And if you take the rules for creating german compound words in mind than you know that "car to transport sick people" is simplified to "car for the sick (people)" and this is compound to sick(people)car. Like other examples: Kilometers per Hour -> Hourskilometer (Stundenkilometer) etc.
@@neevabee_ Basically a slavic word rather for cream. In old germanic (including Angles and Saxons!) popular belief butterflies were shape-shifting witches whose intent was to sour the milk in cows udders. So since the 'Schmetterling' is a loanword, the rather typical german noun for that kind of insects would be 'Falter', like in 'Nachtfalter' (in English simply moth) or 'Zitronenfalter' (common brimstone).
Schmetterling die Bezeichnung des Falters ist seit dem 16. Jh. gebräuchlich und leitet sich von dem mitteldeutschen Wort Schmetten „Rahm“ ab, das seinerseits auf čech. smetana „Milch“ zurückgeht; die Benennung stützt sich auf den alten Volksglauben, nach dem Schmetterlinge verwandelte Hexen seien, die Milch und Sahne stahlen; regional wird der Schmetterling auch als Buttervogel bezeichnet, vgl. dazu engl. butterfly
@@Samcaracha In der Regel wird bei der Verniedlichung mit „chen“ das a zum ä: Tomate - Tomätchen, Mann - Männchen, Garten - Gärtchen, das u zu ü: Stuhl - Stühlchen, Mund - Stühlchen, Minute- Minütchen das o zum ö: Sohn - Söhnchen, Thron - Thröhnchen, usw.
And in the south of Germany: "-le". And -chen, -lein und -le makes every word neutral: der Stern -> das Sternchen. Interesting is also the difference between "Fräulein" und "Frauchen" or "Fräuchen". The first is a virgin, the second is a "Kosewort" for "Frau".
@@rolandscherer1574 - Die Endung -le ist hauptsächlich im Schwäbischen (Schwaben und Baden-Würtemberg) üblich z.B. Spätzle, Häusle, Mäusle.... In Franken gibts auch noch die Endung -la: Drei Werschdla im Weggla!
@@rolandscherer1574 Fräulein does not mean virgin. It is an oudated form to adress an unmarried women. Being unmarried and being a virgin is not the same. ^^ Yes, Frauchen can be a term of affection but is more used as mistress for a dog or cat. So when the cat acts like she is dying by starvation, the fewmale cat owner can say: "Frauchen bringt Dir gleich was."
In English, you don‘t even need a word. You just emphasize „did“ and you get the samemeaning like with German „doch“. Why do so many Germans think! „doch“ is so unique? I think they don‘t know English well enough.
Though "Na?" highly depends on the context. E.g. if I ask someone who just had an important meeting "Na?" I am asking them how the meeting went. It is more of a general encouragement for the other to talk about the most recent major event that you know about or, like you mentioned, a general asking about the state of affairs and for a personal evaluation of them.
What a flashback. 20years ago I had a friend from overseas and I taught her some german, or to be more precise, I told her all those funny words and word constructions. And I used pretty much the same list of words like you did in this video. Even explained her the rules about "-chen" and so on.
It is really refreshing to hear one's own mother tongue explained by someone who is learning it because often enough we don't think about those things and take it for granted. Your ö-sound actually sounds quite good.
The great thing about German is that you can combine (almost) unlimited amounts of nouns to one: Donauschifffahrtskapitänskajütenschlüssel It‘s a bit of a stretch, but it is basically correct. (And it means „key for the cabin of the captain of a ship navigating on the (river) Donau“)
The "Ö"-pronunciation shouldn't be a great deal to a native English speaker. The German "ö" is just pronounced like the second "e" in "emergency", the "u" in "urgent" or the "i" in "James T. Kirk". 🙂
Clemens, this only really works for non-rhotic English speakers who don’t pronounce the “r” in the words you cite. For rhotic speakers (most Americans, Canadians and many northern English dialects) who pronounce the interior “r’s,” it’s just confusing. And it leads to language students inserting a spurious “r” into ö words in German.
Clemens Kindermann it’s an approach that works for a limited subset of English speakers. But for a large number, it creates a problem - people putting a spurious “r” into German words because that’s what they think they were taught. When I (a fully rhotic English speaker) was taught how to say “ö” the teacher drilled us on the vowel sound until we nailed it. No “er’s.”
Hey Neeva, so here is your next subscriber. It was just heartwarming listening to you, as a german it always makes me smile when people from the United States or Great Britain speak german...and hey, you're doing REALLY good! So, as the second name in your profile says "bee" (german "Biene"), and you're such an adorable young woman, I can't help to call you "Bienchen"...and that's meant completely positive and respectful. What would you think about a "react to -" video, perhaps watching a german comedy show or something like that? Just an idea...have a great evening, stay safe, and most important: Stay as you are! Bye..
Es ist schön, dass mal jemand sagt "deutsch ist gar nicht so schwer" 👍 Die kleine Tomate ist gar nicht so falsch: ein Tomätchen Die Eselsbrücke: -chen und -lein machen alles klein 😉 Es gibt tatsächlich auch ein altes deutsches Wort für Butter: Schmette - und weil die Schmetterlinge so gern die Molke, die beim Buttern entsteht, trinken... tadaaa: sein Name ist Schmetterling 🦋
Exactly. "Sprache lebt" as they like to say in Germany, so if it works for you go for it. Try greeting your favorite persons with "Na'chen..." - see what happens :]
"Zwei Gespensterchen saßen auf einem Klappfensterchen und machten Puffärmelchen." Originally this is a fun sentence which has to pronounced wrongly by stressing on the E*chen so on the syllable befor the diminutive suffix. Then no native speaker will understand it except those knowing this. The fun is that this wrong stressing does not sound as wrong as it is. With non compound words a native speaker will probably get that it is stressed at the wrong syllable, because it violates the rules of the language. With compound words, the native speaker's ear is forced to split the compound at wrong boundaries which results in unknown words. (E. g. what is a "Gespen" or "Gespin"? And what is a "Ster(chen)" or "Steer(chen)"?)
Robin Williams once mentioned the untranslatable "Schadenfreude" in one of his stand up routines. The Dutch have been using "Uberhaupt" as a fashionable throw-inbetween -word for more than 30 years. My favorite: "Wir Schaffen das."I wish you best of both worlds from surreal Belgium.
Hahahaha... Soo great! I am german and absolutely love this video. The collection of words is funny and surprising like comedy for me... But i can feel you really love german language. Super!
You hear the Ö-sound in bird. Keks actually derived from cakes. A little tomato is actually a Tomätchen. And you can add -chen to any noun, but sometimes you have to change the noun a bit.
Hi Neeva. I have another one for you: "Lösung" which means "solution". The interesting thing about this german/english word is that Americans and Germans use it the same way. "Solution" in the sense of "the solution of a problem" or a "chemical solution". As much as you use "solution" in your mother language, "Lösung" means the very same things in german language. Well I don't think that this is coincidence and can be tracked down to the common roots of our languages, but i find it interesting, that this one has survived the ages.
My favorit german word is "Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung" No one, German or not, should be forced to use that word 😂😂
Ha, ich wusste, sowas werde ich in den Kommentaren finden. Ich möchte noch hinzufügen: - Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänswitwe und - Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Hi i struggle all the Time in the same way in englisch, sometimes it's difficult, but your pronunciation sounds cute. But you are not shy,thats great. Many Regards from Germany Tilo
I just stumbled across your channel and really enjoyed your content so far - keep up the great work! ^_^ I'm not sure how much free time you got on your hands for editing your videos but it might be a good idea to ... shit, what's the English word for 'einblenden'? ... well ... to put the words (or individual points when you list stuff) on the screen for a couple of seconds - makes it a bit easier to follow and understand, looks nice and makes your list videos list-ier?! ... :D Anyways, it's already way too late. I should be off to bed ... x3
Hello, The word “ausflippen” has a different history than to flip out. In former times pinball machines were very common in Germany. And they named in pseudo-english as “Flipper”.Hence when the ball runs into the off, the term was “ausflippen” The other word in German which refers to pinball is “Tillen”. It means somewone gets furious in a bad way. It’s roots when the “Flipper” not any linger works because of hitting and joilting the machine it goes to “Tilt”State
Hi Neeva, it is a very nice vid! just for help: the Ö - sounbd can be spoken as the o in the English "word" or "world" or "burn". it is quite similar to that all. greets from Jena Mathias
Your last few words you said are the most interesting ones for me. You said "german is a quite simple language" ... which ich true. But you're also right by saying the gramma is difficult. I love the way you speek german. :)
You need to explain the meaning of "Flugzeuge im Bauch" or "planes in the stomache" ... will be an interesting story to tell or sing ... A feeling everyone knows in 3 words and a tune that matches the words and vice versa
"Arzt" is the German word for "doctor". However, this word also pertains to a dentist: "Zahnarzt" = "tooth doctor". The English word "dentist" is derived from the Latin "dens" (tooth) and subsequently the French word "dent" and "dentiste". The German word for "ophthalmologist" is "Augenarzt" = "eye doctor". Sounds more simple and literal.
@Neeva Bee ... Thank you for giving me a special sight to my country. You make me laugh all the time you bring up a video. But to explain you can really end nearly every word with a 'chen, but in the case of Tomate it is an Tomätchen... and if you can't add a 'chen we have another ending it's 'lein. For example Herz.... it's Herzchen, okay so far, but it is also Herzlein, Blume... Blümchen or Blümelein, when they are tiny. German is really easy playing with words and combining them. That's why it is so complicated for us to learn other vocabularies, they don'combine words, which is naturally to us. Another thing is the different colours of craftsmen, this is an european history thing. In former times only when you where member of a certain group of workers (called Gilde) you where allowed to wear their colours. And only they where allowed to wear these colours, as a hunter you had to wear a special green to show, that you officially where allowed to hunt, nobody else was allowed this colour. And so every guild has its own colour, leatherworkers, barbers, woodworkers, smithes and so on. And as an respect to history, or to stick in the past many of the craftsmen in germany and all over the rest of germany still wear the colour or template of their profession... It is a sign that you have to earn and can be proud of if you're allowed to wear it. Sure times have changed and now you can wear whatever you want, but it still is a rest of history sticking to present times. Difficult for me to explain, becaus it's years and years I had to use my english.
The cutifying endings depend on the region though. In some areas you say -chen in others -sche, -lein, -li, -le (with -chen and -lein being the predominant forms in Germany and -li in Switzerland)
The "deminutive" varies wildly, regionally - sometimes "-ke" in the western parts of Low German - which is very close to the "ka" of most Slavic languages ("Ivanka," "babushka ").
You forgot the greatest German word of them all: Doch! It's used to object to a statement or question including a negation, like one including a "not". If you ask or say something in German that contains a negation, you agree with nein and object with doch. In English you always agree with yes and object with no (if I'm not mistaken) which is pretty confusing and hard to keep in mind for Germans. Ask a German "Don't you agree?" and if he says no, you cannot be sure what he means. Hell, even now when thinking about it intensely, I don't know what yes or no would mean in English :)
"Na?" is a bit more complicated, as some have already written. I come from Northern Germany and have to do with Bavarians. If a customer says he has a problem, I often answer with "Na?". I mean "Erzählen Sie mal!" and he/she understands "Nein". I also deal with people in Saxony-Anhalt and there "Na!" stands for yes.
As a former student in Germany, I have come to know that i speak some words even some Germans wouldn't know about it , like some technical words. Anyhow what I can say is that the German language is fun.My favorite term: Ich trinke nicht mehr....Aber auch nicht weniger. or Immer? nicht immer aber immer ofter ...as they used to say it in beer advert.Oh Ich vermesse Deutschalnd sehr...habe auch angefangen die spache zu vergessen.
Plattdeutsch the northern german dialect has sometimes similar words as english. The butterfly would be Butter-fliege in German. But it is the Schmetterling in Hochdeutsch But in Plattdeutsch it is the Bodderlecker meaning butter-licker which is more simillar to butterfly…
You can totally say "Tomätchen"... with fruits and veggies we often use -chen as "it's too tiny / it is too small" but in regard to vegetables rather in a negative way because you can usually get more for your money. But you can also use it as an expression for your surprise of how small a thing is. Gürkchen, Birnchen, Banänchen, Äpfelchen, Karöttchen etc. - So we would say "This rather a Tomätchen than a tomato".
Milchkaffee3000 My home dialect is Franconian spoken in the north east of Bavaria. Here we use the suffix -la to make things tiny and cute, actually for everything you feel is close and dear to you ... persons and things. The Standard German equivalent is -lein which means pretty much the same as -chen mentioned in the video. Often it is used to make things that may be offensive seem harmless. The keyboarder in my band lived in a tiny village among very conservative neighbours. We used to meet there and jam. His mother told neighbours; „Di buhm hamm a bänd-la‘ (The boys have a tiny cute little band.) That way they could accept our music ... or endure it for some hours. ;-)
4:54 - In fact it should! ... well, sort of 😉 The "o" in "work" or the first "e" in "perfect" for instance are pronounced exactly like the "ö" in German ... you're just not used to using it in any other combination of letters! 😄 And: English has a clear counterpart to the "-chen" suffix and that is "-let", it's just not used quite as often (at least that's my impression). Example: (German) Schweinchen = (English) piglet.
Brot -> Brötchen A tiny cute bread, essentially. You can put "-chen" after almost every word. You just have to check for the vocal turning Umlaut. Magd -> Mädchen Baum -> Bäumchen Another way of doing this is to put "-lein" at the end. While "-chen" is more used on feminine words, "-lein" is rather masculine. Sohn -> Söhnlein Tisch -> Tischlein In Swiss German "-lein" turns to "-li" In German you can also use "-chen" or "-lein" in many cases. Bäumlein, Söhnchen, Tischchen... it's just less comon the other way around but people understand it. And it's always a little or a cuter version of something. Your example with Katze -> Kätzchen is all you need to know about this concept. Although the "-chen" is more cute than the "-lein" if that makes sense.
The english O in "Word" sound already (almost) like an Ö. Just use it. That should be good enough for the start. Dont overthink it. You also can try something else: Say a german O and hold it...now change very slowly into a german E without stoping. Midway is the Ö. Just change forward and backward... you will find it. Its a voice warmup for singers, but it could help you. Works also for Ä (A to E) and Ü (U to E or I)
I think in some english accents the o in world is pronounced the same way as ö, also the u in burn and there are other examples, but I guess it depends on the region/accent.
Your ‚ö‘ is very good, almost perfect. Here some other words/animals: Libelle -> Dragonfly Kröte -> Toad Schildkröte -> Turtle Strauss -> Ostrich Nilpferd -> Hippo Nashorn -> Rhino Stinktier -> Skunk
hey neeva do you know that the words "butterfly" and "schmetterling" have the same semantic backround? "butter" in the word butterfly realy comes from butter. the wings of the butterfly move up and down like the move you make while stamping the butter. so "stamping butter" in german is called "butter schmettern" (=schmetterling).
Hi Neeva, thanks, had a lot of fun :-) Re. "Na?": maybe you should add that "Na?" is rather informal (appropriate for friends, pupils, students, younger people) while "How are you?" is more appropriate when you met people you are not familiar with yet. Schmetterlinge = butterflies (Plural). Singular: Schmetterling. Btw, "Keks" comes from "cakes" indeed (just to make it even more complicated ;-) The terminus technicus for " ...chen" is "diminutive". You can find diminutives in many Slavian languages too.
Best German word especially for kids is "doch". With "doch" you can just contradict any negated expression like "Don't you like it?" Now you don't have to say "Yes, I do!", but just "Doch!!"
The funniest German words are from a dialect called "Beamtendeutsch", which is basically civil servent German. They discribe the words unequivocally: - Einachsiger Dreseitenkipper (Single-axle three-way tipper) = wheelbarrow/pushcart - Raumübergreifendes Großgrün (Cross-room large green) = tree - Personenvereinzelungsanlage (People isolation system) = turnstile - Falle Schnapp für Kleintier, grau, beweglich (Snap trap for small animals, gray, movable) = mousetrap - Lautraum (Sound space) = discotheque This is even hilarious to us Germans :o).
I would not say "Na" is mainly used as a question. Then we would say "Na, wie geht´s?" or "Na, was machst du heute?". Na is more of a form of "passive" greeting. You don´t really say hello but you just make sure you are there. In the eastern part "Na" is also used as "Yes". Then again, na can also be used as no. A very versatile word.
you can attach -chen or -lein (same meaning) too basically every german nomen to make it sound cuter. some crazy german aunts will also attach it to ur goddamn name. like nope, she doesn’t say “hi lilly”, she says “hallo lillychen” (on purpose, she knows i can’t stand it)...
Just as a tiny warning, "filler words" like Na (they are usually either at the beginning or the end of a sentence) are usually regional (that's true for most languages, not only German). Something you'd constantly hear in lets say Hamburg might cause very confused stares in Vienna.
To confuse you a bit: In most words you can use -chen or -lein to make them small and cute. But the small version of Herr (sir) is Herrchen and this can be a male or female owner of a pet/animal like a dog, while the word Herrlein doesn't exist. Sometimes also Frauchen (the small version of woman) is used for a female owner of a pet, while Fräulein is an old-fashioned word for an unmarried woman, which you don't use anymore. So sometimes the words get a new meaning in the small version or doesn't exist.
you're adorable! I would say it is very common in Germany to use " 'chen" to describe a much smaller or tiny version of something. Besides that the word "Mäuschen" is often used as a cute name for your partner.
Das Wort "Keks" stammt übrigens tatsächlich vom englischen "cake" ab. Es war, wenn ich nicht irre, Leibniz (ein Hersteller von Keksen), der das Wort "erfunden" hat. Das Problem mit dem englischen Wort war, dass er es so nicht auf seine Schachteln drucken konnte, weil damals Englisch nicht sehr verbreitet war und die Deutschen es auch Deutsch aussprechen würden, was dann ähnlich klingt wie... Du wirst es herausfinden. Also wählte er als Namen für sein Produkt einfach "cakes" - in Deutsch ausgesprochen, also "Keks".
for ö-sound say an o and pull your lower jaw back (into your head) ... if your relaxed enough your tounge will rise little still in the o-form ... I don't know if this helps 😅
What me confuses most regarding the english language is, that „everything“ that flies is a fly and everything that swims is a fish. Almost. Or at least some. Like butterfly, firefly, greenfly, harvest fly or shellfish, crayfish, jellyfish 😉
Your ö sounds nearly perfect! And you actually DO have that sound in English, too, e. g. in the word "word" the English o is pronounced just like the German ö. But it's the version with open vowel like in "Törtchen" ("-chen" form of "Torte" = "cake"), "hörte" ("heared") or "löschen" ("delete" or "eliminate") ö in "blöd" is the closed vowel version that's also found e. g. in the word "schön" ("nice" or "beautiful" or "handsome") - don't confuse the words "schon" ("already" or "very") and "schön"! You can learn that sentence: "Das ist schon schön." which means "That's really nice."
klay brig is good, sounds like sticky clay in the earth , that i can make pots with. other examples of good ones are russian смущать smooshchet = 'embarrasing sound of confused blushing' , smoosh chet, love dat one. schmooshshey wooshey...
Richtig nette Darstellung der kleinen Sprachprobleme für Amis die Deutsch lernen! Auch wenn ich nicht jedes Wort sofort verstanden habe (z.B. blöd..) finde ich das Video richtig nett und total süß!!! ;o))
It's Kekse but you say it like Kaykse. If a German native says I don't really here the strong similiarity to cake. Krankenwagen is not sick car I would rather translate to sick people car. Congrats to 1k subs. You will grow exponentally. Your channel really has potential.
6:04 "(...) as an American speaking English". I think you meant as an American speaking German. 🤭🤭🤭 Btw your vid is fantastic, I'm learning German and I totally liked your examples. To give you a hint you can produce the sound ö in German as the same "eu" combination in French represented in the IPA as /ø/, which is sort of a vowel in between /e/and /o/. You round your lips as though you were to say /o/, but you actually release a soft /e/ sound with the shape of an /o/ in your lips. I hope that makes sense and can help you pronounce the ö vowel sound better. Best regards Neeva.
You can really make everything small by adding -chen or -lein to the word. "Oh, ich habe an diesem Stäudchen gerade ein kleines Erdbeerlein gefunden" (Look, I just found a small strawberry on this little brush) is perfect German. But my favorite word is the Außenfeuchtigkeitsmesser. außen, outside, that can be guessed. Feuchtigkeit, you mentioned it, is humidity. But "Messer"? It's a knife, isn't it? But, in this word, "messer" comes from "measure" ("messen" in German), and it means an "outside air humidity measuring device". And, to make the mess complete, a Messe is a mass: Not a mass of people, but a religious assembly in a church. Now, you might ask, what is "mess" in German? A Durcheinander or chaos, that's what a mess is. And a "Messie" in German is an unorganized person. Have fun with more German words that are sometimes "false friends", or sometimes simply funny. I'd be happy if you made a video out of this small contribution.
The good thing about all words ending in the 'chen are neutral regardless of the gender. So it is "das Mädchen" (girl) and "das Hundchen" (little dog). You don't have to worry about the gender of the article like "die (feminine) Frau" or der (masculine) Hund. My favorite German word is "(das) Eichhörnchen" (squirrel) when translated literally is "little acorn dog" (Eichel - acorn , Hundchen - little dog) It is about as hard for an American to say in German as squirrel is for a German in English. Also for words ending in "d" in German have more of a "t" sound and "g" is more like a "k" sound in Engish.
Na, and how about Feierabend and (am Wochenende) ausschlafen?😂 Or spazieren gehen? It’s “more” than just walking, but less than hiking.😅 I speak 4 languages, that’s probably why I’m interested in such details.
We do use "-chen" constantly. And if "-chen" doesn't sound right, "-lein" will do the job. Besides the "na?" we also have a "ne?" which we use when we need confirmation...but has, of course, nothing to do with the equally popular "nee..." which means NO. My favourite German word is "jein"... Loved the video and how nicely you talked about the language. Subcribed... Also...perfect timing "I'm gonna talk about the Umlaut Ö." Cat: "I'm outta here..."
With "chen", the name "Grete" (short form of Margarete / Margret) comes to mind, which is often given in American as "Gretchen" (meaning: little Grete ** Margarete / Margret). The name is currently not very popular in Germany and here you would only use this diminutive in the family circle as long as the girl is still very young and not as a regular name.
The "chen" with the Tomato is correct in German "Tomätchen". The Ö you say is more like an Ü ,try to make your lips a little bit more"Round" when you say Ö. Greets from Germany.:)
Many words in the western hemisphere based of latin. For example Window= Fenster in german= fenstram in latin, or Toilet= in german= Toilette or Latrine, in latin latrina and many more. Romans/latin influence is still read- and hearable :-)
@@wora1111 Na ja, die ist wohl hauptsächlich auf die unterschiedlichen Dialekte und deren Vereinigung zu einer einheitlichen Sprache zurück zu führen. Und darauf, das der Syntax in der deutschen Sprache etwas komplizierter ist, als in anderen westlichen Sprachen, wie Du ja schon erwähnt hast :-)
@@kanor68 Hmm, bin nicht ganz überzeugt. Das "Mehr" an lateinischen Begriffen ist mir aufgefallen, als Hailey ihren Freund auf seine Englischkenntnisse getestet hat. Und ihre englischen Worte waren großteils aus dem Lateinischen übernommen. Oder denk an "incumbent", den Amtsinhaber. Und seid ich drauf schaue, sehe ich natürlich immer weitere (=selektive Wahrnehmung :-) )
"Keks" actually was derived from english "cake". In 1891, Hermann Bahlsen produced "Butter Cakes", but people had a hard time pronouncing it correctly, so the name officially changed to "Leibnitz-Keks". Eventually, in 1911 the word "Keks" made it into the Duden as a generic term for crunchy biscuits. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz-Keks)
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A: "Na?"
B: "Och."
A: "Sonst?"
B: "Muss."
...is a complete, German conversation.
😂👍
True
In meinem Kopf hört sich das sächsisch an. Kenne sonst kein Bundesland mit so kurzer Konversation. =)
Transcription: A: How‘s it going? B: Quite OK (Not so good) A: You gonna make it? B: Have to.
@@dennisjohn1696 das kommt eher auf die Menschen die sich unterhalten.
My favourite german word is " Freibier"
da dran dachte ich auch😂
Wenn schon, denn schon: ein Bierchen...
... für alle !😀😀😀
und Feierabend!
@@mbstlcns7847 also ein Freibierchen. Ich liebe Deutsch für diese Aneinanderreihungen.
As a native German speaker I find it very amazing which words you chose as favorites.
German word: "Tja"
a German reaction to apocalypse,
Dawn of the Gods,
nuclear war, Alien attack
or no bread in the house.
A little bit more complicated, but the same meaning: "Da kannste nix machen" xD
Or in bavarian dialect... " ja mei"
😉👍
@@clf2524 Or short: "Machste nix" :D
And when you are the reason for some of these catastrophies, just say "Hups" or "Uppsala".
"Hey, sick car!"
Ambulance driver: "Thanks?"
😂 Hahaha
And if you take the rules for creating german compound words in mind than you know that "car to transport sick people" is simplified to "car for the sick (people)" and this is compound to sick(people)car. Like other examples: Kilometers per Hour -> Hourskilometer (Stundenkilometer) etc.
Though the "-n" part of Kranke*n*wagen marks the genitive form, so it is "car of the sick"
@@boahkeinbockmehr As for "Krankenschwester" (Nurse): It's not "sick sister/nurse", but sister/nurse for the sick ones.
Yes, sick sister or sick car would translate to „kranke Schwester“ or „kranker Wagen“
In my opinion, the best German word is "doch". There is nothing like it in english.
Yet, however?
@@911fletcher Kind of, but I guess this doesnt work as a word for not approving to what somebody else said.
"Doch" can be a 1 word sentence.
It can mean replies/things/situations like "no, I really mean it" or "I trully do" or "I am right, no matter what you say."
Isn't it ?
Best sounding word is "Kuchen". It carries the essence of warmth, softness & sweetness.
You think? Interesting, never thought about it.
Küchelchen wäre eine nette Verkleinerung
@@moxxer22 Hör auf, sonst sehen wir uns noch irgendwann mit dem "sexy Küchelchen" konfrontiert...
Fun fact: "Schmetterling" is originally a loan word from Czech smetana, meaning "butter". Cf. English "butterfly".
No way! Thanks for the info! :)
@@neevabee_ Basically a slavic word rather for cream. In old germanic (including Angles and Saxons!) popular belief butterflies were shape-shifting witches whose intent was to sour the milk in cows udders.
So since the 'Schmetterling' is a loanword, the rather typical german noun for that kind of insects would be 'Falter', like in 'Nachtfalter' (in English simply moth) or 'Zitronenfalter' (common brimstone).
Schmetterling
die Bezeichnung des Falters ist seit dem 16. Jh. gebräuchlich und leitet sich von dem mitteldeutschen Wort Schmetten „Rahm“ ab, das seinerseits auf čech. smetana „Milch“ zurückgeht; die Benennung stützt sich auf den alten Volksglauben, nach dem Schmetterlinge verwandelte Hexen seien, die Milch und Sahne stahlen; regional wird der Schmetterling auch als Buttervogel bezeichnet, vgl. dazu engl. butterfly
wohoo I didn't know that the Moldava dude was called Milk 😂👍🏻💪🏻
@@peterpaulister I stick with cream. ;)
7:43 Tomate (big/normal size Tomato) and Tomätchen (small little tiny baby Tomato) is totally fine in German. You definitely can say that. :)
Heißt es "Tomatchen", oder "Tomätchen"? Oder wie wir im Schwäbischen sagen "Tomädle", egal wie groß die sind. :)
@@Samcaracha In der Regel wird bei der Verniedlichung mit „chen“
das a zum ä: Tomate - Tomätchen, Mann - Männchen, Garten - Gärtchen,
das u zu ü: Stuhl - Stühlchen, Mund - Stühlchen, Minute- Minütchen
das o zum ö: Sohn - Söhnchen, Thron - Thröhnchen, usw.
I liked this video a lot, I found it to be very compact, simple and fun. Your words were also very unique, thanks for sharing 😊
Merksatz: "-chen" und "-lein" machen alle Dinge klein!
And in the south of Germany: "-le". And -chen, -lein und -le makes every word neutral: der Stern -> das Sternchen. Interesting is also the difference between "Fräulein" und "Frauchen" or "Fräuchen". The first is a virgin, the second is a "Kosewort" for "Frau".
@@rolandscherer1574 - Die Endung -le ist hauptsächlich im Schwäbischen (Schwaben und Baden-Würtemberg) üblich z.B. Spätzle, Häusle, Mäusle.... In Franken gibts auch noch die Endung -la: Drei Werschdla im Weggla!
@@manfredfischer8944 Absolut richtig!
@@rolandscherer1574 in der Schweiz -li, z.B. Zückerli Österreich -erl z.B. Schwammerl, Grießnockerl
@@rolandscherer1574
Fräulein does not mean virgin. It is an oudated form to adress an unmarried women. Being unmarried and being a virgin is not the same. ^^
Yes, Frauchen can be a term of affection but is more used as mistress for a dog or cat.
So when the cat acts like she is dying by starvation, the fewmale cat owner can say: "Frauchen bringt Dir gleich was."
"Doch" is a beautiful and unique German word ;)
"You did'nt finish your homework"
"Doch! I did!"
The perfect start of a "nein" "doch" "nein" "doch" discussion
Max It is NOT unique to German. French „si“ works exactly the same.
Max I love any word with throat sounding “ch” in words like ach!
@@freedomdancerrj Tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen
In English, you don‘t even need a word. You just emphasize „did“ and you get the samemeaning like with German „doch“. Why do so many Germans think! „doch“ is so unique? I think they don‘t know English well enough.
Though "Na?" highly depends on the context. E.g. if I ask someone who just had an important meeting "Na?" I am asking them how the meeting went. It is more of a general encouragement for the other to talk about the most recent major event that you know about or, like you mentioned, a general asking about the state of affairs and for a personal evaluation of them.
Perfect definition!
It sounds so sweet when you say Schmetterling!
I Love the word Environment!
Tomätchen is totally a correct word that every German will understand and that you can find used if you google it
What a flashback. 20years ago I had a friend from overseas and I taught her some german, or to be more precise, I told her all those funny words and word constructions. And I used pretty much the same list of words like you did in this video. Even explained her the rules about "-chen" and so on.
It is really refreshing to hear one's own mother tongue explained by someone who is learning it because often enough we don't think about those things and take it for granted. Your ö-sound actually sounds quite good.
The great thing about German is that you can combine (almost) unlimited amounts of nouns to one:
Donauschifffahrtskapitänskajütenschlüssel
It‘s a bit of a stretch, but it is basically correct. (And it means „key for the cabin of the captain of a ship navigating on the (river) Donau“)
Ä, ö, ü is our revenge for the english "th".😛
Na, blöd?😉😅
The "Ö"-pronunciation shouldn't be a great deal to a native English speaker.
The German "ö" is just pronounced like the second "e" in "emergency", the "u" in "urgent" or the "i" in "James T. Kirk". 🙂
Clemens, this only really works for non-rhotic English speakers who don’t pronounce the “r” in the words you cite. For rhotic speakers (most Americans, Canadians and many northern English dialects) who pronounce the interior “r’s,” it’s just confusing. And it leads to language students inserting a spurious “r” into ö words in German.
No it's not the same.
This is the reason why Americans who learn German always keep their strong American accent.
If you can hear the actual pronunciation of the letter before the r, you can't hear an ö there.
@@bill2p You might be right. But it's an approach to the problem.
Clemens Kindermann it’s an approach that works for a limited subset of English speakers. But for a large number, it creates a problem - people putting a spurious “r” into German words because that’s what they think they were taught. When I (a fully rhotic English speaker) was taught how to say “ö” the teacher drilled us on the vowel sound until we nailed it. No “er’s.”
Hey Neeva, so here is your next subscriber. It was just heartwarming listening to you, as a german it always makes me smile when people from the United States or Great Britain speak german...and hey, you're doing REALLY good! So, as the second name in your profile says "bee" (german "Biene"), and you're such an adorable young woman, I can't help to call you "Bienchen"...and that's meant completely positive and respectful. What would you think about a "react to -" video, perhaps watching a german comedy show or something like that? Just an idea...have a great evening, stay safe, and most important: Stay as you are! Bye..
Es ist schön, dass mal jemand sagt "deutsch ist gar nicht so schwer" 👍
Die kleine Tomate ist gar nicht so falsch: ein Tomätchen
Die Eselsbrücke:
-chen und -lein
machen alles klein 😉
Es gibt tatsächlich auch ein altes deutsches Wort für Butter: Schmette - und weil die Schmetterlinge so gern die Molke, die beim Buttern entsteht, trinken... tadaaa: sein Name ist Schmetterling 🦋
Every German will understand "Tomätchen" - have fun :)
Schön aufs Brot mit Zwiebelchen 😂
@@revmarkus77 kann man dann auch mit einem Gäbelchen essen 😁😁
Schneid das Schittchen in Schnittchen 😂
Exactly. "Sprache lebt" as they like to say in Germany, so if it works for you go for it. Try greeting your favorite persons with "Na'chen..." - see what happens :]
"Zwei Gespensterchen saßen auf einem Klappfensterchen und machten Puffärmelchen." Originally this is a fun sentence which has to pronounced wrongly by stressing on the E*chen so on the syllable befor the diminutive suffix. Then no native speaker will understand it except those knowing this. The fun is that this wrong stressing does not sound as wrong as it is. With non compound words a native speaker will probably get that it is stressed at the wrong syllable, because it violates the rules of the language. With compound words, the native speaker's ear is forced to split the compound at wrong boundaries which results in unknown words. (E. g. what is a "Gespen" or "Gespin"? And what is a "Ster(chen)" or "Steer(chen)"?)
Happy to be #1031 following you!
it is beautiful how you approach the german language ... very sweet
Robin Williams once mentioned the untranslatable "Schadenfreude" in one of his stand up routines. The Dutch have been using "Uberhaupt" as a fashionable throw-inbetween -word for more than 30 years. My favorite: "Wir Schaffen das."I wish you best of both worlds from surreal Belgium.
Hahahaha... Soo great! I am german and absolutely love this video. The collection of words is funny and surprising like comedy for me... But i can feel you really love german language. Super!
You hear the Ö-sound in bird.
Keks actually derived from cakes.
A little tomato is actually a Tomätchen.
And you can add -chen to any noun, but sometimes you have to change the noun a bit.
Hi Neeva.
I have another one for you: "Lösung" which means "solution". The interesting thing about this german/english word is that Americans and Germans use it the same way. "Solution" in the sense of "the solution of a problem" or a "chemical solution". As much as you use "solution" in your mother language, "Lösung" means the very same things in german language. Well I don't think that this is coincidence and can be tracked down to the common roots of our languages, but i find it interesting, that this one has survived the ages.
Schön wie du deinen Landleuten versuchst deutsche Wörter zu erklären.......😉👍💪😎
My favorit german word is "Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung"
No one, German or not, should be forced to use that word 😂😂
Take the abbreviation: GrundVZÜV - part of the AKüFi syndrome ;)
Ha, ich wusste, sowas werde ich in den Kommentaren finden.
Ich möchte noch hinzufügen:
- Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänswitwe
und
- Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Hi i struggle all the Time in the same way in englisch, sometimes it's difficult, but your pronunciation sounds cute. But you are not shy,thats great. Many Regards from Germany Tilo
I just stumbled across your channel and really enjoyed your content so far - keep up the great work! ^_^
I'm not sure how much free time you got on your hands for editing your videos but it might be a good idea to ... shit, what's the English word for 'einblenden'? ... well ... to put the words (or individual points when you list stuff) on the screen for a couple of seconds - makes it a bit easier to follow and understand, looks nice and makes your list videos list-ier?! ... :D
Anyways, it's already way too late. I should be off to bed ... x3
Hello, The word “ausflippen” has a different history than to flip out. In former times pinball machines were very common in Germany. And they named in pseudo-english as “Flipper”.Hence when the ball runs into the off, the term was “ausflippen” The other word in German which refers to pinball is “Tillen”. It means somewone gets furious in a bad way. It’s roots when the “Flipper” not any linger works because of hitting and joilting the machine it goes to “Tilt”State
No way! That’s great information :) thank you!
Hi Neeva, it is a very nice vid! just for help: the Ö - sounbd can be spoken as the o in the English "word" or "world" or "burn". it is quite similar to that all. greets from Jena Mathias
Your last few words you said are the most interesting ones for me. You said "german is a quite simple language" ... which ich true. But you're also right by saying the gramma is difficult.
I love the way you speek german. :)
haha,you are on spot with tomatochen. love it. in german we have a saying "-chen und -lein macht alles klein" subed
Ein paar Tomätchen im Salat haben noch nie geschadet. Vor allem nicht neben Gürkchen. Nur Paprikachen oder Paprikalein gibt es wirklich nicht.
i always like the "thing" words in german:
feuerzeug -- fire thing -- lighter
werkzeug -- work thing -- tool
flugzeug -- fly thing -- plane
[...]
LoLrand0mness -zeug is rather stuff than thing
The cognate English word is "toy".
Your Look is amazing in this video! And you are kind of funny, putting „chen“ on every little thing :)
Nice with cat in background. I have just subscribed this channel. Danke
You need to explain the meaning of "Flugzeuge im Bauch" or "planes in the stomache" ...
will be an interesting story to tell or sing ...
A feeling everyone knows in 3 words and a tune that matches the words and vice versa
"Arzt" is the German word for "doctor". However, this word also pertains to a dentist: "Zahnarzt" = "tooth doctor". The English word "dentist" is derived from the Latin "dens" (tooth) and subsequently the French word "dent" and "dentiste". The German word for "ophthalmologist" is "Augenarzt" = "eye doctor". Sounds more simple and literal.
Die englischsprechenden Völker kennen im Gesundheitswesen fast nur die lateinischen Ausdrücke.
@@911fletcher Like the gynecologist (= Frauenarzt = woman doctor)
@@micha1976cgn Yes.
micha1976cgn That’s not from Latin. It’s Greek
@@Fbnkstr Ja, medizinische Fachausdrücke sind fast immer lateinisch/griechisch.
@Neeva Bee ... Thank you for giving me a special sight to my country. You make me laugh all the time you bring up a video. But to explain you can really end nearly every word with a 'chen, but in the case of Tomate it is an Tomätchen... and if you can't add a 'chen we have another ending it's 'lein. For example Herz.... it's Herzchen, okay so far, but it is also Herzlein, Blume... Blümchen or Blümelein, when they are tiny. German is really easy playing with words and combining them. That's why it is so complicated for us to learn other vocabularies, they don'combine words, which is naturally to us.
Another thing is the different colours of craftsmen, this is an european history thing. In former times only when you where member of a certain group of workers (called Gilde) you where allowed to wear their colours. And only they where allowed to wear these colours, as a hunter you had to wear a special green to show, that you officially where allowed to hunt, nobody else was allowed this colour. And so every guild has its own colour, leatherworkers, barbers, woodworkers, smithes and so on. And as an respect to history, or to stick in the past many of the craftsmen in germany and all over the rest of germany still wear the colour or template of their profession... It is a sign that you have to earn and can be proud of if you're allowed to wear it. Sure times have changed and now you can wear whatever you want, but it still is a rest of history sticking to present times. Difficult for me to explain, becaus it's years and years I had to use my english.
The cutifying endings depend on the region though. In some areas you say -chen in others -sche, -lein, -li, -le (with -chen and -lein being the predominant forms in Germany and -li in Switzerland)
The "deminutive" varies wildly, regionally - sometimes "-ke" in the western parts of Low German - which is very close to the "ka" of most Slavic languages ("Ivanka," "babushka
").
In Southern Germany the swabians say most to some thinks not ...-chen like Tomätchen, they say -le like Tomätle or Mädle for Mädchen or some else.
You forgot the greatest German word of them all: Doch!
It's used to object to a statement or question including a negation, like one including a "not". If you ask or say something in German that contains a negation, you agree with nein and object with doch.
In English you always agree with yes and object with no (if I'm not mistaken) which is pretty confusing and hard to keep in mind for Germans. Ask a German "Don't you agree?" and if he says no, you cannot be sure what he means. Hell, even now when thinking about it intensely, I don't know what yes or no would mean in English :)
"Doch" ist so ein legendäres Wort, anscheinend gibt es es nur im Deutschen.
Mach es doch auch. 🤣 Nice german sentence.
My TA called German 'aglutinative', in that words are compounded together to make new words.
"Na?" is a bit more complicated, as some have already written. I come from Northern Germany and have to do with Bavarians. If a customer says he has a problem, I often answer with "Na?". I mean "Erzählen Sie mal!" and he/she understands "Nein".
I also deal with people in Saxony-Anhalt and there "Na!" stands for yes.
You can use schmetterlinge more often in the saying "Schmetterlinge im Bauch". And hopefully for you and your partner you keep the feeling for life.
Awww yes we also have this saying in English!
My favorite words in German are "doch" and "sauer".
Sauer have many meanings, angry and sour.
But you can use this word as adjective for acid.
hey neeva, i love ur german ;)
As a former student in Germany, I have come to know that i speak some words even some Germans wouldn't know about it , like some technical words. Anyhow what I can say is that the German language is fun.My favorite term: Ich trinke nicht mehr....Aber auch nicht weniger. or Immer? nicht immer aber immer ofter ...as they used to say it in beer advert.Oh Ich vermesse Deutschalnd sehr...habe auch angefangen die spache zu vergessen.
Plattdeutsch the northern german dialect has sometimes similar words as english.
The butterfly would be Butter-fliege in German. But it is the Schmetterling in Hochdeutsch
But in Plattdeutsch it is the Bodderlecker meaning butter-licker which is more simillar to butterfly…
I speak no German but I can say "Das ist kaput" which can be said in so many situations.
kaputt :)
@@maverickwsv Sorry, I haven't got German spell checking in my browser. 😀
I have another suggestion for you; Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän, which means Captain of the Danube steamship company in English.
You can totally say "Tomätchen"... with fruits and veggies we often use -chen as "it's too tiny / it is too small" but in regard to vegetables rather in a negative way because you can usually get more for your money. But you can also use it as an expression for your surprise of how small a thing is. Gürkchen, Birnchen, Banänchen, Äpfelchen, Karöttchen etc. - So we would say "This rather a Tomätchen than a tomato".
Milchkaffee3000 My home dialect is Franconian spoken in the north east of Bavaria. Here we use the suffix -la to make things tiny and cute, actually for everything you feel is close and dear to you ... persons and things. The Standard German equivalent is -lein which means pretty much the same as -chen mentioned in the video. Often it is used to make things that may be offensive seem harmless. The keyboarder in my band lived in a tiny village among very conservative neighbours. We used to meet there and jam. His mother told neighbours; „Di buhm hamm a bänd-la‘ (The boys have a tiny cute little band.) That way they could accept our music ... or endure it for some hours. ;-)
4:54 - In fact it should! ... well, sort of 😉 The "o" in "work" or the first "e" in "perfect" for instance are pronounced exactly like the "ö" in German ... you're just not used to using it in any other combination of letters! 😄
And: English has a clear counterpart to the "-chen" suffix and that is "-let", it's just not used quite as often (at least that's my impression). Example: (German) Schweinchen = (English) piglet.
Brot -> Brötchen
A tiny cute bread, essentially.
You can put "-chen" after almost every word. You just have to check for the vocal turning Umlaut.
Magd -> Mädchen
Baum -> Bäumchen
Another way of doing this is to put "-lein" at the end. While "-chen" is more used on feminine words, "-lein" is rather masculine.
Sohn -> Söhnlein
Tisch -> Tischlein
In Swiss German "-lein" turns to "-li"
In German you can also use "-chen" or "-lein" in many cases.
Bäumlein, Söhnchen, Tischchen... it's just less comon the other way around but people understand it. And it's always a little or a cuter version of something.
Your example with Katze -> Kätzchen is all you need to know about this concept. Although the "-chen" is more cute than the "-lein" if that makes sense.
The english O in "Word" sound already (almost) like an Ö. Just use it. That should be good enough for the start. Dont overthink it.
You also can try something else: Say a german O and hold it...now change very slowly into a german E without stoping. Midway is the Ö. Just change forward and backward... you will find it. Its a voice warmup for singers, but it could help you.
Works also for Ä (A to E) and Ü (U to E or I)
I think in some english accents the o in world is pronounced the same way as ö, also the u in burn and there are other examples, but I guess it depends on the region/accent.
You are actually almost correct. It's "Tomätchen" (I guess we kind of cut it up to make it less of a mouthful).
Your ‚ö‘ is very good, almost perfect.
Here some other words/animals:
Libelle -> Dragonfly
Kröte -> Toad
Schildkröte -> Turtle
Strauss -> Ostrich
Nilpferd -> Hippo
Nashorn -> Rhino
Stinktier -> Skunk
We say for Krankenwagen "Sanka" it's a military ambulance. But we say it all the Time for a regular Krankenwagen.
hey neeva do you know that the words "butterfly" and "schmetterling" have the same semantic backround? "butter" in the word butterfly realy comes from butter. the wings of the butterfly move up and down like the move you make while stamping the butter. so "stamping butter" in german is called "butter schmettern" (=schmetterling).
Eines der besten deutschen Wörter (für mich) ist: Waldeinsamkeit. Soweit ich weiß wurde das von einem Dichter eingeführt und eigentlich nicht genutzt.
Hi Neeva, thanks, had a lot of fun :-)
Re. "Na?": maybe you should add that "Na?" is rather informal (appropriate for friends, pupils, students, younger people) while "How are you?" is more appropriate when you met people you are not familiar with yet.
Schmetterlinge = butterflies (Plural). Singular: Schmetterling.
Btw, "Keks" comes from "cakes" indeed (just to make it even more complicated ;-)
The terminus technicus for " ...chen" is "diminutive". You can find diminutives in many Slavian languages too.
Best German word especially for kids is "doch". With "doch" you can just contradict any negated expression like "Don't you like it?" Now you don't have to say "Yes, I do!", but just "Doch!!"
"Doch" the german word that can be pronounced in thousand different ways and each can have at least 5 different meanings. :-)
The funniest German words are from a dialect called "Beamtendeutsch", which is basically civil servent German. They discribe the words unequivocally:
- Einachsiger Dreseitenkipper (Single-axle three-way tipper) = wheelbarrow/pushcart
- Raumübergreifendes Großgrün (Cross-room large green) = tree
- Personenvereinzelungsanlage (People isolation system) = turnstile
- Falle Schnapp für Kleintier, grau, beweglich (Snap trap for small animals, gray, movable) = mousetrap
- Lautraum (Sound space) = discotheque
This is even hilarious to us Germans :o).
Schmetterling = smetana (czech for cream/butter)
Just a comment concerning 'Na. It's often used when you think there is more some one wants to say but doesn't dare to say.
I would not say "Na" is mainly used as a question. Then we would say "Na, wie geht´s?" or "Na, was machst du heute?". Na is more of a form of "passive" greeting. You don´t really say hello but you just make sure you are there. In the eastern part "Na" is also used as "Yes". Then again, na can also be used as no. A very versatile word.
you can attach -chen or -lein (same meaning) too basically every german nomen to make it sound cuter. some crazy german aunts will also attach it to ur goddamn name. like nope, she doesn’t say “hi lilly”, she says “hallo lillychen” (on purpose, she knows i can’t stand it)...
Just as a tiny warning, "filler words" like Na (they are usually either at the beginning or the end of a sentence) are usually regional (that's true for most languages, not only German). Something you'd constantly hear in lets say Hamburg might cause very confused stares in Vienna.
Good to know thanks!
To confuse you a bit: In most words you can use -chen or -lein to make them small and cute. But the small version of Herr (sir) is Herrchen and this can be a male or female owner of a pet/animal like a dog, while the word Herrlein doesn't exist. Sometimes also Frauchen (the small version of woman) is used for a female owner of a pet, while Fräulein is an old-fashioned word for an unmarried woman, which you don't use anymore. So sometimes the words get a new meaning in the small version or doesn't exist.
The german "ö" is spoken like the "u" in blurred, or the "e" in German or Herrman .
you're adorable! I would say it is very common in Germany to use " 'chen" to describe a much smaller or tiny version of something. Besides that the word "Mäuschen" is often used as a cute name for your partner.
Fuetchen
I loved this video. You're right that German is somehow basic when it comes to words, as the language simply expresses things weird to word
hi :). tiny tomato in german: tomatochen is not "possible" but tomatchen is understandable and cute and funny but not very used to
Das Wort "Keks" stammt übrigens tatsächlich vom englischen "cake" ab. Es war, wenn ich nicht irre, Leibniz (ein Hersteller von Keksen), der das Wort "erfunden" hat. Das Problem mit dem englischen Wort war, dass er es so nicht auf seine Schachteln drucken konnte, weil damals Englisch nicht sehr verbreitet war und die Deutschen es auch Deutsch aussprechen würden, was dann ähnlich klingt wie... Du wirst es herausfinden. Also wählte er als Namen für sein Produkt einfach "cakes" - in Deutsch ausgesprochen, also "Keks".
for ö-sound say an o and pull your lower jaw back (into your head) ... if your relaxed enough your tounge will rise little still in the o-form ... I don't know if this helps 😅
Yes hahaha thank you!!
What me confuses most regarding the english language is, that „everything“ that flies is a fly and everything that swims is a fish. Almost. Or at least some. Like butterfly, firefly, greenfly, harvest fly or shellfish, crayfish, jellyfish 😉
I never thought of that!!
With more biological sense, like jelly or sea jelly, or seastar, a cuttle should be a seacuttle ...
Your ö sounds nearly perfect! And you actually DO have that sound in English, too, e. g. in the word "word" the English o is pronounced just like the German ö. But it's the version with open vowel like in "Törtchen" ("-chen" form of "Torte" = "cake"), "hörte" ("heared") or "löschen" ("delete" or "eliminate")
ö in "blöd" is the closed vowel version that's also found e. g. in the word "schön" ("nice" or "beautiful" or "handsome") - don't confuse the words "schon" ("already" or "very") and "schön"!
You can learn that sentence: "Das ist schon schön." which means "That's really nice."
klay brig is good, sounds like sticky clay in the earth , that i can make pots with.
other examples of good ones are russian смущать smooshchet = 'embarrasing sound of confused blushing' , smoosh chet, love dat one. schmooshshey wooshey...
I'm also American and some of my favorite German words: spuren, Sehnsucht, Strassenbahn, München, Vergnügen, Dämmerung, Neigung, Reeperbahn...
@Wolfgang Preier Jawohl! Besonders Nachts um halb eins!
@@wallykaspars9700 sorryi could only give u one thumbs up - best replay btw and Moin from HH
Richtig nette Darstellung der kleinen Sprachprobleme für Amis die Deutsch lernen! Auch wenn ich nicht jedes Wort sofort verstanden habe (z.B. blöd..) finde ich das Video richtig nett und total süß!!! ;o))
Try this one: Doch!
It's Kekse but you say it like Kaykse. If a German native says I don't really here the strong similiarity to cake. Krankenwagen is not sick car I would rather translate to sick people car. Congrats to 1k subs. You will grow exponentally. Your channel really has potential.
Krankenwagen is more like „sick person transporter“, because Kranken is from der Kranke (the injured, the sick one).
The ö in Blöd is just pronounced like the o in work. At least kind of,
or Earn or Heard or Learn or Burn...
the "kind of" is the problem. The fully closed, stressed pronunciation does not exist in English, at least AFAIK.
@@HotelPapa100 you're right but better this ö than an o
@@karinbirkenbihl2053 Oh, definitely. I hate it when 'Mericuns just ignore diacritics.
6:04 "(...) as an American speaking English". I think you meant as an American speaking German. 🤭🤭🤭 Btw your vid is fantastic, I'm learning German and I totally liked your examples. To give you a hint you can produce the sound ö in German as the same "eu" combination in French represented in the IPA as /ø/, which is sort of a vowel in between /e/and /o/. You round your lips as though you were to say /o/, but you actually release a soft /e/ sound with the shape of an /o/ in your lips. I hope that makes sense and can help you pronounce the ö vowel sound better. Best regards Neeva.
You can really make everything small by adding -chen or -lein to the word. "Oh, ich habe an diesem Stäudchen gerade ein kleines Erdbeerlein gefunden" (Look, I just found a small strawberry on this little brush) is perfect German.
But my favorite word is the
Außenfeuchtigkeitsmesser.
außen, outside, that can be guessed.
Feuchtigkeit, you mentioned it, is humidity.
But "Messer"? It's a knife, isn't it?
But, in this word, "messer" comes from "measure" ("messen" in German), and it means an
"outside air humidity measuring device".
And, to make the mess complete, a Messe is a mass: Not a mass of people, but a religious assembly in a church.
Now, you might ask, what is "mess" in German? A Durcheinander or chaos, that's what a mess is. And a "Messie" in German is an unorganized person.
Have fun with more German words that are sometimes "false friends", or sometimes simply funny. I'd be happy if you made a video out of this small contribution.
Gänseblümchen is a lovely word...😊
The good thing about all words ending in the 'chen are neutral regardless of the gender. So it is "das Mädchen" (girl) and "das Hundchen" (little dog). You don't have to worry about the gender of the article like "die (feminine) Frau" or der (masculine) Hund. My favorite German word is "(das)
Eichhörnchen" (squirrel) when translated literally is "little acorn dog" (Eichel - acorn , Hundchen - little dog) It is about as hard for an American to say in German as squirrel is for a German in English. Also for words ending in "d" in German have more of a "t" sound and "g" is more like a "k" sound in Engish.
Na, and how about Feierabend and (am Wochenende) ausschlafen?😂 Or spazieren gehen? It’s “more” than just walking, but less than hiking.😅 I speak 4 languages, that’s probably why I’m interested in such details.
We do use "-chen" constantly. And if "-chen" doesn't sound right, "-lein" will do the job.
Besides the "na?" we also have a "ne?" which we use when we need confirmation...but has, of course, nothing to do with the equally popular "nee..." which means NO.
My favourite German word is "jein"...
Loved the video and how nicely you talked about the language. Subcribed...
Also...perfect timing "I'm gonna talk about the Umlaut Ö." Cat: "I'm outta here..."
With "chen", the name "Grete" (short form of Margarete / Margret) comes to mind, which is often given in American as "Gretchen" (meaning: little Grete ** Margarete / Margret).
The name is currently not very popular in Germany and here you would only use this diminutive in the family circle as long as the girl is still very young and not as a regular name.
The "chen" with the Tomato is correct in German "Tomätchen".
The Ö you say is more like an Ü ,try to make your lips a little bit more"Round" when you say Ö.
Greets from Germany.:)
Okay thanks! :)
It is called Tomätchen. :-) There are also Gürkchen or Zwiebelchen, Böhnchen, Träubchen and so on.
Did you notice that with Luftfeuchtigkeit and Krankenwagen the corresponding English word is of Latin origin?
Many words in the western hemisphere based of latin. For example Window= Fenster in german= fenstram in latin, or Toilet= in german= Toilette or Latrine, in latin latrina and many more. Romans/latin influence is still read- and hearable :-)
@@kanor68 I know. Aber mir ging es hier um die unterschiedliche Entwicklung im Englischen bzw. Deutschen.
@@wora1111 Na ja, die ist wohl hauptsächlich auf die unterschiedlichen Dialekte und deren Vereinigung zu einer einheitlichen Sprache zurück zu führen. Und darauf, das der Syntax in der deutschen Sprache etwas komplizierter ist, als in anderen westlichen Sprachen, wie Du ja schon erwähnt hast :-)
@@kanor68 Hmm, bin nicht ganz überzeugt. Das "Mehr" an lateinischen Begriffen ist mir aufgefallen, als Hailey ihren Freund auf seine Englischkenntnisse getestet hat. Und ihre englischen Worte waren großteils aus dem Lateinischen übernommen. Oder denk an "incumbent", den Amtsinhaber. Und seid ich drauf schaue, sehe ich natürlich immer weitere (=selektive Wahrnehmung :-) )
Schmetterlinge ist Plural, Schmetterling Singular.
"Keks" actually was derived from english "cake". In 1891, Hermann Bahlsen produced "Butter Cakes", but people had a hard time pronouncing it correctly, so the name officially changed to "Leibnitz-Keks". Eventually, in 1911 the word "Keks" made it into the Duden as a generic term for crunchy biscuits. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz-Keks)