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The sentence I saw this in der sendung mit der Maus is a valid argument in germany to finish a discussion
If it's in Sendung mit der Maus, it's legit.
-.42 is how Cent are declared. it's not "minus point 42", but "blank point 42".
It is the so called "Halbgeviertstrich" and is a totally different sign than minus( - looks totally different than - ).
Halbge-was-strich?
I learned something new about my own language. Thank you. I only knew it as the "Gedankenstrich". It even has its own page on the german Wikipedia.
For non german speakers, the syllables in this word are Halb-ge-viert-strich.
PS: My phones keyboard also has the "Geviertstrich" in it, when I long-press the "-".
@@Matty0311MMS I also learned it very recently. I wondered why this exist and how to use it correctly, because i needed to issue some reciepts and didn't want to do anything legally questionable. So i researched it and learned about the "Halbgeviertstrich". And how many people simply use the wrong typographical sign for it. For example: In the picture they seem to use the minus sign, what is technically wrong. They also use it in front of the value, what isn't wrong, but technically redundant, because the sign represents double zeros - and you usually don't write 00.49€.
The - basically means 0 so 0,42 or -.42 is the same
"Halbgeviertstrich" is my new favourite German word. It just kicked "Glottisschlag" off the throne.
Btw: I'm German.
The 116117 is included in your general health insurance, you don't pay anything extra in Germany.
That's not true. You pay 10 Euro/day in hospital for 28 days. But nothing like in America. And you pay 10 Euro for an Ambulance and if you need medication you pay a little part
A few years ago I had a panik attack. My Partner was helpless, because I knew (and told him), I was getting enough oxygen, but it just felt like suffocating. So he called 116 117 and they could look up my medical condition and send an ambulance. The paramedics gave me the choice to stay at home or to drive me to the er. At the er I also had the choice to go home or stay at the hospital for observation. I stayed 3 nights, got some treatment. Thanks to covid I had no visitors and I didn't had my phone with me. In the end, the best was 2 days of really nothing to do and nothing to worry about. No phone, no TV.
The call was free, the ambulance cost 15€, the 3 nights were each 10€.
45€ in total. (They even had toothpaste and a toothbrush provided)
@@Landra372 : Like everyone who has an income in Germany but, unlike Americans, it sounds free!
@@Landra372 Calling 116117 is free of charge.
All other additional payments depend on the actual type of treatment.
And this service number should become even better known, as unfortunately far too often people with health problems that can be treated at home show up in hospital emergency departments.
The employees on the service telephone number will clarify whether the visit is by a doctor or an ambulance. is needed.
And yes, there are still doctors who make home visits.
A few years ago, our family doctor visited us 3 times in 2 weeks because we had contracted salmonella poisoning and it was simply not possible to leave the house to go to the practice.
@@Landra372 Wait. What has a hospital stay to do with 116117? You call 116117 to not go to the hospital...
the reason why germany has different names is that different countries had contact with a different german tribe. alleman,Teuton,German and the best tribe, "foreigner" from the east
Saxons?
Best tribe are the frisians, because we still exists 😅
Lewer duad üs slav 😂
@@EngelinZivilBO well the sorbs too, jews too, szinti, roma, yenishe, silesian and danes. all german-ish indigenous.. or the franconians too i think
@@EngelinZivilBO Bavarians still exist too, as do the Allemans in Baden-Württemberg, the Saxons, the Angles (both in Northern Germany and England).
Hell, most if not all of the old tribes still exist because they didn't die out or were eradicated.
Of course, pretty much none of the original culture of our tribes survived the past 2000 years.
@@firekeeper1870 i don't want to disappoint you, but in fact the Frisian are the only surviving tribe, that's not my opinion that's science 😁
Let me put in German, die Friesen sind mit den Sorben die einzige existierende volks Minderheit die sich ihre Kultur und Sprache bewahrt haben (noch)
6:51
My little daughter and my wife were flown by helicopter from the holiday island of Borkum to the nearest city on the mainland due to suspicion of concussion. The fun only cost us 10 euros. Truly an affordable North Sea sightseeing flight.
I'm pretty sure you didn't feel it funny at the time...
The -.41 means 0,41€, so 41 Cents. The - in frot of the Price means 0, it's just the way it is being written mostly.
It also helps against easy manipulation or confusion with just a number or something looking like a number in front of the 0.
We have a similar NHS service in the UK by ringing 111 when you just want to talk to someone about whether you have a serious medical condition or not. This is as an alternative to 999 (US 911) which is a Paramedic response.
I used it two weeks ago. First got through to someone who was obviously not a Doctor or Nurse but went through a detailed questionnaire with me, obviously using an on-screen computer system to direct her. She said she was passing me on to a A & E (ER) nurse who rang me back within 10 minutes, she went through a triage questionnaire with me and determined that I needed to go to Hospital. She contacted the Paramedics and got feedback that because I wasn’t high priority e.g not having a heart attack, stroke, bleeding profusely, the Paramedics may take up to 2 hours but if I deteriorated then ring back as I was logged on their system and they would respond. To cut a long story short they came in 2 hours and 15 mins, I spent 3 days in hospitals
and am now doing fine. God bless 111 and as always under the NHS, all totally free of charge.
116117 is also the number in Finland if you need not really an ambulance , but are worried whether you can wait until morning ; you'll get to speak with a professional and get advice of what to do. And in Finnish the word for Germany is "Saksa" , from the Hansa-merchants from Sachsen..👍
Thanks (and thanks).
I did never hear of 116117 in west or east germany.
116/117 is also in Germany the number, you dial für contact with a doctor to clear, whats wrong, you need an ambulance or a visit in an ER. Lots of problems dosn't need an ambulance or ER.
by the way, Germany is since 34 years not more seperatet in east and west. It's only one country since 1990.
I apologize for my Bad english, i have only 2 years in school english
1:42 During normal working hours, your family doctor (German: Hausarzt, literally: house physician) is obliged to make home visits if going to the practice is not possible or reasonable due to illness. 116117 are on-call doctors when your family doctor's practice is closed (weekends, public holidays or when your family doctor is sick or on vacation). In acute cases at night, you might only go to the hospital or call an ambulance (112). In contrast to ambulances and hospitals, 116117 is usually carried out by resident doctors. Resident doctors (German: Niedergelassene Ärzte) of the area organize themselves
the - is used instead of a 0 to prevent manipulations. a 0.99 can be changes into a 90.99, but you cant change a -.99 into a 9.99 without noticing it (for hand writen numbers)
10 euros is the typical payment for an ambulance here, that a transported person has to pay (the main cost is covered by the insurance by law). 'Mahnkosten' for an invoice only appears if you pay the bill to late.
Now I'm waiting for "Next Week in Germany" xD
The reason for the different names are, that in Latin, the people settling in today's Germany were called Germanii. That's, where English, Italian, Greek and Romanian took their word from. But the Germanic tribe of the Alamans was settling in today's Southwest Germany at the upper Rhine, and thus, all countries Southwest of Germany call it Alemannia or something similar. The Old German word "deot" (alternative spellings like duit or theod are also possible) means people, thus the German people called themselves "deotse" or "Deutsche", and their land "Deutschland". So do all other Germanic languages like Dutch, Frisian, Swedish, Danish or Norwegian, the latter using the Old Norse variant Tysk (from Old German deotisc - of the people). The Slavic tribes were naming their neighbors "without tongue": Ne-mečy, as they didn't speak Slavic. Hence the variants of the "Nemečko"-theme all around Eastern Europe. And the Finns, the Samic people and the Estonians? They encountered the (Nether-)Saxon seafarers and trade ships first of all Germanic tribes, hence their name for Germany is Saksa.
Sorry but the word for German in Italian is Tedesco not Germano, which is a first name for a person in Italian. However, Germany is Germania.
@@maxharbig1167 tedesco comes from old german diutisc/deot/tysk etc. so italians took germania from latin for the country and tedesco from old german for the people.
hmm if Germano is a first name and i know Tedesco can be a last name, then somewhere in italy there is a Germano Tedesco. the most german of them all!
In Japan, Germany is call 'Doitsu' which means 'Deutsch'
I always thought the "Deutsch" part came from another germanic tribe the "Teutonen" Teuto ... Deuto ... Deutsch
@@maxharbig1167I didn't claim otherwise. :)
As a german the 116117 is a short call to a doctor that is for things you need when your usual doctor has no office hours, but it is not life-threatenign so you need a ambulace. In most town you have a lokation where you can go on weekends daytime ect. called "Bereitschaftspraxis" and it is usually included in you health insurance. Sometimes you have to pay a single time payment which is 10 Euros per visit. But compared to american bills for doctors.... But you are forced to have a health insurance here in germany in it is payed in a fixed percentage of your income. So you hece less net.income, but you alos have to pay less from it, in case you are sick and need help.
I called at 116117 because I had a panic attack at 3 am and I also had a female doctor with a male nurse at my housem They gave me a sleeping pill and I slept like a baby.
Reminder costs are added to an invoice if you forget to pay an invoice.
6:50 "I speak 000" made me laugh more than it should xD
Yes, I had to smile, too. I like his humour.
In the U.S., if you have a number 0.xxxx, you often write .xxxx instead. In Germany, you replace the 0 by --, thus 0.xxxx turns into --.xxxx It is actually not a minus sign, but a long dash, crossing out the numbers before the decimal point.
It is the so called "Halbgeviertstrich"(-) and looks completely different than the minus(-). I am pretty sure in the picture they used the wrong typographical sign. Also it isn't very common to use them in front of a value, because it replaces double zeros. At the end you wouldn't write 00.xx. That's why it isn't common anymore, while technically not incorrect.
@@delqyrus2619 the dashes are a contentious topic. There is the minus sign − , the en dash -, the em dash -, the horizontal bar ―, the figure dash ‒, and the hyphen-minus -, the latter the single one used on most keyboards.
And those are only the ones used for latin scripts. Other writing systems can have different lines from those.
Oh, but the biggest issue with the sign is that they used a decimal point, when a decimal comma is to be used, and omitted any and all forms of unit.
@@HappyBeezerStudios You should be able to use the Halbgeviertstrich on the Keyboard by pressing [alt gr]+[-] (not the [-] on the num pad).
But you are right, there are a lot of dashes. But in this case the Halbgeviertstrich would be appropriate.
And you are right, in Germany the decimal comma is common. I didn't recognize that they did even that wrong. 😆
@@delqyrus2619 "completely different" seems a bit to strong of a statement, in my view. I can certainly see some similarities between "-" and "-" ;)
@@PhilosophischesVersuchslabor Yeah, there are also clear similarities between humans, but nobody would say they all look the same. 😉
Of course that was a little bit exaggerated, but the difference between - and - is clearly visible.
The fact that Ryan knows the name of countries in the EU is amazing.
Oh the "Bärtige Mann" is a Ryan fan? Hi! ;)
@@crazy_sauer hallo :D
Well, he missed Sweden. Means he pointed on Sweden and called it Finland. But to be honest, if I get 30 out of the 50 US states right first time, I would be glad.
5:00 it's not negative. For prices like 5.00€ we write 5,-- or 5,-. Just writing a dash for the 0. You can more quickly write it by hand. It can also be in the front, as you saw. -,50 or --,50 for 50 cents.
I worked the 116117 service on sunday. Its a nice additional job but there was hardly any work and i sat around in my office and did some paperwork. You get like 100-140€ for each visit from the insurance. so when there are 10-15 patients in one shift then its quite good, but I had 3...
What are you talking about? You´ve earned 420 or at least 300 euros for sitting at a desk for 8 hours, doing some phone calls and paperwork? That´s 37.5 Euros per hour of doing "nothing"! If you would do this Job for 20 days a month you would get at least 6000 Euros and at best 8400 for 20 days of working per month! Thats way more and a few thousand euros above than the average german worker (bus driver, factory shift worker, teacher, policeman, ambulance drivers, construction worker and so on) earns during a month of really "hard" labor outside, operating machines, driving cars, in the rain, getting dirty, blisters, sweating, teaching hundreds of kids or driving people as fast as possible to the nearest hospital.
10 people in 1 Shift is "quite good"??? I´m sorry to rain on your parade, but earning at least 1000 Euros on One day is not just "quite good!!! It means that you could earn 25 000 Euros per month, 300 000 a year and a million within less than 4 years!
To me that seems quite amazing for sitting close to a phone, computer and coffee machine and answer some phonecalls and do some paperwork. Please try to change your perspective!!! Within just 4 years you could buy a beautiful house and your dreamcar (using german standards), an achievement many hard working germans have to work 10 to 20 years to reach it!
Yes the negative before the decimal point just means zero 0 euros man !
Lot of engagement over a few cents😂can't get more german!you all have a nice day!❤
Wer den Cent nicht ehrt ...😂
9:20 The country next to Norway is called Sweden and not Finland.
technically finland is also next to norway, but yes
Yes, up in the high north all three share borders.
"The door has a handle!" is also quite common instead of letting it just close itself with a *CLANK! *CLONK!* :D
The different names for Germany result from various sources and areas of contact throughout history. The indigenous word "Deutsch" originates from Old High German, essentially meaning "of the people" (cf. Dutch). Some neighbors adopted names from ancient Germanic tribes, such as the Alamanni tribe in the Southwest, as well as the Teutons and Saxons in the North. The English name "German" is derived from Latin, based on a term the Romans used for a bunch of Germanic tribes (although no specific tribe likely used that name). The Slavic names are kind of funny, since they simply mean "mute", i.e. "unintelligible". Basically, they call the Germans "Barbarians" 😄
What does explain his pronunciation of other languages or calling Sweden "Finland"?
@@0xFAB10 temporary confusion or pure ignorance. maybe a combination of both?
I learned a few days ago that deutsch or "die Deutschen" was originally a word for the people in the middle age who lived in the area of modern Germany and did not speak Latin
We have a similar service in Austria, 1450, which wasn't so well known to people before, but got promoted a lot during the pandemic. They're awesome. I had a doctor come to my house one night during summer 2020 and I have called them when I wasn't sure whether to call an ambulance. They talk through your symptoms and will send a doctor or an ambulance depending on the over the phone diagnosis.
My father (a doctor) is doing those house visits. Sadly it's unbelievable for what some people call a doctor at night. Their mother didn't drink the whole day and he had to go there at 2am sitting there for 1h till she drunk a glass of water. Or people who don't want to wait at the doctor call for a house visit. So while it is a nice thing that you can get a doctor if it is needed but people abusing it, is a real problem these days. =(
And then the next call is to an old farmer who "doesn't want to bother" an ambulance just because he semi-amputated his foot. He stopped the bleeding with duct tape, so "he's fine" and wanted to wait till Monday to go to his GP. But now that he's barely conscious his "hysteric" wife called someone, anyone...
Same with the 112. Some people are crazy. Unfortunately you can't ignore them, or you'll be in big trouble, if they actually had an emergency.
As for the names of Germany, that has to do with Germany being Germany only for the last 150 years or so. Before that it was... difficult. A lot of the German names stem from the time when it was a very diverse bunch of tribes. The German term "Deutsch" comes from the old German word "diutisc" which means "of the people". The Latin term "Germania" (that is also used in Engish) came from the Roman Empire. What is now France was settled by the Gallic tribes and what is now Germany was settled by the Germanic tribes. The French and Spanish name came from the "Alemannen" a tribe that lived in what is now South Western Germany. The slavic term (all that starts with "nim-" or "nem", purple on the map) is difficult to pinpoint exactly. There are two major theories. One claims that the names for Germany derive from the proto-slavic word for "foreigner". The other theory claims that the name stems from another German tribe the "Nemeter". Some others still call it after another German tribe, the Saxons (which by the way is the orgin of the saxon in anglo-saxon).
Btw. there were more German tribes that found their way into the languages meaning something different. There was for example the German Tribe of the "Vandals". That name was assoicated with wanton destruction after the Vandals sacked the city of Rome in 455 A.D.
It is not complicated. Before 1806 it was the German Empire, since 962. Since 919 it is a country, the German Kingdom, upgraded to legit Empire in 962.
If the ambulance is not an emergency you also have to pay in Germany... i had a "car accident" where i was hit by a car as a pedestrian and since i was bleeding pretty badly i called an ambulance and was taken to the hospital.... because the EMTs filled out something wrong my insurance said it wasn't an emergency and they sent me a bill... i mean it was 48€ and a quick call to explain them what happened and they told me i didn't have to pay... but there's still instances where you do have to pay for an ambulance in germany (it's not all that much though)
About the county name, it's pretty normal, that it is called different around the world.
Another example the famous country called Nippon (Japan).
Ah, good ol' Yamato! ;)
"Why don't you call Germany 'Germany' , even in Germany?"
Let's think about that for a millisecond!
Maybe it's because that's English?
My primary care physician ( here in Germany)makes house calls. My neighbor’s husband had the flu so badly. He made it into the office but the doctor refused to allow him to come in for follow ups. The doctor, checked on him at home to make sure he was improving at the end of the day twice that week.
You call the hotline also when your have medical questions and don't know if you should call an ambulance. They help you and either they send you a digit or have a doctor call you and talk to you if it is not necessary that he would come to you. 24/7 it's really nice and it takes great if the emergency number for real emergency
The “naming map” of Germany can be divided into three sections
1. The Roman conquered territories call us "GERMANES"
2.The Slavic countries call us the "non-understanders" like the Poles for example (Niemcy)
3. Which were "conquered" by German tribes, the ALLEMANNEN
During the migration they had almost completely migrated around the Mediterranean, and in Swabia and parts of Switzerland people still speak today with the "Alemannic dialect" and the Finns often had "visits" from Saxony ;)....probably during the Hanseatic period in the 12th century
the yellow spot in Russia ?! There lives a minority of "Volga Germans" who were invited by Catherine the Great during Tsarist times
12:00 my first thought was "Yeah, that's a really long time!", then I realized you actually meant the opposite.😂
What many people forget is that when they call 116 or 117 they should not call because of a cold or an ingrown toenail. If the caller was turned down as you read out, then it wasn't an emergency and they should get their ass to the GP.
It's not 116 or 117 - it's 116117.
116117 is not an emergency hotline.... that's 112.... 116117 is for publicly insured people to get doctors appointments.... if you call them for an emergency they will just forward you to 112
My attempt to explain the "negative signs" on price tags: this dash ("-") usually represents one or more zeroes of the price. Furthermore, in Germany we use the comma as decimal separator, and not the "." as in many other countries, so that -,49 € is 0.49 € , and 10,- € is exactly 10.00 €.
-.42 is the discounter version of .42
They "strikethrough" the Euro amount and leave the cents. It’s quite obvious if you’re used to it - But now thinking about it, I‘ve never seen it be used elsewhere besides super markets
In Germany you see often price tags where the zero before or after the point was replaced by a dash. Afaik it is however only correct after the point (replacing e.g. 1.00 with 1.-).
The ambulance invoice is rather low, because it covers only the co-payment. A regular, non-emergency ambulance transport (e.g. if you have to go to a surgery, but can't drive yourself or use a cab) has in general to be approved by the insurance beforehand, otherwise you'll get an invoice of around 100 - 200 Euro (depending on region and distance). The 0.00 is however not the total, but the reminder charge (because it seems to be the first reminder, which is in most cases without charge).
The name "Germany" goes back to the Romans. There was never a tribe calling themselves "Germani", but many small tribes as well as a few confederacies of tribes calling themselves "Franks" (the Free), "Alemanni" (all together) and "Saxons" (after the sax, a short sword) all speaking languages closely related to each other. Those groups founded their own kingdoms after Rome was on the decline (as well as the Marcomanni (= border settlers, a subgroup of the Suebi, which also absorbed some other tribes) and the Thuringians); all those kingdoms were then defeated and conquered by the Franks and became duchies with the Frankish Empire. To the Franks in West Francia the region of East Francia became Allemagne (after the Alemanni). The Finns and Estonian knew only the people from the Duchy of Saxony. Since the Slavic people did at first not understand the German tongue and vice versa, they called them "mutes" - niemcy (or a variation of it) in their languages.
The Germans called themselves Saxons, Franks, Thuringians, Alemanni, Suebi (some Suebi tribes were members of the Alemanni, others migrated to Iberia and founded a kingdom in Galicia and northern Portugal) and Bavarians (presumably defeated Marcomanni taking over the name of the Celtic Boii and absorbing Romanized Celts as well as Roman-Syrian settlers and mercenaries south of river Danube). "Deutsch" was their language ("thiudisk", meaning the language of the people, in contrast to Latin, the language of scholars, priests and lords), an after a Saxon dynasty was elected for king in East Francia, they started to call the king of East Francia "König der Deutschen", king of Germans, and his realm "Deutsches Königreich" (German kingdom).
(Nobody seems to be sure, what the origins of the Roman word "Germani" are. In Latin it means sth. like "brother from the same father", and it was also the name of an obscure tribe in the eastern part of Spain in the 4th century BC. Some historians assume a Celtic (Gaul) origin like Old Irish 'gair' (neighbor) or 'gairm' (war cry).
In English the Germans were originally known either as Dutch or a Saxons, Alemannics and so on. But after the Netherlands became independent, "Dutch" became reserved to them.
Birthrates in Germany are still higher than in Italy or Spain...
I even got sued in District court by the local gas company, I was able to clear it up, but still was supposed to pay the 58€ fees of the dispute, but when I got the receipt, it showed that the 58€ were already covered and I had to pay nothing.
10:18 the russian pronunciation of the "G" in "Germanija" is like in "Greece". And the "ij" is like the "y" in "yes".
I don't know about the rest of the EU countries but I'm willing to bet a similar service is available. Here in France, if you are unable to physically go to the hospital, you can request a in-home visit from a mobile doctor also. This also applies to daily nurse care to help change bandages, administer medicine, etc. Americans have be brainwashed into believing they don't deserve such care without paying through the nose.
-,42 is basically just to make sure that you know that the amount listed is in Cents and not in Euros
It could also be written as 0,42€ but for historical reasons it's not
Yeah Germany and noise complaints 😂 a few days ago I had to hurry and ran through my apartment and a few minutes later I got a message that I was walking to loud!
I learned about 116117 a year ago while on vacation in Bavaria, the handle from a pot full of boiling water broke and I spilled it all over my thigh!
Here in Austria 🇦🇹 we got something called "Hausärztlicher Notdienst" who either give you a recipe for the meds you need or come by and check you up. Number in Upperaustria is 141.
It is covered by the basic insurance.
As in many other European states, the basic medical insurance is not dependent on your workplace. So you are not delivered to the grace of a corporation. Being helped as a sick person is a basic human right after all.
What you called Finland, is Sweden
116-117 is the hotline for the general practitioner emergency service in Germany. You must say to the call enter agent your address. You then tell the call center agent your symptoms, for example severe earache, and they will give you the address and telephone number of the ear, nose and throat doctor in your area. If you can't move because of back pain, a doctor will come to your home. In addition to the GP, ophthalmologists and ENT doctors are on emergency duty at weekends and on public holidays. The GP's emergency practice is always located in the Catholic hospital where I live. The specialists prefer to provide emergency service in their own practices.
Last week was really interesting! Learned a lot about my own country, thank you xD
In Italian the country is called Germania but the Germans are called Tedeschi (pronounced Tedeski) which is the latin derivation of the word Teutonic.
To see a american, looking a Eu map, where every country is labeld with their name for germany, and named every country correct, is something Iám glad to see nowadays....^^
13:40
I also have seen a little sign in Münster on a door saying:
"Tür leise schließen, sonst knallts!"
Although it *literally* just means: "Close the door, or it'll make a loud noise", you can interpretate "sonst knallts" as in a threat to either aggressively slamming the door close (Which is probably the intended joke there), or basically saying: " - or I'll beat you up." or something..
Interpretate it like you want, the joke behind it is quite funny either way.
The polish word for Germans means basically “the foreigners”
Can See why the Japanese declared Poland a *honorary Samurai Nation.......
The Japanese Word Gaijin means *Foreigner/Not Japanese Person
..................You Two Guys still ain't so diffrent after all^^.
You now have Article 5 of NATO....
Japan has:If Russia attack the Kruill Island We shall Tenno Heika Banzai the Warcrimes over the entire Country of Russia.
Greetings from Vienna.
No,I'm not a Rejected Artstudent......
I'm sorry for my bad English.
Have a nice Day
In Germany we pay contributions for Sozialversicherungen. These are deducted from our salary every month. We have 5 insurances. Health insurance, unemployment insurance, nursing care insurance, accident insurance, pension insurance. That's why a visit to the doctor is "free".
the "-,xx" is used instead of "0,xx" to make fraud harder. With "0,xx" you can add any number in front and rase the price. that is impossible with the "-" in front. It's not that of a problem today but was in the past. That is the reason you see on very old price tags a marking in front of the price (" '12,99 DM "). All to make it harder to temper with the price.
Today only the "-,xx" survived because people expected to see it.
5:28 the "negative sign" in that case is simply to show that what ever is before the decimal is omitted.
Same with the pfand, it says that there is 25 cents deposit on it. + 0,25€, again with the zero omitted turns it into + -,25.
Some also write values that way without post-decimal numbers, so 12,- instead of 12,00 but that is more common in handwritten numbers.
google translate didn't really help with that either. There is no unit and the sign uses a decimal point when a decimal comma is how things are written here.
In Austria the number is 141 for the "Ärztefunkdienst" (radio doctor's service would be a literal translation) which will advise you via phone or send a doctor to you, instead of an ambulance (which is 144 and reserved for emergencies) day and night.
Last one: they could ask the landlord to have the closing mechanism adjusted to lower force, problem solved.
With regard to the „prescription by phone“, I think that is a rather new thing that only became possible with the introduction of „e-recipes“ on January 1st. Since then the MD can simply add the prescription in your health insurance data, accessible for a pharmacy on presenting and scanning your health insurance chip card, so you or someone else can pick up the prescription medication there. (Before the introduction of the e-recipe it was always legally required to get a signed prescription form from the doctor, on paper.)
Let me explain some names for the country of Germany:
The French "Allemagne" comes from one of the German tribes. The "Alemannen". They were located in the southwest of Germany next to where France is today. So I guess the yellow ones were inspired by the French name.
"Germany" or "Germani" in Latin is the name for the tribes at the northern border of the Roman empire given by the Romans. Julius Ceaser made it popular by using it in "De bello Gallico".
"Deutschland" comes from old German "diutisc" which means "belonging to the people". I think it was originally used to describe the people who weren't able to speak Latin, which was the language of the ruling monarchs and clerics in the Holy Roman Empire (the German empire in medieval times). Also Tyskland is not pronounced with the English 'Y' sound. It's more like 'Tiskland'.
The Slavic name apparently means something like stranger or mute. So I guess communication between Slavic and German tribes must've been very difficult.
The Finnish one is the name for the German tribe of the Saxons.
I have no idea what the Baltics were thinking and apparently no one has.
But why do Finns and Estonians call Germans Saxonians?
BTW: "němec" is inherited from "němý" which literally means "mute".
8:45 I am on the list, being a German living in Austria (and so is also my son, Medical student in Austria, but with German citizenship, or my daughter living in Canada working in Film Production.)
Welcome to the civilized world:
If I want to talk to my doctor, I call between 8 and 9.
If I want an appointment I call after 9, or do it on the net.
If I want to renew my perscriptions, I do it on the net, or call the secretary. (She sends them to ALL the chemists in the country twice a day.)
Video consultations is an option. But they STILL do home call.
Like if you can't move, or eg. children and old folks can be tricky to transport.
The cost? I don't know. I pay my taxes and the medicin cost will NOT break my budget.
There are many 116 numbers btw, for example 116123 is sucide prevention, 116111 is the teenager helpline etc.
There is also the parenting number and even a "helpline ukraine" which afaik sadly only operates 3 hours a day.
Health insurance in Germany technicaly isn't free. You don't need to pay a bill from the doctor by yourself, because your insurance does this. But you have to pay your insurance company monthly and it is usually 14-15% of your monthly salary.
I called 116117 twice during the first year after my daughter was born. Both tunes she was ill during the weekends and both time also after 8 pm. We were unsure if her symptoms were bad enough to warrant going to the hospital. The doctors at 116117 ask very precisely about her symptoms and if she had other specific symptoms they would be worried about. In the end both times we got a list of symptoms for which to look out for, which would warrant a trip to the ER or a second call to them so that they could sent a doctor. All in all good experiences, though I agree that they are understaffed as we had to call multiple times to get the call picked up.
Billiger = cheaper ! The ice tea was ONE cent cheaper !!! 😁 Or " Much a do about nothing !"
I am German and absolutely did not know about 116 or 117. That's very good to know. Especially if you feel like you can't leave the house but the ambulance would be too much because its not that dire.
Kleines Missverständnis, nicht 116 oder 117 sondern 116117 als eine Nummer.
@@pedrobotero8542 Ah. Danke für die Info :)
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@7:22 the bottom 0.00€ is the payment reminder. So if you dont pay your 10€ fee for ambulence you need to pay a reminder fee that increases if you dont pay.
WE are used to Put a dash in Front or behind te comma in Case there ist No value for. Example 1,00 =1,- or 0,50 = -,50
And to add to all those comments for the "-.42" for the Icetea, it is correct: They reduced the price for astounding 1 cent 🤣
I once had a sale in a Lidl where a product got cheaper by 0 cents. Exact same price and yet it was still a discount.
Big misconception: There is no *free* health care in Germany. But there is public health care and private health care. In private health care you pay less when you are young and healthy and more when you are getting older and less healthy. In public health care you pay less when you earn less and more when you are earn more. But In both cases, you have to pay.
Anyway, most of the treatment is (usually) included, so you don't have to pay extra money for being treated.
I do not understand why Americans think that health care is free in Germany.
That is a right-wing interpretation. The money you pay you never see. It is a mandatory deduction from your gross pay. So it is essentially free. You pay essentially nothing but that with no to little co-pays for pretty much anything.
The private system is very different. And it should be abolished anyhow.
The price isn’t just written like that for 0,42€ being -,42€ but also for like 2,00€ being 2,-€
The iced tea had the old price of -,42 € == 0,42 €. Therefore the price is crossed out. The translator used distorts the meaning. The indication for a negative price would be - 0,42 €. Note that a dot separates the thousands and the comma separates the decimal places 1.000.007,42
In the US, if the problem is back pain, you'd probably take an Uber/taxi. If you don't need the specialized medical service, the ambulance is overkill.
I did have to take an ambulance last year when I suffered a badly broken arm. I was never billed (I have insurance).
there are hydraulic arms which are supposed to close the street doors - smoothly and calm. Highlight is 'supposed'.
Due to temp difference sommer / winter and the viscosity of the hydraulic fluid used the 'spring power' needs a seasonal adjustment, ca. around early April and Mid November. Else the hydraulic lever will slam the door regularly. If the spring power isn't readjusted when winter starts the door might not be fully closed. Handwriting appears female to me. So presumably it's an old Lady living in an apartment somewhere near that door. She better should call the landlord and demand it to be fixed.
I was surprised to learn that you guys do not even know the 'Notarzt' (emergency doc) system we have. Free ambulance ride, ok, that idea already made it across the pond, I see. A 'doc on duty' service didn't, yet. I think those rich guys in America zone you out from essential basics every human being should have in an advanced society. That's a no brainer, that anyone would want that.
Maybe you wanna ask Laura Kampf for a collaboration. She’s a presenter on the Maus show, but holds her maker channel in English. She recently moved to LA, since she married.
I hope, I summed it up somewhat okay.
Sometimes we write price tags like " 25,- " and that means EUR 25 and the other way around " ,-42 " it means EUR 0.42 ... it's a little bit old fashioned nowadays tho but Lidl sticks to that
6:00 If you look a little analytical at this you will notice "+ -.25" at the top. Now what does that tell you? Obviously it has a "+" sign and a "-." signs before the number.
1. Seems to be a plus as in "additional".
2. The "-" and "." and number seems to be what is to be added.
3. "." looks like the decimal separator, doesn't it?
So with the "plus" (+) in front everything following denotes the amount. So in front of "." are the whole Euros and behind the "." are the decimals (1/100 = cents) in Euro.
So it follows that "-" is used for "00" (zero) Euros and the "25" is for 25 cents.
Now go down and figure what -.41 means.
Was that so complicated?
The "-" sign isn't meant to be a "negative" sign in this context but it's used instead of a "0". It's somewhat common practice to display prices below 1 € as something like "-.41" rather than "0.41". (You can also do it the other way around if you have an amount of exactly 1 € or any other whole number and write it as "1.-" instead of "1.00".) I don't know if there is any good reason reason for doing it that way, but maybe it makes people "feel" like it's even cheaper if there are only two digits instead of three or it makes it more obvious at a first glance that it's less than one Euro.
116117 is in germany a service number for getting appointment to specialised docs normally. due a lack of for example cardiologist this service helps to gets appointments faster than 3months...
in emergencys like this normally you call 112 wich is equal to 911 in US. Exeption is only the price you wont pay for it in a emergency.
the -.xx€ just means 0,xx€
at third example the person had to pay 10€ for the transport. the 0,00 are "Mahnkosten" = reminder cost. So its first letter for this bill. If you miss to pay next time its gonna raise to 5,00 reminder cot normally
everyone explains how -,41€ = 0,41€
but noone tells him that a ´´disposable´´ bottle shouldnt have a ´´deposit´´ !
its like this american watercompany selling their water with the promise to replant the forests-
while selling their water in disposable plastic bottles .
after i saw it i took out my textmarker and underlined the word ´´disposeable´´
2 days later i saw the convinience store packing the bottles up and sending them back to the seller xD
It's a common misconception that healthcare is free in Germany. To shed some light on this: Every employee with statutory health insurance must pay a monthly contribution rate of 14.6% of the employer's gross salary as a monthly health insurance contribution. The employer and employee share this contribution equally, so that 7.3% of the gross salary is ultimately deducted from your monthly pay slip. Health insurance funds may also levy an additional contribution, which is only paid by the employee. In 2024, this will be between 0.6% and 2.2%, depending on the statutory health insurance fund chosen.
There is also a contribution assessment ceiling of 69,300 euros per year. This means that no more health insurance contributions are due on every additional euro you earn. If you earn more than this amount, you can also opt for private health insurance. People who earn less money are not eligible and cannot take out private health insurance. However, there are private supplementary insurance policies for people with compulsory statutory health insurance if you want to cover services that are not covered by public health insurance (e.g. dental implants).
The night train from Amsterdam to Vienna (ÖBB nightjet NJ40421) has a journey time of 13:49 hours. Tickets are available from 29.90 EUR.
But then it wouold not be a road trip.
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@@steemlenn8797 Or he could just stay in Amsterdam and have a trip without a road or a train. Much cheaper.
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That thing about the noisy car doors is very common on the countryside and with the elderly. Heard it many times from anyone in our village and around, but never when I used to live in the city
Yeah, strange. It's almost only the ones with bad hearing who complain, maybe because it's the only thing they still hear?
In my old house the person complaining was the one who always left her appartment door open a little bit. I didn't feel compelled much to waste my time guiding the automatically slowly closing door.
I'm not an elderly person, but (living in a village) often wonder how many car doors you can actually close on a car, at least every car in the neighbourhood seems to have at the very least 10.🙃 I guess in the city you hear a lot more noise, right now while typing this, all I currently hear is birdsong from outside. In winter it can be absolutely quiet. Or as the main character from "Mord mit Aussicht" puts it after moving to the countryside: "here you can listen to your tinnitus undisturbed".
12:24 AHHH that Train is from my Hometown Essen. Die guten alten Stadtbahnwagen Typ B (B80C/S) 😂
War das "AHHH" ein kleiner Traingasm ?
@@speku87🤫 vielleicht 🤷♂️
116117 is a very valuable and convenient service, but because it's decidedly not for urgent emergencies, sometimes the waiting time is two hours until somebody shows up. Which won't kill you if you've only thrown out your back, but you'll spend another two hours in agony.
Don't listen to those trolls bitching about healthcare. Our system is EXCELLENT. Objectively. When in need you get quick appointments, quick treatment, quick surgery, toü notch tech, sometimes much better than in the US. Those people bitching are delusional and just frustrated and angry with life in general.
I called 116117 during the pandemic.
The Kindergarten insisted on a Covid PCR test before allowing the child back to Kindergarten.
The peadiatrician insisted it was not needed and just a wast of time and money.
116117 just remarked that this was an interesting problem and good luck with it!
You don’t pay for the service of 116117 or the doctor visiting you. But you may have to pay a small amount for prescriptions (like 5-10€ per medication prescribed).
116117 ist a hotline that usually is free. Its about all services. If you got a heartattack or something you better call the 112 and Emergency Docter and Ambulance are coming as fast as a rocket, but the 112 has sometimes overload.. Its the same number for firefighting, but firefighting always workis, because we firefighters are millions.
13:43 story of me and my neighbours. The amount of noise they make drives me nuts.
I think 116117 is a relatively new 'service' (honestly, I often forget they are an option, myself and this video just reminded me of them again), which was implemented to help with finding a doctor (GPs and specialists) relatively quickly, as this can be pretty tricky these days. I think there are even rules that say how much time it's ok for them to take to be able to pointing you to the doctor you need. I suspect you need to be kind of 'lucky' after calling them, I was actually a little surprised they were actually sending doctors there and then (which is of course amazing!). Though, they are also the number you can call when you need help asap (and maybe don't have the option to see your GP the next day, or feel like you can't wait that long), but don't feel the need to go to the ER or call an ambulance. Because it's also a problem that some people go straight to the ER (or call an ambulance) when there isn't an actual emergency.
Yeah, medical services are essentially 'free' when you have insurance, which is obligatory here in Germany. For some things you still might have to pay, but nowhere near the ridiculous amounts you need to pay in the US (under certain circumstances dentists may be some kind of exception there, though).
Oh, and apart from the hotline and the ER, there's also always a doctor on duty in some kind of 'emergency office', I think often close to the/a hospital (at least in my city they are).
Hela Delikat Curry Ketchup is amazing. Seriously. But it's pricey. (like Heinz)
If you are interested in the different names of Germany, one of my first videos is about that topic, using the same map.
You have to have health insurance in Germany. This is not free it costs around 15% of your salary of which your employer pays half and you the other half. There is also private insurance but as you get older it ends up costing more and once you get it, you cannot easily go back into the state insurance system, I never have an issue getting a doctor or an ambulance. You are charged 10 Euros per night if you stay in hospital for the food. You also have to pay for some X rays and of course your medicines.
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5:50 that "-.42" means 42 cents, the minus is just a placeholder for a 0. you often see it if something is 25€ and they write "25,--" to tell you it´s exactly 25€
7:10 that last line is the extra charge if you don´t pay the 10€ on time. total cost in this case is 10€
11:30 ketchup and curry ketchup are 2 very different things, it´s like you compare a tomato sauce and ketchup. i personally don´t really like normal ketchup either, but curry ketchup is a whole different thing
Germany in other languages:
Center and Scandinavia: D*ts*land...Tyskland - land of people talking distinctly. Also a name for central Europe (Germany as a country is very young).
East: N*em*: Land of mute people.
Southeast and Southwest: Alemania - land of the Alleman, meaning all men, the name of a Southwestern Germanic tribe.
South, further East, and British Isles: German* - land of the Germans, a catchall for Germanic tribes, and a name for central Europe (Germany as a country is very young).
Finland & Estland: Saksa - land of the Saxons, a North Germanic tribe.
The 10€ ambulance cost probably is a "medical taxi/cab" with next to no medical care. My knowledge from when I did EMS in 2010: A normal ambulance starts around 120+€ (reduced for very short trips) plus additional cost per distance. Emergency ambulance is 650+€ and an on ride doctor adds another 300€ flat.
Your insurance still covers all of that, but it is not as cheap as 10€. EMS has to pay wages, vehicles, the station, training and material. Well, material is billed on top of transportation, but only the real prices and not the mede up US hospital prices. But they can't work at a loss.
Umm.. no.
The 10 Euros include everything that needs to be done to get you to the hospital alive. It might be a cab ride but it also might be a flight to a trauma center 100 km away in a helicopter equipped like an ER. Obviously, that doesn't come even close to covering the actual cost, it's just a bit of money to remind people, "Hey! This costs money!".
@@realulli but that’s not what the service bills. With public health insurance you don’t see the full invoice.
Just think about it. Someone has to pay the ride. Just because you don’t get to pay it doesn’t mean no one has to. Even non profit emergency services can’t operate at a loss.
@@ThePlumbeus That's what I was trying to say. The public health insurance picks up the cost and just bills you 10.- to remind you it does cost money. (I suspect there's a more elaborate explanation, but that's what it boils down to.)