@all: Thanks for pointing out that I pronounced "adjective" incorrectly. I will do it better next time and I'm sorry for having made the mistake in the first place. Thought about "objective" and didn't question it. English is a foreign language to me after all. :)
Yeah, when you said it it sounded a little bit like the beginning of "ejaculate", lol. But let me be even more than nine times smartassy by pointing out that the German ending -ig (or -isch / -ich) does *not* translate into "-ish" in English! The "-ish" ending has completely another meaning: It makes something fuzzy in a "kinda sorta" way, so if you ask someone if they are hungry, and they reply "yes, I'm hungry ... -ish." it means they aren't really that hungry. They would come with you to eat, but it's not like they couldn't wait another few hours. There are actual English adjectives that can be used that way by adding the ending -ish to them, but the colloquial English language has expanded the usage of this -ish ending to every adjective, with the meaning mentioned above. By doing that, you made a totally typical German mistake, so it's not a big problem (although it's wrong, anyone with half a brain cell will still understand you), but I want to point it out anyways, in order to educate you. The proper ending for the German "-ig" or "-isch" would be the simple "-y"!
I understand your point, but I didn't use the -ish by accident. I'm aware of its use. :) The translations are all fantasy words, so I decided to go for the -ish sometimes where it felt right and where the y-version just sounded off. I've heard native speakers saying stuff like "this you're kinda hungry, but not really"-ish feeling, which made me think that -ish is a good option for new quirky word creations. I may be wrong, but that was the plan behind it. :D
DontTrustTheRabbit I actually found only one word where the -ish sounded appropriate-ish ;) - that was "high-nosish", and that was only because "nosy" already has another meaning in English.
I can mention a few funny adjectives in Spanish (most of them only used in Colombia): - Lambirico: someone who just gets in everyone's business without asking them. - Babascaidas: It literally means saliva falling down, it describes a stupid person. - Lamesuelas: Literally someone who licks soles. In English would be something like "butt-kisser" - Visajoso: Someone who wants attention all the time or excessively shows off their stuff. - Agüevado (also spelled ahuevado): Someone who's just too scared to do something. - Getilargo: It literally means long face. It can be said to someone who looks sad or upset. - Lengüilargo: Literally someone with a long tongue. Someone who cannot keep a secret or is too reckless. - Chichipato: something of a very low quality, or someone who is very miserly (also you can say michicato). Those are the ones I can think of, but there are many more.
Im südlichen Teil Deutschlands und in Österreich bedeutet "Fotze" jedoch auch Mund. (vgl. Mundharmonika = Fotzenhobel) Ich denke "hinterfotzig" kommt eher aus dieser Richtung und bezeichnet eben das Sprechen hinter dem Rücken einer Person.
Selbst als Deutscher (bzw. Deutschsprecher) ist sowas echt lehrreich ^^ Einige der Adjektive waren für mich ehrlich gesagt sogar vollkommen neu, von anderen wusste ich die genaue Bedeutung nicht :D Auf jeden Fall wieder ein super Video 😊 Even as a German (or a German speaker) this is all very informative ^^ Some of the adjectives were even completely new to me, while for some others I didn't know their exact meaning :D Anyway, an awesome video again 😊
Why is EVERYONE freaking out about the pronunciation of one stupid word? I would really love to hear most of you guys speak German without pronouncing anything wrong 🙄
But she didn't ask for it, there is a difference :) I make mistakes on my German channels sometimes and there are always a bunch for people pointing out the same mistake. Although 1. I didn't ask for it and it's irrelevant and 2. one person already pointed it out, there is no need for another 20 to do that.
Of course she didn't ask for it. If she knew it wasn't right, she wouldn't have misspoke. Admittedly some of the corrections come off as a bit severe, and there are way too many of them, but those people undoubtedly mean well.
What I mean was, she haven't asked anyone to correct her at all. She is here to teach you German, not the other way around. Some mean well yes, but if it has been pointed out several times there is no need to post any more comments about it. Doesn't matter. I'm just saying I know how she might feel about a bunch of people pointing out the same mistake.
Hi Trixie! This is one of your best! Some of the adjectives fit our former German expat office assistant at work. We really miss her. Not!! An exact fit for her: hoch-nasig, gros-kotzig, klein-kariert, and especially kratz-burstig! Danke! :)
Hey Trixie! I really enjoyed your video on meanings of the German adjectives. I am studying German, since the nineteenth century Hunsrückisch dialect spoken here in southern Brazil and we learn in school does not look much like what is spoken there in Germany ... hahaha I just discovered that I have spoken "adjective" wrong my whole life, but this is part of learning. Incidentally, "hoch-näsig" is the same as "nariz empinado" in Portuguese, we use from time to time.
Native German speakers normally don't think much about it, but it's a good idea to translate some of the adjectives, to realize HOW funny some of them are. If there is a part 2 to follow, I would suggest "hellseherisch" vs. "schwarzseherisch" (which is not the real counterpart).
Hey, Trixi, your video today was great. I learned not only how to pronounce adjective correctly (used to do it the same way you did), but I also pronounced lunatic on the second syllable, not the first. This you got right.😆 Thank you. And by the way, my favorite adjective still is “blümerant“.
In Norwegian, we have "hårreisende", which is our equivalent to "haarsträubend" with the same meaning and we also have "vanvittig" which has the same meaning as "wahnwitzig" and it almost sounds exactly the same and easy to recognize for me as a Norwegian. We have also borrowed "schadenfreude" from German which is the noun form of "schadenfroh" and it frequently pops up in our language when we are amused by someone else's misfortune. These were all great examples in your video and nice additions to my vocabulary being a learner of German :)
I was thinking the exact same things :-) Sometimes it is an advantage to know Norwegian, but I still struggle like **** to build the sentences correctly...
We have lots of expressions in Scandinavian languages that are word-for-word the same as German, and I often wonder how much of it is actual loan translations (calques) from German and how much of it is common ancient germanic expressions that have simply been evolving along with the languages.
Say It In Swedish In Sweden I guess we could have a rule of thumb that if the word was relevant to cities or trade in the 1300s-1500s but not in the Viking era and has a similar word in German, then it comes from German.
I just have to be "klugscheißerisch" *ggg* "hinterfotzig" definitely does not originate from the german slang word for the female genitalia BUT the bavarian and austrian slang word for "mouth" (fotzn); the fotznspangler thus is a dentist ... :-) greetings from Munich...
Great video, really top-drawer! One thing, though, and I'm not complaining, it just struck me as funny how you pronounce "adjective." It may be different in the UK, but here in the US, we accent it on the first syllable. Thanks for everything that you do here!
I really love your videos! They always make laugh the way you describe things with your whole body! And I learn a lot about both languages Thanks so much!!!
Fuck I love her sense of humour! The more I watch those videos I learn a fuck lot faster. If I ever go to Germany and have a chance to meet her, I'll invite her and Eric for a beer, I bet it would be a hard evening for the abdominals (from laughing so much). I do have the same kind of humour. Peoples sometimes don't get it but after a good thinking... 3 days later...
DontTrustTheRabbit Octoberfest would be great! If you see a dude who looks a bit like Sigmund Freud with a shirt with a Canadian flag who answer the name Patrick (I will recognise you for sure) someday.The odds that we stumble in a crowd are like one in 80.62 million. But eh! everything is possible. I you travel to Montreal Canada, the chances are 1:1.65 millions and we have very good artisan beers and awesome international food!
For the one about having your nose up, in English, we also say haughty (you can still kinda see hoch (de) / haut (fr) in there) or stuck-up (maybe referring to the nose. In my region, we also say in French "avoir le nez en l'air" (to have the nose up).
You simply have to be the best interactive teacher on TH-cam :) Make a DVD and sell it you're doing great! P.S. You simply have to be the cutest on here too! where are your flaws? :)
I have never heard schadenfroh before, but the noun schadenfreude has become part of the English language (probably because we are too nice to have a word of our own for such a bad thing).
Thing is "Fotze" means "mouth" in south Germany and Austria. So I'd say "hinterfotzig" means "behind mouthed", like talking behind someones back. Actually Wikipedia says just that.
Hoch-näsig is better in the Danish Version. We say høj-røvet (High assed). The same for Kalt-Schäuzig, Kold i røven (cold in the ass). I spot a theme here. As always many of the German words appear in Danish well. Schaden-froh, Skade-fro. Hundeelen/Hundsmiserabel, Hundeelendig. Wahn-witzig, vanvittig, Kratz-bürstig, Kradsbørstig
Hi Trixie! In Swedish we say "skadeglad" = the same as schadenfroh. We also call annoying know-it-all-people "besserwisser". :) Also "fisförnäm" is a word to describe people like großkotzig did in German, and it literally means "fart-posh"!
I heard this from an Australian once when he was describing a situation while on safari in Africa. He was charged by a rhino and he described his fear as "my bunghole was twittering like a virgin's eyelashes". Just imagine the Aussie accent with this line. I couldn't stop laughing.
Hi Trixie, not relevant to the topic of the video, but the top you have on really suits you, it's such a nice colour.The video is also very entertaining and educational to watch.
Have you ever seen the 70s show "All In The Family"? The first time Archie Bunker meets Mike Stivic what he says in English in German translates to: "Sie sind ein dummkoph... Tot vom hals aufwärts!" I have been playing with google and learning some good stuff.
In italian we call a person who is ashamed of nothing (even when he says or does the worst things) "faccia di bronzo", that is "Brass face" because brass is metal-hard like the facial expression of the person who never feels the need to apologize...
In English a stuck-up person is said to have their nose in the air, so your German is pretty much the same. And the dog thing, we have the dog days, sick as a dog, dog tired. Evidently, even though dogs are happy we associate them with bad things. BTW, your videos are fun. Thanks for sharing.
What this person is trying to tell you, in not so easy or polite way, is that the stress falls on the first syllable, much like in the word, "apple", with the rhythm of the whole word being very similar to "objective". Perhaps I will be called "neunmal-klug" now. Ha!
Hey Trixie, your English is great! your vids are entertaining and educational, as well. Your English vocabulary, pronunciation, grammatical phrases and such are actually better than some of the lame-brains who claim English is their muttersprache..!!
Mit dem Adjektiv "wahnwitzig" kann ich dir helfen: Das Wort "Witz" hatte früher (auf jeden Fall bis ins 19. Jahrhundert) im Deutschen den selben Bedeutungsumfang wie das englische "wit", also Verstand, Geist, Sinn, Witz. Wenn man jemanden als "gewitzt" beschrieb, meinte man damit, dass er klug oder einfallsreich ist, ein "witziger Gedanke" war ein kluger oder geistreicher Einfall. "Wahnwitzig" bedeutet dementsprechend einfach verrückt oder irrsinnig. "Witz" und das davon abgeleitetet "witzig" hat heute allerdings im deutschen Sprachgebrauch diese Bedeutung verloren und bezeichnet nur noch die kurze lustige Erzählung. Und das ganze ist jetzt ein gutes Beispiel für einen neunmalklugen Kommentar :)
Genauer gesagt bedeutete Witz den Verstand und Wahn die Leere, ahd. wanwizzi = ohne Verstand, unverständlich. Siehe Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache ^^
We have besserwisserisch and Schaden-froh too in Swedish. They're spelled a different way (it's spelled only besserwisser in Swedish) but literally means the same thing!
Well, besserwisser IS the noun, so actually we spell it exactly like in German. Schadenfroh got a literal translation though to "skadeglad" but you knew that ;)
Great vid! Your English is generally excellent, and I don't want to come across as a besserwisserisch or neuenmalklus, but the English word "adjective" is pronounced AD'juh-tiv! :-)
English has several that are simliar, Like the hair ruffling thing, at least state side we use feather ruffling. But that might be getting western slang mixed in with it, like dern tootin' when you agree with something.
A strange adjective I heard was "frohmude" which was "happily tired." After running a ten-kilometer race, you may be tired, but you are also happy you did it. Interesting language.
I only know Frohesmutes (happy temper)... but I never heard of frohmüde but the german language is as good of creating new words like the english in take it from other languages :-)
Andreas Zimmermann I also never heard (or read) "Frohesmutes" as an adjective before. Seems to be a special (local?) version of "frohen Mutes" (lit. good mood), which is an old term for happy or even "confident", not halfhearted.
It could be funny, if you made a video about some weird phrases in german. Such as "Große Klappe und nichts dahinter". Or "jemand hat den Kopf nur auf den Schultern, damit es nicht reinregnet."
Hello! I'm a native English speaker (specifically Mid-Atlantic American), and we have a number of very similar words and phrases to these German adjectives you have presented (though they aren't always as funny as yours). My apologies if you already know the following or if it's more than you cared to know Along the lines of "besserwisserich" and "neunmalklug," we have "know-it-all" and "wisenheimer." "Know-it-all" is pretty straight forward (a person acting as if they know all). "Wisenheimer" is weird and perhaps not so funny, though. It's "wise" plus "-enheimer" in an effort to mirror a German surname, like "Guggenheimer" or "Oppenheimer." The word dates to 1912, so I guess it's being made to look German is because of Germany's high reputation for academics coupled with the animosity many Americans felt towards German immigrants at the time. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it and people just liked the way it sounded. I don't really know. While we don't have an adjective for it, we do have the expression "sick as a dog," which mirrors the German adjectives "hundeeland" and "hundsmiserabel." Like you, I never understood why dogs were associated with feeling ill. We, too, use "cold" to convey a sense of callousness, but instead of calling such people "cold snouted"/"kaltschnäuzig," English has "cold hearted." I think German also has this word? Similar to the German "haarsträuben," American English has "hair-raising," for outrageous, scary, or exciting events. While speaking of hair, American English will use the "hairy" to describe a situation that is uncomfortable or alarming. Finally, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but American English speakers have actually adopted the German noun "schadenfreude" into our own language because we found it to be such a useful word.
Hallo Trixi!!! ich hab dein erstes Video gesehen und ich glaube dass sogar jetzt Fünf Jahre hatten vorbei, du bist so stark, hübsch und projektiert eine fantastische Personalität (Psychologiedienstgesicht). Sowieso hoffe dass 100,000 dreimal Subscribers müssen deiner Canal besuchen und zurückschreiben an. L.G.
I'd rather say, that people who are hochnäsig do not look down on others (then the nose would point down anyway), they look up and away from them because these other people are clearly not even worth to be looked at. Addendum: Great video. I didn't even think about how strange these words are when you translate them. They are totally normal in German. But now I would be interested in funny English adjectives. But my mind does not come up with any. Can you help me, Trixi? I feel so vacuous right now :P Sozusagen vakuumös (and no, not another word for you-know-what).
High nosish here in the Dakota's some say "Her feet must stink!" (Her stinky feet make her hold her nose so high!" or simply, "She always has her nose in the air!"
Trixi I have a question about dreams and writing knowing you like to write, Have you after writing a story or something had long vivid dreams. Recently I twice wrote letters to my sister just before going to bed and had long vivid dreams. If you don't recall such an experience I'd like you try an experiment. Write something before you go to sleep you only have to fill one page with thoughts you were engaged in and the next morning remember what you can about your dream if you had one and see if it was different from your normal dreams.
OMG ich musste beim Nashorn so hart lachen als du die kommentare eingefügt hast xD. Aber irgendwo tut es mir auch leid ... stört es dich eigentlich, das viele leute nur über deine Brüste schreiben oder findest du das irgendwie lustig? Schönes video ^^
Liebe Trixie, ich würde dich gerne etwas zum Schreiben fragen. Und zwar wie beginnst du deine Storys? Also machst du dir erst eine Art Stoffsammlung und überlegst dir, wie die Story aufgebaut ist und über was sie gehen soll und machst Vorarbeit oder ist es eher so, dass du einfach drauf los schreibst? Oder fällt dir einfach so plötzlich, wenn du in deinem Bett sitzt oder auf dem Weg zur Arbeit bist irgend ein Charakter/eine Figur oder eine "Szene" ein...? Kurz gesagt, wie fängst du eine Geschichte an? Vielen Dank für die Antwort schon im Voraus (vielleicht auch als Videoform?). Falls jemand anderes hier Erfahrungen im Schreiben hat, würde ich mich natürlich auch über Eure Beiträge freuen :). Gruß Mo
Hi Mo, normalerweise kommt mir die grundsätzliche Idee und die Message einer Geschichte irgendwann ganz plötzlich und spontan. Dann kommen immer mehr kleine Einfälle dazu, die ich in ein Notizbuch (oder notfalls auf Servietten, Klopapier oder meine Hand) schreibe. Wenn ich genug gesammelt habe, schreibe ich die größeren Ereignisse der Story auf ein Blatt Papier, schneide sie als kleine Zettelchen aus und ordne sie nebeneinander chronologisch an. Dann mache ich neue Zettel, die je für ein Kapitel stehen und klebe die Ereigniszettelchen auf. Damit steht das Grundgerüst und ich kann mich schon mal nicht mehr extrem vertüdeln. Die Kleinigkeiten dazwischen fallen mir dann spontan ein. Am liebsten würde ich immer sofort drauflosschreiben und erlaube mir das manchmal auch, aber ich liiiiiiebe es, wenn in Büchern etwas, das am Anfang erwähnt wird, am Ende oder in der Mitte wieder aufgegriffen wird, wenn man merkt, dass die Geschichte rund ist und jeder Gedanke seinen Zweck hat, weil er früher oder später noch mal wichtig wird. Und das möchte ich in meiner Geschichte auch, der Leser merkt dadurch, dass der Autor sich in seiner eigenen Geschichte auskennt. Wenn man Geschichten mal mit einem Haus vergleicht, plane ich also zuerst das Grundgerüst und baue erst, wenn der Plan fertig ist. Bei allem Weiteren (die Art der Wände, Türen, Fenster, Wandfarben und vor allem die komplette Inneneinrichtung) sind dann meiner Fantasie keine Grenzen gesetzt und ich lasse mich von meinem eigenen Kopf überraschen. Ich hoffe, das hat dir geholfen und beantwortet deine Frage. :) LG Trixi
Wie cool! Danke, danke! :) Das hilft mir sehr und den Vergleich mit dem Haus finde ich echt gut! Danke für die super schnelle und ausführliche Antwort!!
Ein interessantes Adjektiv ist 'merkwürdig', denn für jeden bedeutet das heutzutage 'seltsam'. Nimmt man es aber wörtlich, so beschreibt es etwas, das des Merkens würdig ist, also etwas Besonderes oder Wertvolles.
Nicht dass ich mich mit der Etymologie von "hinterfotzig"beschäftigt hätte, aber ich habe Zweifel an dieser Auslegung. Wo ich herkomme, wird das Maul von Tieren oder auch der menschliche Mund manchmal abschätzig "Fotz" genannt (die Mundharmonika auch manchmal "Fotzhobel"), und wenn jemand eine Ohrfeige bekommt hat ihn jemand "gefotzt"(oder im Dialekt "o'gfotzt"). Not that i tried to find out the etymology of "hinterfotzig" but i have some doubts about the translation... Where i come from the mouth of animals or people sometimes is referred to as "fotz" (not nice...) the mouthorgan is sometimes called "fotzhobel", and if somebody slaps someone in the face the later one gets "o'gfotzt".
Sorry, Trixie, but it's AD-jec-tive, not ad-JEC-tive. (Emphasis on first syllable.) I love the way Germanic languages form adjectives out of common native words. I wish English did that and didn't try to mix in so much French, Latin, and Greek. Speaking of Germanic languages, when I lived in Sweden, I taught a class in the park to youth about American sports. When I told somebody about the class, he asked if my students were "vetgirig". That's a great adjective, and it literally means "know-greedy", or perhaps "eager to learn". I think the Germans would say "weissgierig".
Achtung besserwisserischer Kommentar: "Wahn" ist übersetzt nicht "mania" sondern "delusion/delusional". Mania wäre wieder ein anderes Symptom aus der Psychiatriewelt ;) aber sonst wie immer ein gutes Video! (ich habs nur nicht so gerne wenn falsche Informationen über psychische Krankheiten verbreitet werden, davon gibt es schon zu viele)
Oldsmart and sharptongued, moneyhorny and therefore throatoffcuttish, miserypetery but sagalike and with a tendency to become unheld. And no, I'm not talking professionchinese, I'm just languagetalented!
My husband always points at escalators and asks "do you know what the German word for escalator literally translates to???" I've heard this so many times, I don't know what the German word is.... I just know it means "rolling stairs"
Love your channel; love your adjectives. I'm blind, and gives a speech synthesizer for text output. This, unfortunately, has led to some very awkward pronunciations on my part. Any Errors are a result of voice dictation. My computer is screwed, so I'm using voice dictation via the iPhone. Peac
Genial. Wenn man sich mal die englische Übersetzung anhört, dann fällt erst auf, wie bekloppt diese Adjektive eigentlich sind. Ich geh mal in die Ecke und lache zuende...
DontTrustTheRabbit Curious how you'd pronounce something like "what did you say"? Watching your videos has had me thinking about all the automatic bastardization of the language we commit when speaking. Most (not all) Americans in casual conversation would pronounce "what did you" something like "wuhd-jyew". It's totally unrelated to this video, just curious, hah.
"Hinterfotzig" stems from the old bavarian wort "Fotz'n" meaning mouth, and "hinterrücks", behind ones back. there is no obvious ethymological connection to the vulgar words for the vulva, Futt or Fotze, that trace back to ancient times.
@all: Thanks for pointing out that I pronounced "adjective" incorrectly. I will do it better next time and I'm sorry for having made the mistake in the first place. Thought about "objective" and didn't question it. English is a foreign language to me after all. :)
Yeah, when you said it it sounded a little bit like the beginning of "ejaculate", lol. But let me be even more than nine times smartassy by pointing out that the German ending -ig (or -isch / -ich) does *not* translate into "-ish" in English! The "-ish" ending has completely another meaning: It makes something fuzzy in a "kinda sorta" way, so if you ask someone if they are hungry, and they reply "yes, I'm hungry ... -ish." it means they aren't really that hungry. They would come with you to eat, but it's not like they couldn't wait another few hours. There are actual English adjectives that can be used that way by adding the ending -ish to them, but the colloquial English language has expanded the usage of this -ish ending to every adjective, with the meaning mentioned above.
By doing that, you made a totally typical German mistake, so it's not a big problem (although it's wrong, anyone with half a brain cell will still understand you), but I want to point it out anyways, in order to educate you. The proper ending for the German "-ig" or "-isch" would be the simple "-y"!
DontTrustTheRabbit 7:46 it sounded kinda cute ,like my cat when it s angry :). ,,neunmalklug'' what a word .
I understand your point, but I didn't use the -ish by accident. I'm aware of its use. :) The translations are all fantasy words, so I decided to go for the -ish sometimes where it felt right and where the y-version just sounded off.
I've heard native speakers saying stuff like "this you're kinda hungry, but not really"-ish feeling, which made me think that -ish is a good option for new quirky word creations. I may be wrong, but that was the plan behind it. :D
DontTrustTheRabbit I actually found only one word where the -ish sounded appropriate-ish ;) - that was "high-nosish", and that was only because "nosy" already has another meaning in English.
DontTrustTheRabbit Hi ich bin deutscher
Herz-Kreislauf System = Heart circle run system :D Flugzeug = Flying thing
flight stuff
Autobahnausfahrt
cartrainoutdrive...well this is a quote from my english teacher
Katja Schweim also a good one 😄
lighter = Feuerzeug = fire stuff ;-)
circle run together break - found in one of the exams my teacher corrected.
I can mention a few funny adjectives in Spanish (most of them only used in Colombia):
- Lambirico: someone who just gets in everyone's business without asking them.
- Babascaidas: It literally means saliva falling down, it describes a stupid person.
- Lamesuelas: Literally someone who licks soles. In English would be something like "butt-kisser"
- Visajoso: Someone who wants attention all the time or excessively shows off their stuff.
- Agüevado (also spelled ahuevado): Someone who's just too scared to do something.
- Getilargo: It literally means long face. It can be said to someone who looks sad or upset.
- Lengüilargo: Literally someone with a long tongue. Someone who cannot keep a secret or is too reckless.
- Chichipato: something of a very low quality, or someone who is very miserly (also you can say michicato).
Those are the ones I can think of, but there are many more.
Im südlichen Teil Deutschlands und in Österreich bedeutet "Fotze" jedoch auch Mund. (vgl. Mundharmonika = Fotzenhobel) Ich denke "hinterfotzig" kommt eher aus dieser Richtung und bezeichnet eben das Sprechen hinter dem Rücken einer Person.
Stimmt. de.wiktionary.org/wiki/hinterfotzig
Yasmine Steinbauer In Österreich wird es auch manchmal als "Ohrfeige" verwendet. :)
Oh mein Gott, Fotzenhobel?? Das wusste ich nicht, und ehrlich gesagt klingt das für mich nach nem asbach-uralten Teenagerwitz "HAHA, Fotzenhobel!!!"
In Bayern auch :)
Also wänn bai unns jämand foddse sagt, dann moindos au so
Wer hat noch zum ersten mal duckmäuserisch gehört? xD
Minorin 😂😂ich
Julia WASSERMANN ok da bin ich nicht der einzige :))
Seid ihr wohl zu jung... da ist euer Wortschatz noch nicht ganz so ausgeprägt
TravelEnthusiastDE Wie alt bist du denn?
TravelEnthusiastDE ich bin 19🙊
Selbst als Deutscher (bzw. Deutschsprecher) ist sowas echt lehrreich ^^ Einige der Adjektive waren für mich ehrlich gesagt sogar vollkommen neu, von anderen wusste ich die genaue Bedeutung nicht :D
Auf jeden Fall wieder ein super Video 😊
Even as a German (or a German speaker) this is all very informative ^^ Some of the adjectives were even completely new to me, while for some others I didn't know their exact meaning :D
Anyway, an awesome video again 😊
Why is EVERYONE freaking out about the pronunciation of one stupid word?
I would really love to hear most of you guys speak German without pronouncing anything wrong 🙄
Trixie teaches us, so we want to help her when we can. No antagonism ment, for most, I'm sure.
But she didn't ask for it, there is a difference :) I make mistakes on my German channels sometimes and there are always a bunch for people pointing out the same mistake. Although 1. I didn't ask for it and it's irrelevant and 2. one person already pointed it out, there is no need for another 20 to do that.
Of course she didn't ask for it. If she knew it wasn't right, she wouldn't have misspoke. Admittedly some of the corrections come off as a bit severe, and there are way too many of them, but those people undoubtedly mean well.
What I mean was, she haven't asked anyone to correct her at all. She is here to teach you German, not the other way around. Some mean well yes, but if it has been pointed out several times there is no need to post any more comments about it. Doesn't matter. I'm just saying I know how she might feel about a bunch of people pointing out the same mistake.
LaySong TV I'm a native English speaker and hell, she's better than me! Go Trixi!
Hahaha 😂😂😂😂 these are hilarious, one that i found funny when i learnt it was 'dummkopf' which means fool but literally translates to 'dumb head' 😂😂
Hi Trixie! This is one of your best! Some of the adjectives fit our former German expat office assistant at work. We really miss her. Not!! An exact fit for her: hoch-nasig,
gros-kotzig, klein-kariert, and especially kratz-burstig! Danke! :)
Hey Trixie! I really enjoyed your video on meanings of the German adjectives. I am studying German, since the nineteenth century Hunsrückisch dialect spoken here in southern Brazil and we learn in school does not look much like what is spoken there in Germany ... hahaha
I just discovered that I have spoken "adjective" wrong my whole life, but this is part of learning. Incidentally, "hoch-näsig" is the same as "nariz empinado" in Portuguese, we use from time to time.
Native German speakers normally don't think much about it, but it's a good idea to translate some of the adjectives, to realize HOW funny some of them are. If there is a part 2 to follow, I would suggest "hellseherisch" vs. "schwarzseherisch" (which is not the real counterpart).
I like "engstirnig" it is used to describe a narrow mindet person and the litteral translation would be "tight forheadish".
Rather "narrow forehaedish"
"Small-minded" heisst es auf Englisch.
SvenQ45 "kleingeistig" gibt es aber auch im Deutschen.
Chaosmacherin Ja, das kenne ich auch.
Hey, Trixi, your video today was great. I learned not only how to pronounce adjective correctly (used to do it the same way you did), but I also pronounced lunatic on the second syllable, not the first. This you got right.😆
Thank you.
And by the way, my favorite adjective still is “blümerant“.
We have a similar idea to "dog miserable" in the U.S. We say "sick as a dog" when we are really sick.
That made me think of another phrase used when someone is being surly.
"What is your problem, somebody kick your dog?"
Not really related, I know.
"Dog tired" is also used quite often.
In Norwegian, we have "hårreisende", which is our equivalent to "haarsträubend" with the same meaning and we also have "vanvittig" which has the same meaning as "wahnwitzig" and it almost sounds exactly the same and easy to recognize for me as a Norwegian. We have also borrowed "schadenfreude" from German which is the noun form of "schadenfroh" and it frequently pops up in our language when we are amused by someone else's misfortune. These were all great examples in your video and nice additions to my vocabulary being a learner of German :)
I was thinking the exact same things :-) Sometimes it is an advantage to know Norwegian, but I still struggle like **** to build the sentences correctly...
In Swedish we also have "hårresande" and "vanvettig" but schadenfroh is literally translated to "skadeglad" :)
We have lots of expressions in Scandinavian languages that are word-for-word the same as German, and I often wonder how much of it is actual loan translations (calques) from German and how much of it is common ancient germanic expressions that have simply been evolving along with the languages.
Yes, that's really difficult to know on the spot, especially since Scandinavia was so influenced by German in the 16-17th century.
Say It In Swedish In Sweden I guess we could have a rule of thumb that if the word was relevant to cities or trade in the 1300s-1500s but not in the Viking era and has a similar word in German, then it comes from German.
I like you, you are funny. I'm subscribing. By the way, the duck thing at the beginning had me dying.
Trixi I love your videos so much! Please never stop making them!
I just have to be "klugscheißerisch" *ggg* "hinterfotzig" definitely does not originate from the german slang word for the female genitalia BUT the bavarian and austrian slang word for "mouth" (fotzn); the fotznspangler thus is a dentist ... :-) greetings from Munich...
Ehm, klugscheißerisch 😀
Ausgeszeichnet! I really enjoy your videos. Auf English sagt man auch "sick as a dog" to express feeling bad.
Great video, really top-drawer! One thing, though, and I'm not complaining, it just struck me as funny how you pronounce "adjective." It may be different in the UK, but here in the US, we accent it on the first syllable. Thanks for everything that you do here!
I really love your videos! They always make laugh the way you describe things with your whole body! And I learn a lot about both languages
Thanks so much!!!
Fuck I love her sense of humour! The more I watch those videos I learn a fuck lot faster. If I ever go to Germany and have a chance to meet her, I'll invite her and Eric for a beer, I bet it would be a hard evening for the abdominals (from laughing so much). I do have the same kind of humour. Peoples sometimes don't get it but after a good thinking... 3 days later...
Haha, sounds great! :D
DontTrustTheRabbit Octoberfest would be great! If you see a dude who looks a bit like Sigmund Freud with a shirt with a Canadian flag who answer the name Patrick (I will recognise you for sure) someday.The odds that we stumble in a crowd are like one in 80.62 million. But eh! everything is possible. I you travel to Montreal Canada, the chances are 1:1.65 millions and we have very good artisan beers and awesome international food!
just LOVE your show. hope u do lots more in future....hugs
we have similar ideas to hoch-nösig as well. We say someone is "stuck up" for the same reason. They are sticking their nose high in the air at you.
Yep. That seems to be the most common. "Nose in the air", "high-nosed" and "high-minded" can also be found from time to time.
For the one about having your nose up, in English, we also say haughty (you can still kinda see hoch (de) / haut (fr) in there) or stuck-up (maybe referring to the nose. In my region, we also say in French "avoir le nez en l'air" (to have the nose up).
You simply have to be the best interactive teacher on TH-cam :)
Make a DVD and sell it you're doing great!
P.S. You simply have to be the cutest on here too! where are your flaws? :)
I have never heard schadenfroh before, but the noun schadenfreude has become part of the English language (probably because we are too nice to have a word of our own for such a bad thing).
I was just about to say, that word exists and is used in English - and, to be fair, almost none of our words are ours percentage-wise.
Thing is "Fotze" means "mouth" in south Germany and Austria. So I'd say "hinterfotzig" means "behind mouthed", like talking behind someones back. Actually Wikipedia says just that.
Hoch-näsig is better in the Danish Version. We say høj-røvet (High assed). The same for Kalt-Schäuzig, Kold i røven (cold in the ass). I spot a theme here.
As always many of the German words appear in Danish well. Schaden-froh, Skade-fro. Hundeelen/Hundsmiserabel, Hundeelendig. Wahn-witzig, vanvittig, Kratz-bürstig, Kradsbørstig
24jh42 yeah german and danish are kinda similiar in some ways
And in Swedish there isn't any fun expression for "Hochnäsig". We should adopt Højrøvet!
We also say Næsen I Sky (nose in the clouds), but(t) I think the other one is better suited for indicating your own personal opinion on the matter
oh right, we say "sätta näsan i vädret" for hochnäsig. I didn't think of that!
Hi Trixie!
In Swedish we say "skadeglad" = the same as schadenfroh.
We also call annoying know-it-all-people "besserwisser". :)
Also "fisförnäm" is a word to describe people like großkotzig did in German, and it literally means "fart-posh"!
Neben steinalt kann man auch sagen asbach(uralt) nach der beliebten Weinbrandmarke^^
what about "fuchsteufelswild" (maybe like "fox devil wild")? :)
I heard this from an Australian once when he was describing a situation while on safari in Africa. He was charged by a rhino and he described his fear as "my bunghole was twittering like a virgin's eyelashes". Just imagine the Aussie accent with this line. I couldn't stop laughing.
Hi Trixie, not relevant to the topic of the video, but the top you have on really suits you, it's such a nice colour.The video is also very entertaining and educational to watch.
Have you ever seen the 70s show "All In The Family"? The first time Archie Bunker meets Mike Stivic what he says in English in German translates to: "Sie sind ein dummkoph... Tot vom hals aufwärts!" I have been playing with google and learning some good stuff.
In italian we call a person who is ashamed of nothing (even when he says or does the worst things) "faccia di bronzo", that is "Brass face" because brass is metal-hard like the facial expression of the person who never feels the need to apologize...
In English a stuck-up person is said to have their nose in the air, so your German is pretty much the same. And the dog thing, we have the dog days, sick as a dog, dog tired. Evidently, even though dogs are happy we associate them with bad things. BTW, your videos are fun. Thanks for sharing.
I've never been "dog miserable" but I have been "dog tired".
How about: sich spinnefeind sein. This is a good one! :-)
Great video!
Noradne I think that this is more like a slang word
Could be. I looked it up on Google first and the Duden website popped up, but this doesn't say anything. Wiktionary does have an entry for it, too.
no - it is because some spiders are cannibals
I'm confused, I always thought it's ADjective, not adJECtive.
It is
What this person is trying to tell you, in not so easy or polite way, is that the stress falls on the first syllable, much like in the word, "apple", with the rhythm of the whole word being very similar to "objective".
Perhaps I will be called "neunmal-klug" now. Ha!
Sorry! :3 I'll remember that now!
I used to say adJECtive too, but a little research taught me better.
DontTrustTheRabbit i forgive you
I love your channel.. You help me with my German a lot! I would write this in German, but am afraid of embarrassing myself....
Hey Trixie, your English is great! your vids are entertaining and educational, as well. Your English vocabulary, pronunciation, grammatical phrases and such are actually better than some of the lame-brains who claim English is their muttersprache..!!
I am hunds-miserabel when I am sick as a dog.
When I am hunds-miserabel I wear a hang dog expression.
Someone in English can also be mousy, like a mouse. Means timid. Sometime the same or similar slang is found in both languages.
Mit dem Adjektiv "wahnwitzig" kann ich dir helfen:
Das Wort "Witz" hatte früher (auf jeden Fall bis ins 19. Jahrhundert) im Deutschen den selben Bedeutungsumfang wie das englische "wit", also Verstand, Geist, Sinn, Witz. Wenn man jemanden als "gewitzt" beschrieb, meinte man damit, dass er klug oder einfallsreich ist, ein "witziger Gedanke" war ein kluger oder geistreicher Einfall. "Wahnwitzig" bedeutet dementsprechend einfach verrückt oder irrsinnig. "Witz" und das davon abgeleitetet "witzig" hat heute allerdings im deutschen Sprachgebrauch diese Bedeutung verloren und bezeichnet nur noch die kurze lustige Erzählung.
Und das ganze ist jetzt ein gutes Beispiel für einen neunmalklugen Kommentar :)
Genauer gesagt bedeutete Witz den Verstand und Wahn die Leere, ahd. wanwizzi = ohne Verstand, unverständlich. Siehe Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache ^^
Hi Trixie. Danke fürs tolle Video!
Hi Felipe. Bitteschön! :)
Trixie is kind of funny and cute. Traumfrau
We have besserwisserisch and Schaden-froh too in Swedish. They're spelled a different way (it's spelled only besserwisser in Swedish) but literally means the same thing!
Well, besserwisser IS the noun, so actually we spell it exactly like in German. Schadenfroh got a literal translation though to "skadeglad" but you knew that ;)
Love, thanks for sharing/ teaching :)
Great vid! Your English is generally excellent, and I don't want to come across as a besserwisserisch or neuenmalklus, but the English word "adjective" is pronounced AD'juh-tiv! :-)
Trixi, one correction - we pronounce "adjective" with the accent on the first syllable - AD-ject-tive. Great video!
English has several that are simliar, Like the hair ruffling thing, at least state side we use feather ruffling. But that might be getting western slang mixed in with it, like dern tootin' when you agree with something.
Trixie, Do you sell T-Shirts with your cute Rabbit Logo ?
A strange adjective I heard was "frohmude" which was "happily tired." After running a ten-kilometer race, you may be tired, but you are also happy you did it. Interesting language.
Sounds funny, but seems to be more local slang.
I only know Frohesmutes (happy temper)... but I never heard of frohmüde but the german language is as good of creating new words like the english in take it from other languages :-)
Andreas Zimmermann
I also never heard (or read) "Frohesmutes" as an adjective before. Seems to be a special (local?) version of "frohen Mutes" (lit. good mood), which is an old term for happy or even "confident", not halfhearted.
It could be funny, if you made a video about some weird phrases in german. Such as "Große Klappe und nichts dahinter". Or "jemand hat den Kopf nur auf den Schultern, damit es nicht reinregnet."
As a German, he translations sound quite funny...we German have really funny adjectives
Hello! I'm a native English speaker (specifically Mid-Atlantic American), and we have a number of very similar words and phrases to these German adjectives you have presented (though they aren't always as funny as yours). My apologies if you already know the following or if it's more than you cared to know
Along the lines of "besserwisserich" and "neunmalklug," we have "know-it-all" and "wisenheimer." "Know-it-all" is pretty straight forward (a person acting as if they know all). "Wisenheimer" is weird and perhaps not so funny, though. It's "wise" plus "-enheimer" in an effort to mirror a German surname, like "Guggenheimer" or "Oppenheimer." The word dates to 1912, so I guess it's being made to look German is because of Germany's high reputation for academics coupled with the animosity many Americans felt towards German immigrants at the time. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it and people just liked the way it sounded. I don't really know.
While we don't have an adjective for it, we do have the expression "sick as a dog," which mirrors the German adjectives "hundeeland" and "hundsmiserabel." Like you, I never understood why dogs were associated with feeling ill.
We, too, use "cold" to convey a sense of callousness, but instead of calling such people "cold snouted"/"kaltschnäuzig," English has "cold hearted." I think German also has this word?
Similar to the German "haarsträuben," American English has "hair-raising," for outrageous, scary, or exciting events. While speaking of hair, American English will use the "hairy" to describe a situation that is uncomfortable or alarming.
Finally, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but American English speakers have actually adopted the German noun "schadenfreude" into our own language because we found it to be such a useful word.
just found your videos, Ive never een attracted to the German accent or language,. I am now ;)
Hallo Trixi!!! ich hab dein erstes Video gesehen und ich glaube dass sogar jetzt Fünf Jahre hatten vorbei, du bist so stark, hübsch und projektiert eine fantastische Personalität (Psychologiedienstgesicht). Sowieso hoffe dass 100,000 dreimal Subscribers müssen deiner Canal besuchen und zurückschreiben an. L.G.
I'd rather say, that people who are hochnäsig do not look down on others (then the nose would point down anyway), they look up and away from them because these other people are clearly not even worth to be looked at.
Addendum:
Great video. I didn't even think about how strange these words are when you translate them. They are totally normal in German. But now I would be interested in funny English adjectives. But my mind does not come up with any. Can you help me, Trixi? I feel so vacuous right now :P Sozusagen vakuumös (and no, not another word for you-know-what).
A high-nosed person is metaphorically setting themselves on a higher plane than others. Either phrase works because it describes the same mind-set.
Matthew VandenBerg I know what it means, I was just taking it literally. :-P Hey, Max Headroom! Nice avatar.
High nosish here in the Dakota's some say "Her feet must stink!" (Her stinky feet make her hold her nose so high!" or simply, "She always has her nose in the air!"
Spitzbübisch comes from Spitzbube which is an old word for rascal or rogue
DJDoena yepp. Du Spitzbube, ab in den Knast mit dir.^^
Sometimes, after a day's hard work, I'm 'dog tired.'
Trixi I have a question about dreams and writing knowing you like to write, Have you after writing a story or something had long vivid dreams. Recently I twice wrote letters to my sister just before going to bed and had long vivid dreams. If you don't recall such an experience I'd like you try an experiment. Write something before you go to sleep you only have to fill one page with thoughts you were engaged in and the next morning remember what you can about your dream if you had one and see if it was different from your normal dreams.
this could be an experiment for other rabbits as well.
Klasse Video! Bezieht sich "haarsträubend" nicht eher auf die Haare die mann auf den Armen (oder auch Beinen) hat, wie bei einer Gänsehaut?
OMG ich musste beim Nashorn so hart lachen als du die kommentare eingefügt hast xD. Aber irgendwo tut es mir auch leid ... stört es dich eigentlich, das viele leute nur über deine Brüste schreiben oder findest du das irgendwie lustig? Schönes video ^^
Liebe Trixie, ich würde dich gerne etwas zum Schreiben fragen. Und zwar wie beginnst du deine Storys? Also machst du dir erst eine Art Stoffsammlung und überlegst dir, wie die Story aufgebaut ist und über was sie gehen soll und machst Vorarbeit oder ist es eher so, dass du einfach drauf los schreibst? Oder fällt dir einfach so plötzlich, wenn du in deinem Bett sitzt oder auf dem Weg zur Arbeit bist irgend ein Charakter/eine Figur oder eine "Szene" ein...?
Kurz gesagt, wie fängst du eine Geschichte an?
Vielen Dank für die Antwort schon im Voraus (vielleicht auch als Videoform?).
Falls jemand anderes hier Erfahrungen im Schreiben hat, würde ich mich natürlich auch über Eure Beiträge freuen :).
Gruß Mo
Hi Mo,
normalerweise kommt mir die grundsätzliche Idee und die Message einer Geschichte irgendwann ganz plötzlich und spontan. Dann kommen immer mehr kleine Einfälle dazu, die ich in ein Notizbuch (oder notfalls auf Servietten, Klopapier oder meine Hand) schreibe. Wenn ich genug gesammelt habe, schreibe ich die größeren Ereignisse der Story auf ein Blatt Papier, schneide sie als kleine Zettelchen aus und ordne sie nebeneinander chronologisch an. Dann mache ich neue Zettel, die je für ein Kapitel stehen und klebe die Ereigniszettelchen auf. Damit steht das Grundgerüst und ich kann mich schon mal nicht mehr extrem vertüdeln. Die Kleinigkeiten dazwischen fallen mir dann spontan ein.
Am liebsten würde ich immer sofort drauflosschreiben und erlaube mir das manchmal auch, aber ich liiiiiiebe es, wenn in Büchern etwas, das am Anfang erwähnt wird, am Ende oder in der Mitte wieder aufgegriffen wird, wenn man merkt, dass die Geschichte rund ist und jeder Gedanke seinen Zweck hat, weil er früher oder später noch mal wichtig wird. Und das möchte ich in meiner Geschichte auch, der Leser merkt dadurch, dass der Autor sich in seiner eigenen Geschichte auskennt.
Wenn man Geschichten mal mit einem Haus vergleicht, plane ich also zuerst das Grundgerüst und baue erst, wenn der Plan fertig ist. Bei allem Weiteren (die Art der Wände, Türen, Fenster, Wandfarben und vor allem die komplette Inneneinrichtung) sind dann meiner Fantasie keine Grenzen gesetzt und ich lasse mich von meinem eigenen Kopf überraschen.
Ich hoffe, das hat dir geholfen und beantwortet deine Frage. :)
LG Trixi
Wie cool! Danke, danke! :) Das hilft mir sehr und den Vergleich mit dem Haus finde ich echt gut! Danke für die super schnelle und ausführliche Antwort!!
Ein interessantes Adjektiv ist 'merkwürdig', denn für jeden bedeutet das heutzutage 'seltsam'. Nimmt man es aber wörtlich, so beschreibt es etwas, das des Merkens würdig ist, also etwas Besonderes oder Wertvolles.
Nicht dass ich mich mit der Etymologie von "hinterfotzig"beschäftigt hätte, aber ich habe Zweifel an dieser Auslegung.
Wo ich herkomme, wird das Maul von Tieren oder auch der menschliche Mund manchmal abschätzig "Fotz" genannt (die Mundharmonika auch manchmal "Fotzhobel"), und wenn jemand eine Ohrfeige bekommt hat ihn jemand "gefotzt"(oder im Dialekt "o'gfotzt").
Not that i tried to find out the etymology of "hinterfotzig" but i have some doubts about the translation...
Where i come from the mouth of animals or people sometimes is referred to as "fotz" (not nice...) the mouthorgan is sometimes called "fotzhobel", and if somebody slaps someone in the face the later one gets "o'gfotzt".
Sorry, Trixie, but it's AD-jec-tive, not ad-JEC-tive. (Emphasis on first syllable.) I love the way Germanic languages form adjectives out of common native words. I wish English did that and didn't try to mix in so much French, Latin, and Greek.
Speaking of Germanic languages, when I lived in Sweden, I taught a class in the park to youth about American sports. When I told somebody about the class, he asked if my students were "vetgirig". That's a great adjective, and it literally means "know-greedy", or perhaps "eager to learn". I think the Germans would say "weissgierig".
In Portuguese we have "Nariz empinado" very similar to hoch-näsig!
In English, you can use the phrase "sick as a dog" to describe "hunds miserabel".
Achtung besserwisserischer Kommentar: "Wahn" ist übersetzt nicht "mania" sondern "delusion/delusional". Mania wäre wieder ein anderes Symptom aus der Psychiatriewelt ;) aber sonst wie immer ein gutes Video! (ich habs nur nicht so gerne wenn falsche Informationen über psychische Krankheiten verbreitet werden, davon gibt es schon zu viele)
Oldsmart and sharptongued, moneyhorny and therefore throatoffcuttish, miserypetery but sagalike and with a tendency to become unheld. And no, I'm not talking professionchinese, I'm just languagetalented!
Just to let you know - "Hinterfotzig" goes back to bavarian dialect. "Fotzen" means mouth. So "Hinterfotzig" means talking in the back of someone.
We call them stuck up snobs.
LMAO @ 7:16 xD
My husband always points at escalators and asks "do you know what the German word for escalator literally translates to???" I've heard this so many times, I don't know what the German word is.... I just know it means "rolling stairs"
We also say "rolling stairs" in Swedish. In German "Rolltreppe", in Swedish "rulltrappa".
shouldn't the translations of the adjectives end with -y instead of -ish?
Herr Nilson it's dialect if you're referring to the English adjectives
Herr Nilson I'd rather use -ed for some of them. But then again, we're not talking about real words here, so who cares?
Love your channel; love your adjectives.
I'm blind, and gives a speech synthesizer for text output. This, unfortunately, has led to some very awkward pronunciations on my part.
Any Errors are a result of voice dictation. My computer is screwed, so I'm using voice dictation via the iPhone.
Peac
Beautiful top you´re wearing, I´m wondering where you got it?
Nice video. Just a tip, the stress on the word "adjective" in English falls on the first syllable - it's AD-jec-tive not ad-JEC-tive.
Thank you! :)
In French, there is an expression that says "malade comme un chien", meaning as sick as a dog
Genial. Wenn man sich mal die englische Übersetzung anhört, dann fällt erst auf, wie bekloppt diese Adjektive eigentlich sind. Ich geh mal in die Ecke und lache zuende...
Bei einigen Wörtern hätte sich die Gelegenheit für Herkunftserklärungen als zusätzlicher Lerneffekt angeboten.
DontTrustTheRabbit
Curious how you'd pronounce something like "what did you say"? Watching your videos has had me thinking about all the automatic bastardization of the language we commit when speaking. Most (not all) Americans in casual conversation would pronounce "what did you" something like "wuhd-jyew". It's totally unrelated to this video, just curious, hah.
Platin-Stuhl stell ich mir ja seeeehr bequem vor :D
Off topic. What video equipment and editing software do you use?
how about fuchsteufelswild? Literally: Fox-Devils-wild Meaning: to be very upset/angry
Smartass = Klugscheißer ... passt am besten
I'm learning so much :D
"Hinterfotzig" stems from the old bavarian wort "Fotz'n" meaning mouth, and "hinterrücks", behind ones back. there is no obvious ethymological connection to the vulgar words for the vulva, Futt or Fotze, that trace back to ancient times.
A similar constructive is in the adjective phrase dead tired in English.
Hey guys what's up it's Scarce here.
fuchsteufelswild, hatte meine Grundschullehrerin damals immer gerne verwendet :D
On No 1 also "altklug" comes to mind.
...and by the characterization afterward...everyone at every social media platform, basically?
da hat aber jemand nen clown gefrühstückt heute ^^
this was a great video despite the adjective pronunciation
Wie wäre es mit "rotzevoll" als Adjektiv, oder die guten alten "Wurstfinger" als Substantiv? Die Erklärung würde ich auch gerne hören.