![]() ![]() Take a look at this list of words that will not just improve your vocabulary but make you laugh as well.īonus: Download a free PDF with funny German words 16 Funny German Words And Their Unique Meanings One other handy way to make learning German words easy is to make it fun and by focusing on learning funny German words. ![]() Memorizing German words can be made fun of through a variety of means. Peculiarities and complexities aside, German is amazing and worth learning, because who can hate a language that says, “Until we meet again,” more commonly than, “Goodbye.Learning a language is more than just memorizing vocabulary lists, but building up your vocabulary is an important step towards fluency. It’s funny - all of these words and more exist, but there isn’t a definite one for boyfriend or girlfriend. ![]() Sometimes if I don’t know a word, I try mashing two logical words together to see if they make the beautiful, Frankenstein one I’m looking for.įor example, Fernweh, or distance pain, is used to describe the feeling of wanting to be somewhere Fremdschämen, or exterior shame, describes the feeling of secondhand embarrassmen Brustwarze, breast wart, is a nipple and Handschuhe, hand shoes, means gloves. Oh, and there’s Kummerspeck, or weight gained via emotional overeating. There’s even a word for feeling pressure to make a move when you would rather do nothing, which is Zugzwang. Do you seek a word to describe making something worse while trying to fix it? There’s a word for that: Verschlimmbessern. Moving on from my figurative death, I want to focus on my first point. Sometimes they are so literal it’s comical, and words can be 42 letters long (actually, this characteristic makes me want to die inside). Unique idioms aside, I want to mention some things I absolutely love about this language, such as how German has a word for almost everything. If you’re like me and have no clue what someone is talking about, you can say, “I only understand the train station.” And then maybe they’ll retort with a, “You’re missing cups in your cupboard,” to say you’re crazy. To increase my strain, I attempted to grasp some German idioms for the sake of avoiding sticking out like a sore thumb while living in Germany.įor example, if you want to say that a person is not seeing what everyone else can see, you would literally say, “You have tomatoes on your eyes,” in German. For my feeble English mind, it’s like trying to solve a puzzle when they speak, but the puzzle is being thrown at my head from multiple directions at different speeds. ![]() German has proven to be an enjoyable and challenging language to learn. In English, we have fancy-sounding idioms such as, “Actions speak louder than words,” but we also have asinine sayings like, “Cool as a cucumber.” And, oh boy, does German have some aggravating, although clever, idioms to offer. Idioms are fantastic for presenting wise advice or transferring underlying principles in a culture, but they’re also the perfect tool to make me feel like an idiot, especially in a different country. ![]()
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