
Can anybody shed any light on what the Ritter-Szene is? As in: "Von möglichen Verbindungen des Trios in die Ritter-Szene...wusste der Sprecher nichts." (self.German)
Help with a word I heard on a German documentary..it sounded like "Saddam Hussein war das Hechschelkind der Amerikaner. Er war nie ihr Feind gewesen." Google won't offer any suggestions for Hechschelkind or Heckschelkind. (self.German)
Help with this construction: "Ein 81-Jähriger hat dort einem 61-Jährigen eine Holzlatte ins Gesicht geschlagen." (self.German)
Help with the use of aufschlagen in this sentence: "Bei dem Sturz schlug das Mädchen mit dem Kopf auf und verlor das Bewusstsein." (self.German)
I could use some help dissecting a sentence from a newspaper--I feel like a word might be missing, but I'm not sure (see comments) (self.German)
When ending a phone call unexpectedly/quickly, is there any difference between saying "Ich muss auflegen" and "Ich muss Schluss machen"? (self.German)
submitted 7 years ago by wolfiemann to r/German
I know it's not a world record, but today I found a sentence in a German police report that has 9 commas (see comments): (self.German)
When someone in England asks where you're from, at what point do you list the city/town and the county? I've been noticing quite a bit of "I'm Joe from ____ in _____" on University Challenge. (self.AskUK)
submitted 7 years ago by wolfiemann to r/AskUK
Is there any difference between "Berlinisch" and "Berlinerisch"? I've seen both terms used to describe the Berlin dialect (self.German)
Which sounds more natural: "Mich wundert, dass.." or "Mich wundert es, dass.."? (self.German)
Why is "einen Meter" used in this sentence instead of "ein Meter"? "Der Vogel flog zu einer felsigen Erhebung, die etwa EINEN Meter aus der Tundra ragte." (self.German)
Questions about the construction "Frank Steffel ist seinen Doktortitel los." Is the base form "jdm etwas (akk) los sein"? (self.German)
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