Check out *_15 GENIUS German words that are MISSING in English!_* ▸th-cam.com/video/6yHQlS50Quk/w-d-xo.html After reading through the comments, I'd like to say that YES, of course English is a Germanic language which is why there are a lot of similarities anyway and YES a lot of the words I mentioned are also Yiddish or Dutch words (both languages are related to German) and many of them have found their way into English through those two languages. Languages naturally develop over time and intertwine with other languages. Thank you guys so much for watching, commenting, and liking this video! :) I'm curious to read all of your comments on potentially different meanings of the words, Make sure to also check out my video on 20 ENGLISH WORDS GERMANS USE WRONG▸th-cam.com/video/xfeMGVCX-Gk/w-d-xo.html!
My great-great-grandfather, Christian Eggerman, immigrated to the United States in 1830 from Hannover. I have heard that the surname, Eggerman, is common in Germany but probably pronounced differently and probably even spelled differently. I don't know. Can you answer this question for me?
English is a Germanic language, so much closer to German and Dutch than Latin languages. A lot of words share roots with German words in fact. I always find it interesting how much I can understand when in Germany if I just focus on the sounds of the words.
English is a language that has found every other language in an alley, knocked them about the head, and rifled through their pockets for loose vocabulary and syntax. Which, honestly, has made it particularly adaptable in my opinion. There are roots going everywhere.
Oh, interesting, that's what most foreigners find very difficult, even the ones actually learning German. I saw a video once, where learners of several languages mostly agreed that German is the most difficult when it comes to switching from the written words to actually understanding people ...most Germans would be surprised about that because we usually think our language is the most accurate when it comes to adherring to the written word.
I am Dutch so I thought I would know what it means because Dutch and German are pretty close (to my opinion) but I have absolutely no idea what this word means😂
I think we have an equivalent with Idioms and Sarcastic ways of saying words. Like how you say "Sure Genius" in a sarcastic tone to mean the same instead of having a whole word for it. Kind of like other Tonal Languages whichchange the words meaning based on Tone, English utilizes it too.
Yesss in german y too but we learned like that who the o in who is the head of a person and ao wel learns who is for persons and where is like yes where hahaxD
For me it was "were" and "where" in my early Beginnings of learning English. "Where were you?", "Wo warst du?" in German, is one of those Examples, i struggled with at the Beginnings.
Oh- and there is also "become" and "get". 'Become' is 'werden' in german and 'get' 'bekommen'. Three years ago I asked my friend in the english lesson (We have to speak english in the english lesson at all times) 'if I could become her pencil because I forgot mine'.
Your command of both languages is fascinating. As a person from a polyglot family I knowjust exactly how hard it is to truly master an accent, idiomatic phrases etc... You are an extremely talented young lady.
@@spanishflea634before you criticize somebody for having the skill to use and command multiple languages you had best learn English. Polyglot simply means that use of several languages. Same with multilingual. A person who only uses two languages is bilingual. A person who has command of three languages is trilingual. Any native speaker of English ought to know that.
@@RingsLoreMaster my family all speak English, Spanish and French. My wife is a language teacher. I only speak English and Spanish. And my Spanish I learned as an adult for international work… always working on it over the past 25 yrs. My daughter additionally speaks German and Russian. We are so proud of her for having surpassed us all. She now works for the government. The fact that her last two languages are not even Romance languages is very impressive to me.
For me its funny, that f.e. in England a famous car repair company for glass is called "Autoglas" and their name in Germany is "Carglass". A german word in England and a english word in Germany.
The english language came from the germanic language. There are about 400 words that are common i believe. Its the pronunciation that is different. With a slight different way of spelling, and speaking, as well as sentence structure. Love the country, the people, the culture the language, and of course the beer and the food.
Richard Stangl Tja, bei uns in Tschechien sind diese Würstchen auch nur als Frankfurter bekannt, weil wir historisch ja eher mit dem österreichischen Deutsch verwurzelt sind (als mit dem aus Deutschland). :) Oder Meerrettich (DE) vs. Kren (AT, CZ), Powideln und Kolatschen...
@@E.L.Bernays mit einem kleinem detail, dass in Tschechien wie Frankfurter so Wiener sehr bekannt sind...Frankfurter seien oft bissl teuerer und bissl mehr würziger... 😉
My favourite German word is "doch". There is no English equivalent (that I can think of) .You can win complicated arguments just by saying "doch" after someone doubts what you said.^^
Your English is perfect! It's interesting how accents work. My mother was born in Worms, and came to the U.S when she was 8, so she learned to speak English without an accent. Her brother came with her, but is 4 yrs older than she is, and he retained a slight German accent. Her father, of course had a very thick German accent. And, by the way, "math" in kindergarten is called "arithmetic".
Felicia, I am a 68 year-old American man who was born in the southern USA and raised in the Midwest. I have no direct German ancestry but have heard and used the word "Gesundheit" my entire life every time someone sneezes. It is as American to me as apple pie.
@@marcxy0160 American apple pie with spices like nutmeg and cinnamon not used much in England are derived from Dutch settlers in America - whom English settlers used to mistakenly call "German."
@@greenangelos5587 funny and now grow up Sorry i cant hear this anymore, every time in all Videos with "Germany / Germans" I have to read bad WW2 jokes. The most of them are not historically correct and just stupid as fuck.
The term schadenfreude is interesting and we have it from German in Danish/Norwegian as well (skadefryd). However, we also have the expression "skadefro" (schadenfroh) as an adjective. As far as I understand, the meaning is about the same as gloating.
As a child, I was taught the German word for chives: schnittlauch, and never knew the English word until I was much older. I believe it is literally "cut leeks."
Yes, that's about right and if you think about it makes sense. Leeks are harvested roots attached. While "cut leeks" are, well, cut. They are named both "leeks" as they have slightly similar tastes and also belong to the same botanic family I believe.
You know, I never thought about it until now, but Albert's last name was OneStone... Oneston? Wonston? Winston? Was his English name actually Albert Winston? Conspiracy! 😂
As a child i had a knock off brand Kinderei, and it was manufactured abroad, so the backside of it was all in english, the little toy inside of the egg was also called "gift" and i didnt want to eat the egg because i thought ill get poisoned 😂
Also, "Fritz" = something is not working -- the TV is on the fritz "Mensch" = helpful loyal friend. A really good humane person. "Nosh" = something to eat, a snack. and, "schlep" = to carry or haul something by hand.
Hallo Felicia, I saw the reaction of this video and had to come and say how impressed I am about your English pronunciation. Not only that but you explained everything so good! Es war alles sehr interessant, vielen Dank!
A lot of these words are common in the Midwest especially in Ohio due to the number of Ohioans who have German Ancestry. Also most English speakers are not aware that English and German are linguistic cousins since they share a common root language. In fact Old English sounds more like German than English.
I suspected that was the case. I am more attuned to language than the average person, and have only a passing familiarity with "schadenfreude" and "schmutz". I have lived in several states in the western U.S., but not at all to the east of the Rocky Mountains.
There are lots of Brits who feel offended when you tell them English is a Germanic language with some 10.000 French words as a first or second choice. I have even met the expression - "only in the English language is it possible ..... ". This lady is nice but ought, actually, to know more about European languages, and how mixed and still close they are due to a similar historical and geografical background they have.
Here's a good example for Schadenfreude: If somebody has just overtaken you without paying attention for the speed limit and some moments later he/she gets clocked.
My grandfather was German so my mom adopted lots of phrases from him that I hear her say every once in a while. mostly terms of frustration, like schweinehund (idk how to spell it) which means pig-dog. There’s also a “schlux” which is kind of like “a dash” when referring to cooking something. I could be wrong about the meaning though, cause I didn’t grow up in the German culture. We may have accidentally changed the meaning of words.
@@LaOrajPantalonoj I mean "THE rock" not in the linguistic sense, but rather in the sense that he was the one and only, the original EINSTEIN - accept no imitations!!!
Scheint so, als wäre das hier nicht der Fall. Ich seh mal vielleicht ein deutschen Kommi hier und da, jedoch im Vergleich zu anderen englisch-deutschen Videos, ist das hier nichts lul
@@lordmalix3141 Als ich in Innsbruck war und gucken wollte ob es in einer Imbissbude Wiener gab, meinte der Typ sie haben nur Frankfurter und die kam sehr nah an eine Wiener
Also very confusing for me as a German. Usually, you spot an English talking German guy in about 1.5 seconds, as their accent is just kinda obvious. Also some mistakes we tend to make, as the constructs are similar, but rules are different. For example, we tend to create "if"-sentences containing a "would", like "If I would do X, it would be fine.". That's terribly wrong in English, but fine in German, because eventhough "would" translates to "würde", their respective usage is different.
Her accent definitely sounds like a native speaker's, but she uses a lot more rising tones in the middle of sentences than I'd hear with native American English speakers so it does sound a little bit odd to me, not something I really notice unless I try to pay close attention though
Its not just the pitch. Its the pacing of the way she speaks that gives it away. Not that it's a bad thing at all. What i mean by pacing is the way she would say a full sentence, I bet it would be hard to speak quickly or quicker. You see the same problem with folks who learn it from any language, and the pacing is also what throws off so many americans while learning another language. She speaks wonderful English, and I wish I was nearly that good when I speak Spanish!!!!
Schadenfreude was the first German word I ever learned in my high school German classes. The teacher walked into his desk and everyone laughed and so he taught us the German word for this!!! In England we do this a lot, but we don't have our own words for it, I mean why would we need this when there's a perfectly good German word we can use, it's a great word as well!!
Ja das habe schon mal gehört 🤣 I've heard that a few times and I was wondering. So you don't have your own word to describe schadenfreude. That's unfortunate. Maybe someone should come up with one. But no matter what, you can use "our" words too. 😆 German people use also english words and then they are saying, "es wurde eingedeutscht" (it had been germanized). We all know the word handy, right? But when german people say that we down mean the adjective. In Fact handy is ower mobile phone (smartphone). Not everyone knows about that. If you have any questions. You can ask her. She really good. 😊
@@dR3m1Nator I think it's great that we can share words in this way. In English it was taught to us as laughing at someone else's misfortune, which isn't quite as concise and pithy!!! Why invent your own words when you can just use a ready made one? English is a mix of a Germanic and Romance language so many influences from other languages in these two groups and beyond have found their way into our lexicon and long may it continue!!!
When you say "Danke Schon" you are actually saying "Thanks already". You should say "Danke Schön" which means "Thanks a lot". Those dots above the letter "o" are essential.
I am german.... and a long time ago when I visited the States I saw "Apfelkuchen" on a menu und tried to order it... but the waiter did not understand what I was saying. So I tried to imagine, how people in the U.S would probably pronounce it and tried "applekouken"? and it worked.
Try to order German toast and nobody will know. Say "french toast" and everyone knows. Because Germans bad. But then in the 2000s when France wouldn't help destroy Iraq they then started calling it "freedom toast" because France bad.
As a norwegian this is so funny, because some of the words and meanings have the same meaning in norwegian, but some has the english meaning and the other has the german meaning. All three languages are germanic languages though, so it make some sense. Great video
I'm original from North Germany ..... and we speak there neder german ..... that's not a dialect it has his own roots ...... Well ...and these roots and high german as well are from Norway ...... They went south and occupied the area of ( now) Germany , France and way more ..... The Angle and Saxomy as well as the Normans occupied England ...... the Vikings go even further ( see now Russia) they conquer Andalusien ,- Sicily ,- Iceland ,- Greenland ,- and went till Canada ...... so actually the "Homeland " will be Norway and Danmark ..... dont you think ?! 😊 In the US over 15 % have german ancestry ... and I was realy surprised ......
Many of the German words used in American English, came here via the Jewish community. Many of the older folks, especially, originally spoke "Yiddish" a Low German - Hebrew mash up. When they fled to the U.S., they spoke a type of English-Yiddish pidgin. As many of their children and grandchildren sought careers in the entertainment industry, these Yiddish (German) words worked their way into popular American English.
20 years ago - as south German - i came for 5 months to the netherlands and learned some Dutch. For me it was a mixture between German and English. But the Dutch language has more logic. (But there are some complete strange words you need to know to get a good idea of what is spoken in Dutch).
@@fredandersen9873 You make me "meschugge" .... now the german words come from the Jewish ...... there is the "Schlamassel" ..... is that true ore some "schmu " hhahahahaha
@@klauszinser In the northern part of Germany a lot of people can read and understand ( if they talk slowly ....) Dutch , Danmark , Norge ........ becaues it is one language family ...... And by the way ... my grandfather was Dutch ...,.
My personal favorite German word that I use frequently is "fingerspitzengefuehl." Literally finger tip feeling but used to describe an ability to quickly grasp something or someplace. For example: Bob's fingerspitzengefuehl allowed him to immediately see the problem.
@@suburbanburrito210 In the German language, compound nouns are written *in one* ! ... An often used example is: "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftkapitän" ... ;-)
I liked listening to your voice instead of watching the video. I read through comments instead of watching and just listened to you speak. While it is very obvious that German is your native language, I can also tell that you are very firm but pleasant in your nature, and very ordered, organized and centered. It was a gift that I had from a very young age. My mom's friends would visit her during the day before I started kindergarten, and when I was 3, I asked her, "Mom, why are most of your friends plastic people?" She asked me, "What do you mean?" I said, "They're fake. They're putting on that they're something that they're not. They're deceiving you" My mom always marveled at how I could possibly know that much about people at age 3, to read into people and see their true nature. It works best when I don't look at them but only listen to them. It served me well in life in the military in the USA, Belgium, Germany and England, and during my entire career in business and in law enforcement. The clinical world calls me an "Empath." The spiritual world calls me "Clairvoyant." The Christian world adopted me as a preaching minister because I could tap into the spiritual world and repeat things directly from the Spirit of God while in front of the people. This part, I loved most. Getting the "unction" from God as to what to say next, while preaching. It's a gift that all people have but a gift not many tap into. Practice it, and it becomes commonplace, to help others and even defend yourself against narcissistic people. There's a whole other world that we can't see, full of angels,full of demons, full of power and impressions,that the more you tap into it, the more you can use it in your life.
The phrase “Hand auf Herz” was used by old time writers. One of my favourite German words is “Verschlimmbesserung” - make something worse in an effort to make it better ! Hope that gets popular soon, it’s one of the “zeitgeist”
My time has come, the comment section words...right...name...? Learning German (very early in the process, and my app wouldn’t let me copy this comment to double check my guess!)
Einmal habe ich eine Deutsch Professorin von mir gefragt "Was bedeutet Schadenfreude?" Auf Englisch sagte sie mir "One mans DELIGHT over another Mans PLIGHT!"!
That’s close enough. It literally means “joy at someone’s pain”. There are some words that change because of political sensitivity. In English we say FEBA, Forward Edge of the Battle Area. In German the equivalent translates to “Forward edge of the Defensive Zone”. The other thing that’s very different is greetings. In the USA I’d say “Hi, I’m Peter”, in German “ Ich heißt Herr King“. Another thing is Frau (Mrs.) or Fräulein (Miss), can be used to denote marital status, respect or age.
@@peterking2651 In Germany it is no longer common to call a young or unmarried woman Fräulein. It was common until the late 70s, but a movement for more equality of men and women changed the language usage of the german society. Depending on the situation it can even be considered rude to call a woman Fräulein nowadays.
My mother had a German speaking grand mother living in her childhood home for several years. She picked up many words from her and I heard several of them as I was growing up. Gesundheit was one of the most common heard around the home, said after a person sneezes. I to this day use it instead of bless you. It just feels natural and comes out of my mouth when someone sneezes.
@@Daniel-qz3pk actually you're wrong on the meaning of Hillman. Hillmann is composed of a variation of the term "hild" which means "battle" (compare the skandinavian Hild or Hildr, a valkyrie name part as in Brunhild, Hildegard or Hildebrand from the Nibelungensaga) and "mann" as in "man" so Hillmann is quite the same as "Krieger" or "Warrior". Like the infamous madlad and conspiracy activist Attila Hildmann.
Kindergarten was started in America by a German lady in Watertown Wisconsin. It was originally the same concept as in Germany. Over the years it was slowly incorporated into the school system, curriculum was added as a 1st grade prep...
That is indeed so weird... I read a lot of english books and sometimes I would just stumble across a german word and be like woah what are you doing here?!
Its not that surprising. Many Germans migrated to the US, many Jewish people migrated to the US from Germany. There are still groups like the Amish that speak german in the US. Most European languages borrow words from each other.
Many Germans emigrated to the US, over the years. "German" is one of the most common answers when Americans start talking about their ancestry (for example, at least a quarter of my ancestry comes from Germany). It makes sense that so many German words became a part of American English, over the years.
Again spot on. I will go back to North Carolina next year after I retire as a teacher. My wife is German. She was born in France, of German parents. We have played with our languages for years and have learned a lot from each other. I came to Germany as a soldier and am ending a career as an English lecturer. I love your explanation of Schadenfruede!
My family is from both Austria and Germany, so I grew up hearing a mixture of english and german words all the time, never even knew most were german words till I was older and my friends had no Idea what my grandpa was saying!
Lived in Karlsruhe's Paul Revere Village between the summers of '78 and '81 as a dependent. Dad was a Lt. Col. then, and we lived in one of the duplexes. I too didn't learn much German then (it's difficult enough just to figure out which gender goes with each noun. GGiA, why in blazes do the German words for knife, fork and spoon all have to take different genders, for crying out loud?!). PRV seemed so isolated from the German surroundings, as if we were living on an island. A HUGE treat, though, was to go to a German restaurant (usually Rocco's) about once a month and eat Wienerschnitzel mit Pommes Frites, BY FAR the tastiest meal I've ever had in my 54 years of life. Also liked the cheap on-base prices. Could go watch a (somewhat) new movie at the PRV theater for just over a dollar.
I was in Kaiserslautern and also Babaenhausen, but was not an on post person. Spent too much time in the field to stay in garrison when we were back. Loved to go and explore the country. Would drive around and find old "castles" and visit. We were outside one and The Lady came out and asked what we were doing. I explained in my best Germ-acan, my surprise it was a private residence. She instead of turning us away, invited us to a tour of her home. It was built in or around 1540's. About the only thing in the USA from that time is Redwoods & artifacts. I just wish I knew my family which has a very English name over half comes from Darmstadt area and Germanic Belgium.
Nice video 😊 The words, “spiel,” “kitch,” and “schmutz” are also Yiddish words that are commonly used in everyday English. Yiddish came to the US many years ago by Eastern-European Jews and it is a derivative of German with elements of Hebrew. The list of Yiddish words woven into our everyday vocabulary is extensive!
You are right, and they are sooo may more jiddish words which are used in english and german language, like Chutzpah, Meshugga, Schlamazel, Dreck, Mensch....etc...
A lot of these words, including "kitch" and "schmutz", I have never seen nor heard before. I'm in Boston, had a German aunt (WWII bride) and half German cousins. What did my uncle always call her? I'm trying to remember. Something like "schutzy". I don't know.
Wart mal 2-3 Jahre... Schau dir mal Nowitzki an. Da gibt s einen Auftritt bei einer amerikanischen Sendung und er soll einen deutschen Satz sagen... der Satz hört sich vielleicht deutsch für jemanden an, der kein Deutsch kennt, aber das was Nowitzki sagt, macht absolut keinen Sinn. Das kommt bei ihr noch...
My mother’s grandparents were German speakers, so she knew and used a few phrases. When she would explain something to me, she would then say „Siehst du?“ to check if I understood. Until I started studying German and realized she was really saying “Do you see?” as a kid I always thought she was saying “see stu?”, a teasing version of “see stupid?”
I'm very old and grew up in the Over the Rhine area in Cincinnati just after the war. We used so many German words without realizing they were German. Your video brought back many many memories. Thank you.
Moving to Cincy she probably hits a lot more Germans than other places in the states. I moved from Dayton for a while to live in the south and said Gesunhdheit and received sideways looks. It might have been my accent thou! :)
My grandparents immigrated from Germany. I am impressed with your ability to speak English without any foreign accent. My grandfather immigrated in 1900 and died in 1970. He had a German accent until the day he died.
@R. Schowiada71 : very interesting that you hear her bavarian heritage when she talks english. I am Bavarian, but i can not hear in her english that she is from Bavaria! Are You American? But her German really does NOT sound like from Munic, more like from more northern parts of bavaria/ franconia
Fun Fact: Wienerwürstchen (the Sausage) is called "Wiener" everywhere (*edit: not everywhere but in many places on earth) BUT in Wien(Vienna) we call them Frankfurter (referring to the city of Frankfurt) :) This is because the butcher who invented this sausag learned his profession in Frankfurt - but invented it in Vienna as far as i know
Actually it's the other way around most countries call them Frankfurters or hot dogs only in Germany and sometimes in the US they are called Wiener. The part about the butcher is correct. He came from Frankfurt and invented them in Vienna.
Years ago when the restaurant "Der Wienerschnitzel" first opened in our state, my friend's mother, who was from Switzerland, saw workers putting up the sign as she was driving by. She immediately pulled over to inform the workers that their sign was wrong. "It should say DAS Wienerschnitzel!" she tried to tell them. The workers just though it was some crazy woman and eventually ignored her. She was terribly bothered and became even more so when she found it that the restaurant was selling hot dogs, not actual Wienerschnitzel.
@@poppyssnoopy5835 Well, the company finally removed the "Der" from "Der Wienerschnitzel", but that was years later. The workers didn't speak German, and they had no idea. The company is still in business with hundreds of locations, mostly in the western US.
"Schadenfreude" can be felt by anyone on earth. But we Germans are at least honest enough to acknowledge it! So yes, it says something about our culture. We are no hypocrites!
I learned it in English with the implication that it's not just anyone's misfortune but a friend's misfortune. We outwardly offer sympathy but inside we take a certain pleasure...probably based in jealousy or the desire to laugh at our friends. How many sitcoms have friends laugh at each other's misfortune? Seems a normal part of friendship
It does not suprise me that a word, descibing a certain feeling,does not exist in the English language. In England we are not big on feelings,let alone talking about them.
A few of those I’ve never even heard of. Someone: *Says a ridiculously long word or name* Me: Gesundheit. That smile is the most contagious thing in this star system.
Warner Brothers Looney Tunes was all over "Gesundheit" almost 70 years ago..... th-cam.com/video/jvm45cWLRZM/w-d-xo.html From their short "Early to Bet," released in 1951
English, a Germanic language but with some 10.000 thousand French word came to give two words, stool and chair, a slightly different definition. At times both words survived at times one won over the other.
@@hurri7720 And French was similarly influenced by Frankish, a Germanic language/dialect. Many of those words later came back in some form or another through French into Germanic languages. Take for example the word abandon.
My college German professor told us that after the Norman conquest of England, the higher class spoke French and lower class people spoke a Anglo-Saxon which was pretty close to German. As a consequence, better quality items have names which are of French origin such as chair and lower quality tend to have German names such as stool. He gave several other examples, most of which I have long forgotten.
That is absolutely correct. The Anglo- Normans spoke old French and the Anglo-Saxons spoke a germanic language very similar to the Frisian dialect. The Anglo-Normans were the ruling class in England during the middle ages and they continued speaking French for centuries after the conquest in 1066.
Russian language has adopted a lot of French words (some were altered, some not), because Russian elites liked to be connected to European elites (marriages etc) and French was considered a noble language in 18-19th centuries. Since 1940s, Russian has adopted a certain amount of German words and expressions as result of German invasion and its reflection in culture. I think like EVERY Russian aged above 30-40 knows such words as "Hande hoch!", "Polizei", "Ausweiss", "Arbeit", "Schwein", "schnell", and of course, most widely used "kaputt" and "Blitzkrieg". In Russian military terminology, there are some words adopted from German, due to historical connections with the German military and hiring German officers for Russian army. "Sturm", "Schwerpunkt", "Platz" (training ground), "marsch"... In Russian marine terminology, most adoptions are from Dutch, I believe, due to activities of Peter the Great.
@@L4evsk Interesting. And, of course, Catherine the Great was German. There are also several words in German which are very similar to the Italian. For example Kaserne vs caserma for barracks. Perhaps, some of the Latin root words in English really came from German.
It is called wienerbrød in Danish because Austrian bakers from Vienna brought their pastry traditions with them when settling in Copenhagen. Sweden probably picked the word up from Danish (just my guess)
@@christiank1251 still is a little different i think. when you are in the conflicting confrontation of "ja" "nein" "doch" "nein, it is "yes" "no" "yes" "no"
I think the only way to approximate "Doch" in English is to use "yes", but with a lot of attitude and vocal inflection. Picture a teenage girl talking back to her parents ...
Kitsch is also used in Spanish, but it's more related to vintage stuff, something who isn't trendy anymore but it's still good and you have nostalgia for it. "I went to a kitsch party".
When I was a small boy, I was "helping" my grandfather one snowy day as he was using a team of horses to pull logs out of the timber. He was first generation American. I never heard him swear in English. That day as some mishaps occurred, I knew he was disgusted and he talked to the horses very sternly in words I had never heard before. The horses understood and everything worked better after that. A couple days later, something at home didn't go the way I expected and I became disgusted and used some of Grandpa's special words. My mother was shocked, grabbed me by the left ear, and put me on the basement steps with a bar of lye soap in my mouth "until all the bad words were washed out." My first use of German words was not a success!
As a substitute teacher years ago the class had accomplished everything they were supposed to on the teacher's schedule. We still had time. I began to explain to the students that they spoke Americanized English because their English had many words that were foreign. They were puzzled. So on the board, I started to write German words, some French (restaurant, garage) & Italian (spaghetti, macaroni, adagio in music, salami, chicken, eggplant or veal parm (parmigiana) which I also told them is made with mozzarella, not parmigiana cheese). Spanish (loads of words). Latin. The lesson was going with enthusiasm -- even the wise-guys in the back of the room were engaged. Two teachers from other classes came by for other reasons & stayed to watch. I added words from other cultures & the class was amazed they actually spoke words from other countries. It was such a satisfying day. I didn't mean to score points, just fill time. The teacher wrote me a nice note saying the class always requests me when she is out. Sometimes teaching achieves its goal if it's a little entertaining.
My father is bilingual (English & Spanish) and he studied Latin in school (Catholic) when he was young. My mother is English-speaking and she studied French in school. Growing up, my parents would occasionally say a word or phrase in other languages. My younger siblings took part in spelling bees (spelling contests for those unfamiliar) and word origins (Etymology) is something which influences how various words are spelt/spelled in English. I always had an inkling of an idea that some words in English were taken from other languages. In a college class our Professor confirmed that and even broke down chronologically the formation of the English language and during what historical time periods words were appropriated from other languages. I think this was the same class in which we were to have read Beowulf. I'm bilingual (English & Spanish, like my dad). Since I know both British & American, does that count as three (with Spanish)? I also know enough of several other languages to get myself into trouble. I want to learn more. "More input!" -Johnny Five
People in Rheinland-Pfalz: "Ein stein bier, bitte." Me, an American: "Einstein must be pretty big here, they have a beer named after him and a lot of people order it."
As a teen, I learned that the origin of "bless you" when someone sneezed was the belief that sneezing forced the spirit out of body. You were blessing them so that no evil spiritual forces could interfere before their spirit returned. When I thought about it, "good health" seemed to better represent my wishes, so ever since then I've said "gesundheit" (which I'd heard, but wasn't as common).
I grew up in northern New Jersey, where there is a big Yiddish influence, so we said things like meschigge, lox, stibitz and such all the time, without really realising the germanic root of the words. Speaking of Yiddish, have you experienced any other German dialects in the US, like Texas German or Pennsylvania Dutch/Amish? There are more of them still around than you might think, and they're quite fascinating!
Fun part: most of those german languages spoken in the US are older than the standard german. Younger germans often don't learn to speak or understand those languages or dialects anymore. I am from the Northwest of Germany and grew up with the regional frisian dialect. That dialect is part of the culture brought to the US by Mennonite / Amish people...
@@marcop4136 Yes, that's what makes them so fascinating; they predate Standard German, and in some ways they're like time capsules of dialects that are sadly dying out. Yet it's also interesting to see how they are being influenced by English. I hope these heritage languages can be preserved for many generations to come.
I'm an American living in Germany and before watching your video, the first 2 words that came to mind were gesundheit and kindergarten lol. My family always used gesundheit when someone sneezed and I thought it was pretty funny when I found out it's actually German and what it means ;)
I´m a German living in Germany, but i went to Europe on my motorbike, like Portugal, Korsika,l Italy...Pretty cool Countries we have here... I like that more then America, except "Easy Rider"...;-)
@@kosmique Besides the fact, that "Autobahn" is a pretty cool band, (Look it up), on german Autobahns you can still, on most parts, drive as fast as you want... 260KmH ? No Problem... THAT is like Americans, loving their Weapons...NO German Politician survives, if he says "130 KMH Max".
but it is in seroius discussion serveral times to limit speed on the autobahn, while there is no discussion to forbid weapons in the us. its part of the us consitution, while speed on streets is not part of the germann consitution ... so the comparison is a bit weird, but i know what you wanted to say, sorry my english is awful
Its almost jewish jiddisch German dialects that means an Kind of circumstation that Things are mixed and Not sorted like an childrenroom after Playing with toys and all the toys laying everwhere.
Great video! My favorite german word that you hear occasionally here in the US is "Katzenjammer". A few more words that you hear quite often are "ersatz" (which is a bad replacement in English) and "ur-" as in "the original something" 😊
Most of these words only exist in America because Germans used to be the second largest ethnic group in the U.S. (possibly the largest). We also have Oktoberfest all over the U.S. German was very common in the U.S. until WW1 when it was almost eradicated because of anti-German sentiment. It is still present with over 1 million speakers in the U.S. with thousands of Native Standard German and Plautdietsch speakers, many living in the Deep South and West. Plautdietsch is an old German language spoken only by the Amish and Mennonites in the U.S. They mostly live in Pennsylvania, but they are scattered across the U.S.
Let's not forget Texan German. Emigrants from Germany settled in the Texas Hill Country in the 1840s. Up until fairly recently, German was as common as English in towns such as Fredericksburg, Boerne, and New Braunfels. Fun fact: the town of Fredericksburg has a street named Hauptstrasse.
As a german, I actually wonder where it comes from. I only see it on "check out these funny german words"-lists. My guess would be that it's quite modern and local.
@@drsnova7313 modern? Not really? Local? Yes. Backpfeife is a slap in the face. But in different german areas you have different words for it. Handschelle, Ohrfeige, Watsche, Maulschelle and so on. So Backpfeifengesicht is just the dumb face someone makes and it's literally a invitation to slap him. Often in reference if he/she says something dumb or acts dumb/annoying. For Example: "Er hat ein richtiges Backpfeifengesicht!" - "He really has a Backpfeifengesicht!"
@Pustekuchen I know this word too. As I know it's usage it's more about the look of someone. Not in a nice way. Like "Schau dir mal die Hackfresse an! - Look at this ugly face" English translation isn't perfect I have to admit.
It may be helpful to do as Geli does. When she uses a German loan word, she does so with the American English pronunciation. The authentic German pronunciation would not register in the ears of Americans who don't understand German. They may even be unaware that the word they use so commonly is even German in origin. Gruß aus Nebraska, USA.
As a categorized American, I categorically laughed at how labeled human beings are these days. Maybe 34,000 years from now, when all of us have cross procreated and there aren’t individual races, there willn’t be such a concern.
@@koningbolo4700 a kind of "stop Word"? In a meaning of, a word you use to let a conversation end? The only way i know to use "at all" would be for the answer to a question like.. "What you are doing? 'Nothing at all" ... :)
@@ThatSux A stopword would be a word closing of a sentence... like young people use the word "like" on the end of a sentence. Überhaupt would be used in a sentence like this: "Het is überhaupt maar de vraag of er een corona vaccin beschikbaar komt dit jaar." Translated: "It is questionable if at all there will be a corona vaccine available this year." OR: "Heb je überhaupt wel geld bij je?" "Do you have money woth you at all?" OR: "Weet je überhaupt wel wat je gisterenavond in je dronken bui uitgespookt hebt?" "Do you have any idea as to what you did last night in your drunk range?" It is often also a word which desolves into the words of the sentence and becomes part of the context... especially when translated...
Haha, I knew about Angst because it's my last name! I also knew about the German meaning because my family emigrated from Germany several generations back. The name suits our family as well; looking back through the family tree you can see lots of anxiety disorders and such.
Interesting about that topic is that the contemporary german use which was explained in the video was not the use of it around a century ago. At that time the american variant was actually the one used in germany. I cite Heidegger "Angst ist immer Existenzangst." Angst is always existential angst. The german word that was used for the english word "fear" was "Furcht". It still exists but "Angst" is used for both existential angst and fear, which dumped down the german language a bit, since the difference was lost. I guess that the american leanword was adopted in a time where "Angst" and "Furcht" still had different meanings.
As a matter of fact , in Hamburg it is called frikadelle . When I saw Burger King at Kieler Straße in Hamburg I laught out loud , I couldn`t imagine Americans to sell hamburgers in Hamburg . So don´t do like me to ask for hamburgers in Hamburg .
@@gigirigips completely rubbish! A Frikadelle and a Hamburger are two different things. If you want, you could call the pattie between the bun-halfs a very flat and underspiced Frikadelle. And of course you can order Hamburgers in Hamburg.
@@Waechter_im_All I did asked a hamburger for a hamburger in Hamburg and I created confusion . He and another guy didn`t understand what I`m asking for , I had to show them a picture and they say it is called Frikadelle . They are from Hamburg and I believe them . I know that Frikadelle means meat loaf and not the other ingredients , I know that Chili con Carne , contains more ingredients not only chili and meat , it is just the title , the name of the food .
@@gigirigips So then maybe you'd been talking to people from outer space. I ve been to Hamburg several times and I know you can get Hamburgers almost everywhere right around the corner, even cooked and served by native citizens of Hamburg. There's absolutely nothing special to it.
On a trip to Stockholm from Aachen, my wife & I shared a sleeper with four others. I had a slight cold & sneezed. Everyone spontaneously said, “Gesundheit”. We had a Swede, a Finn and two Nederlanders but all asked my wife why she used it. We couldn’t remember what else we’d use
1st sneeze: Gesundheit 2nd sneeze: Bless you. 3rd sneeze: See a doctor. As taught to me by my Father, who as taught me, much to my Mother's chagrin, how to blow milk bubbles and shoot the wrappers off straws.
Doppelganger has a more specific connotation in English than just lookalike, because it is often used to evoke a sense of unease or fear because the doppelganger is unnatural. It's a term you see used in science fiction and horror for "evil twins", ghosts, or aliens mimicking humans, that sort of thing.
I was looking for this comment. Right on the money. Also it's more of a horror story thing, where I grew up. The doppelganger was a shadowy look alike that if it caught you looking at it would grab you and eat you. My grandma legit rustled all my jimmies with the story when I was a kid. Clean up until I joined the Navy when I ran into some people who pointed out some inconsistencies in her story. it isn't so creepy anymore
It's the same in German as well. It always has a kind of eery connotation. You would rather say "she could be your Doppelgänger" and not "she is your Doppelgänger" if that makes sense.
not everywhere. I've never heard of doppelganger having that connotation. in my experience, doppelganger is used because it goes deeper than lookalike. two people that look similar are lookalikes, two people that look the same are doppelgangers.
I was always under the impression at least in English that the word Doppelganger was more than look alike. It expresses more than just being a twin. As with some other words the definition has changed over the years.
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After reading through the comments, I'd like to say that YES, of course English is a Germanic language which is why there are a lot of similarities anyway and YES a lot of the words I mentioned are also Yiddish or Dutch words (both languages are related to German) and many of them have found their way into English through those two languages. Languages naturally develop over time and intertwine with other languages.
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I really enjoyed the video. I'm pretty sure "spiel" came to American English through Yiddish. Yiddish and German do share a lot of vocabulary.
When an American goes to Germany and orders a pepperoni pizza though! hahaha
My great-great-grandfather, Christian Eggerman, immigrated to the United States in 1830 from Hannover. I have heard that the surname, Eggerman, is common in Germany but probably pronounced differently and probably even spelled differently. I don't know. Can you answer this question for me?
@@davidlyonwilson I actually thought schmutz was Yiddish, too.
"Weiner" for "Penis" is what parents would use with their young children. Ex. Don't pull your weiner out in school.
Americans are like: Wait, that is german?!?
Germans are like: Wait, they use this in America?!?
Truth be told: FUN FACT! The Caucasian population of the USA is at least 25 per cent German.
My thoughts as a german person 😂
More like as a German "wait this word exists?"
Maurice I‘m german too😂
Joir Haha Moin 😂
"No matter how kind you teach your children to be, German children are kinder."
Dan Wiebe Kinder chocolate 🍫 😉
@HenryDavidT it's just that children means Kinder... He doesn't really mean it
@HenryDavidT kinder means children in German...
@HenryDavidT Dude you´re not in school no need to write an essay hahaha
He who would pun would pick a pocket,,,
I am german. When I would hear someone saying "It goes kaput", I would think he can not speak english, because it sounds so wrong. 😂
Oh yes it does.
The first time I heard the word "kaput" I was so confused because "kaput" ("U" is pronounced like "O" in word thOse) in Serbian means "coat" xD
@Dum 123 Ja, aber im Englischen mit einem "t". 😂😂
Yeah I would too 100%😂😂😂
*hear
English is a Germanic language, so much closer to German and Dutch than Latin languages. A lot of words share roots with German words in fact. I always find it interesting how much I can understand when in Germany if I just focus on the sounds of the words.
Germanic language with plenty of French and Norse thrown in as well of course
@@allbies Oh yeah, I love how much of a mutt modern English is.
English is a language that has found every other language in an alley, knocked them about the head, and rifled through their pockets for loose vocabulary and syntax.
Which, honestly, has made it particularly adaptable in my opinion. There are roots going everywhere.
Old English
Oh, interesting, that's what most foreigners find very difficult, even the ones actually learning German.
I saw a video once, where learners of several languages mostly agreed that German is the most difficult when it comes to switching from the written words to actually understanding people ...most Germans would be surprised about that because we usually think our language is the most accurate when it comes to adherring to the written word.
My grandma used to call my dad an arschloch. According to him it means good boy in French. ;)
😮😂
Daimn hahahahaha
I can’t tell if you‘re serious or not but arschloch means asshole
@@benedictbrettner9652 is a true story. But the meaning was well-known and a sarcastic response as a result.
lol
Americans should discover the concept of the word „Blitzmerker“. That could help a lot.
Isn't "No shit, Sherlock" something like that?
Or "Genius" (obviously sarcastic)
I prefer the term "Blitzgneißer".
I am Dutch so I thought I would know what it means because Dutch and German are pretty close (to my opinion) but I have absolutely no idea what this word means😂
I think we have an equivalent with Idioms and Sarcastic ways of saying words. Like how you say "Sure Genius" in a sarcastic tone to mean the same instead of having a whole word for it. Kind of like other Tonal Languages whichchange the words meaning based on Tone, English utilizes it too.
I was so confused with "wer" and "wo" in German because of "who" and "where" when I started learning German.
same but i was learning Englisch and constently asked "who my pencil was"
@@maximhoppe5094 English*
Yesss in german y too but we learned like that who the o in who is the head of a person and ao wel learns who is for persons and where is like yes where hahaxD
For me it was "were" and "where" in my early Beginnings of learning English. "Where were you?", "Wo warst du?" in German, is one of those Examples, i struggled with at the Beginnings.
Oh- and there is also "become" and "get".
'Become' is 'werden' in german and 'get' 'bekommen'.
Three years ago I asked my friend in the english lesson (We have to speak english in the english lesson at all times) 'if I could become her pencil because I forgot mine'.
Your command of both languages is fascinating. As a person from a polyglot family I knowjust exactly how hard it is to truly master an accent, idiomatic phrases etc... You are an extremely talented young lady.
I thought the same thing about her. She's very smart.
user-VW, which languages does your family speak?
@@spanishflea634before you criticize somebody for having the skill to use and command multiple languages you had best learn English. Polyglot simply means that use of several languages. Same with multilingual. A person who only uses two languages is bilingual. A person who has command of three languages is trilingual. Any native speaker of English ought to know that.
@@RingsLoreMaster Correct. Polyglot refers to multilingual...more than two.
@@RingsLoreMaster my family all speak English, Spanish and French. My wife is a language teacher. I only speak English and Spanish. And my Spanish I learned as an adult for international work… always working on it over the past 25 yrs. My daughter additionally speaks German and Russian. We are so proud of her for having surpassed us all. She now works for the government. The fact that her last two languages are not even Romance languages is very impressive to me.
For me its funny, that f.e. in England a famous car repair company for glass is called "Autoglas" and their name in Germany is "Carglass". A german word in England and a english word in Germany.
Carglass repariert, Carglass tauscht aus 😂😂
Their slogan in their ads. Means: Carglass repairs, Carglass changes (your windscreen)
I think they use the same jingle in their ads also
@@dennismehr35 their English ad is "Autoglas repair, Autoglas replace" so they even use the same slogan. Even the jingle is the same
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Jetzt war ich neugierig :D
Same in French "Carglass répare, Carglass remplace"
Oha, selbst wir Deutschen können hier was lernen :D
Ja, auf jeden Fall xD
Lass mal so tun als wäre das ne wichtige Nachricht damit die amis nachgoogeln und verwirrt sind
Nur kann ich zu wenig Englisch das ich nichts verstehe 🤔
Ja klar
@@mircomoerders100 hä lol ja aber wie
Wer von den Deutschen hatte das auch unter „recommend for you“ ?
Luna GrangerMalfoy
Ich
kinda me
i'm not german tho, just live there lmao
Jo ich auch
Ja ich auch😊
Österreich, vielleicht kennt TH-cam den Unterschied nicht ;-)
The english language came from the germanic language. There are about 400 words that are common i believe. Its the pronunciation that is different. With a slight different way of spelling, and speaking, as well as sentence structure. Love the country, the people, the culture the language, and of course the beer and the food.
I think there are much more them than 400. A few thousands.
Food in Germany means the end-things off Your Legs you'll need to standby,
sometimes they are smelling (....)
Sorry YT is not on time, there are ca. 15 seconds more while i wrote
and there was a second comment sightable from another one.
I DON't BE AMUZED !
Yes and it also owes a fair amount to the Romance Languages too. English is really an amalgam of more than one type of language.
No, never THAT much. The English language has way more influence from Latin and Greek.
Fun fact: In Austria we call the Wienerwürstchen "Frankfurter" 😁
Richard Stangl Tja, bei uns in Tschechien sind diese Würstchen auch nur als Frankfurter bekannt, weil wir historisch ja eher mit dem österreichischen Deutsch verwurzelt sind (als mit dem aus Deutschland). :)
Oder Meerrettich (DE) vs. Kren (AT, CZ), Powideln und Kolatschen...
Und in Frankfurt gibt es zwischen "Wiener" und "Frankfurter" einen Unterschied, wie ich mich letztens belehren lassen musste....
@@E.L.Bernays mit einem kleinem detail, dass in Tschechien wie Frankfurter so Wiener sehr bekannt sind...Frankfurter seien oft bissl teuerer und bissl mehr würziger... 😉
We call it Viennas in South Africa
BESCHTE
My favourite German word is "doch". There is no English equivalent (that I can think of) .You can win complicated arguments just by saying "doch" after someone doubts what you said.^^
Yes, very useful, especially if you are very Rechthaberisch.
My sister: nein [eng. no]
Me: doch
Sister: nein
Me: doch
...
"nein"
"doch"
"ohh"
Wie jede Diskussion in Deutschland gewonnen werden kann😂
My favorite word to win an argument in German is :Quatsch
@@Basement-Science I AM NOT "RECHTHABERISCH" !!! .....my wife:"doch!" :(
Don't confuse gift in english and german. Total different meaning.
“Fake friends“
@@yuyu-ff1wj not really
Milk
@@dr.liamboss1596 Actually yes
Gift in English is a little present and gift in German is poison
Ha! I thought the same.
Your English is perfect! It's interesting how accents work. My mother was born in Worms, and came to the U.S when she was 8, so she learned to speak English without an accent. Her brother came with her, but is 4 yrs older than she is, and he retained a slight German accent. Her father, of course had a very thick German accent.
And, by the way, "math" in kindergarten is called "arithmetic".
I’m guessing you meant ‘Wales?’
Worms is a city in Germany.
Felicia, I am a 68 year-old American man who was born in the southern USA and raised in the Midwest. I have no direct German ancestry but have heard and used the word "Gesundheit" my entire life every time someone sneezes. It is as American to me as apple pie.
I think apple pie originated in Germany as well.
dbergerac pretty sure it’s originally from the UK but I could be wrong on this one ✌🏼
Never even heard of it before now.
@@marcxy0160 American apple pie with spices like nutmeg and cinnamon not used much in England are derived from Dutch settlers in America - whom English settlers used to mistakenly call "German."
that mean bless you in english
Her English is amazing but I love listening to her in German (even if I can't understand a single word). Absolutely beautiful!
But you do understand Doppelgänger and Bratwurst and all that 😝
American ain't English
Her German is Bayern, vegates ,y'all
@@hakimcameldriver wie gehts / “how are you?” But more like How are you going?
She is such a cute and appealing woman and yes ,absolutely beautiful;
She: mentions blitzkrieg
Me being Polish: oh no...
Poor Polish friend :c Screw that war. Poland did nothing wrong.
Love from Hungary
The "Blitzkrieg" only use in France *no hate just saying
Greetings from a really friendly German :D
German marching sounds gets more intense
What do you mean they did nothing wrong. They were in the way...
Greetings from munich
@@greenangelos5587 funny and now grow up
Sorry i cant hear this anymore, every time in all Videos with "Germany / Germans" I have to read bad WW2 jokes. The most of them are not historically correct and just stupid as fuck.
The term schadenfreude is interesting and we have it from German in Danish/Norwegian as well (skadefryd). However, we also have the expression "skadefro" (schadenfroh) as an adjective. As far as I understand, the meaning is about the same as gloating.
As a child, I was taught the German word for chives: schnittlauch, and never knew the English word until I was much older. I believe it is literally "cut leeks."
Yes, that's about right and if you think about it makes sense. Leeks are harvested roots attached. While "cut leeks" are, well, cut. They are named both "leeks" as they have slightly similar tastes and also belong to the same botanic family I believe.
Schnittlauch 😂😂😂👍
I have always been told and refer to schnittlauch as chives
6:34
Einstein:"Ein Bier bitte"
Barkeeper:"Ein Stein?"
Einstein(stolz):"Ja höchst persönlich"
Barkeeper: 🤔
LOL
That's too funny and kinda underrated
German: "Two Martinis, pease!"
Barkeeper: "Dry?"
German: "Nein, zwei."
You know, I never thought about it until now, but Albert's last name was OneStone... Oneston? Wonston? Winston? Was his English name actually Albert Winston? Conspiracy! 😂
When Jews had to take surnames in the 18th and 19th century they tried to take ones that had pleasant connotations like Greenberg - Greenmountain.
everytime i hear the english word gift, i think they try to poison someone
Everytime someone told me "You get a gift" I was like: "what,? why? thats unhealthy!"
Yes, you'll never imagine what I thought when I first came to England and saw a gift shop :-)
@Lady Edify Gift = Poison
As a child i had a knock off brand Kinderei, and it was manufactured abroad, so the backside of it was all in english, the little toy inside of the egg was also called "gift" and i didnt want to eat the egg because i thought ill get poisoned 😂
It‘s literally the same word as Gabe, something which was given/gegeben.
Also, "Fritz" = something is not working -- the TV is on the fritz
"Mensch" = helpful loyal friend. A really good humane person.
"Nosh" = something to eat, a snack.
and, "schlep" = to carry or haul something by hand.
Those are primarily Yiddish which was a German/Hebrew syncretism
Einstein:”Ich bin Einstein”
Rock:”Nein Ich bin Ein stein”
Albert One Liter?
And President Kennedy was a doughnut?
LMAO
Lol
Geiler witz
Bier in RLP: "Nein, ICH bin ein Stein!"
Stein: .......
You have to know that "Stuhl" in German has one more very special meaning ...
In England it can also mean a lump of faeces so there'snodifference there either.
@@colinp2238 That's what it mean in German also
@@kaeufer Yes that is why I said to you that there is no difference.
Haha Ehrenmann
Poop 💩
2:56 is the actual beginning of the video. You are welcome!
Thank you 👍
saw it too late but thx
You seriously can’t wait less than three minutes? 😂 what has happened to people’s patience?!
Hallo Felicia, I saw the reaction of this video and had to come and say how impressed I am about your English pronunciation. Not only that but you explained everything so good! Es war alles sehr interessant, vielen Dank!
! disclaimer: video accutally starts at 2:50
Absoloute hero
OK boomer
Thanks Bro 👍
You saved us all.
I saw it too late :/ Thank you anyway xD
A lot of these words are common in the Midwest especially in Ohio due to the number of Ohioans who have German Ancestry. Also most English speakers are not aware that English and German are linguistic cousins since they share a common root language. In fact Old English sounds more like German than English.
I suspected that was the case. I am more attuned to language than the average person, and have only a passing familiarity with "schadenfreude" and "schmutz". I have lived in several states in the western U.S., but not at all to the east of the Rocky Mountains.
Common in Texas for the same reason.
Frisians and West Saxons created Old English by migrating to Anglia.
Precisely. Early inhabitants of Britain were the Anglo-Saxons.
There are lots of Brits who feel offended when you tell them English is a Germanic language with some 10.000 French words as a first or second choice.
I have even met the expression - "only in the English language is it possible ..... ".
This lady is nice but ought, actually, to know more about European languages, and how mixed and still close they are due to a similar historical and geografical background they have.
Here's a good example for Schadenfreude: If somebody has just overtaken you without paying attention for the speed limit and some moments later he/she gets clocked.
Yup, that captures the meaning pretty well.
Alternatively, just take any "instant karma" video found on youtube.
Do they get caught by the Karma police?
@@chuckkottke Radiohead? 😉
@@gregourmet Of course! 🎯
Interesting. I'm surprised that Feli said this is used a lot because I don't recall having ever heard this word in English! The other 19 words, yes.
My grandfather was German so my mom adopted lots of phrases from him that I hear her say every once in a while. mostly terms of frustration, like schweinehund (idk how to spell it) which means pig-dog. There’s also a “schlux” which is kind of like “a dash” when referring to cooking something. I could be wrong about the meaning though, cause I didn’t grow up in the German culture. We may have accidentally changed the meaning of words.
If Albert Einstein ordered a liter of beer, you would say “Ein Stein für Einstein”!
dah
More like THE rock, man!
Gut
@@JosePineda-cy6om more like "A rock". The rock =~ der Stein, man! ;)
@@LaOrajPantalonoj I mean "THE rock" not in the linguistic sense, but rather in the sense that he was the one and only, the original EINSTEIN - accept no imitations!!!
Germans: *Sees "German" in title*
Germans: Das hier übernehmen wir!
Samurai 8 juup hast recht
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Scheint so, als wäre das hier nicht der Fall. Ich seh mal vielleicht ein deutschen Kommi hier und da, jedoch im Vergleich zu anderen englisch-deutschen Videos, ist das hier nichts lul
Hippedy hoppedy, this is now german property
HAHAHAH ja
Funfact: Wiener Würstchen heißen in Österreich Frankfurter ;)
und heißt bei euch Frankfurter auch Penis, was es bei uns ja aaaaaaaabsolut tut... xD
In Deutschland sind Frankfurter kleine Bratwürstchen 😊
@@lordmalix3141 Als ich in Innsbruck war und gucken wollte ob es in einer Imbissbude Wiener gab, meinte der Typ sie haben nur Frankfurter und die kam sehr nah an eine Wiener
Ich bin ein Berliner,
@@Kath-Erina Das wären Nürnberger. Frankfurter sind die dicken Bockwürste, während die Wiener die schlanken Würste sind
Felicia, we just love your videos!
Please have a Merry Christmas!!!
Your English is so good that I'm impressed by your German.
Also very confusing for me as a German.
Usually, you spot an English talking German guy in about 1.5 seconds, as their accent is just kinda obvious.
Also some mistakes we tend to make, as the constructs are similar, but rules are different.
For example, we tend to create "if"-sentences containing a "would", like "If I would do X, it would be fine.".
That's terribly wrong in English, but fine in German, because eventhough "would" translates to "würde", their respective usage is different.
Her accent definitely sounds like a native speaker's, but she uses a lot more rising tones in the middle of sentences than I'd hear with native American English speakers so it does sound a little bit odd to me, not something I really notice unless I try to pay close attention though
German's can easy learn perfekt englisch. I often get your englich is realy good but it's just my pronunciation
Its not just the pitch. Its the pacing of the way she speaks that gives it away. Not that it's a bad thing at all. What i mean by pacing is the way she would say a full sentence, I bet it would be hard to speak quickly or quicker. You see the same problem with folks who learn it from any language, and the pacing is also what throws off so many americans while learning another language. She speaks wonderful English, and I wish I was nearly that good when I speak Spanish!!!!
Tryce ecyrt All German men sound like Jörg Sprave. Change my mind.
ich WUSSTE das "Kindergarten" dabei sein wird. ich WUSSTE es xD
Und Doppelgänger
Aber ich wundere mich, dass ‚Wolkenkratzer‘ nicht dabei war, oder ‚Rucksack‘ 🤔
Wolkenkratzer wird im Englischen verwendet? oh boi.
*Brain translating to english* Uhhhh huh, i understood most of that.
I missed Waldsterben.
Schadenfreude was the first German word I ever learned in my high school German classes. The teacher walked into his desk and everyone laughed and so he taught us the German word for this!!! In England we do this a lot, but we don't have our own words for it, I mean why would we need this when there's a perfectly good German word we can use, it's a great word as well!!
Schadenfreue XD
Benutzen wir nicht oft, aber ist nices wort
So wait, you already experienced Schadenfreude before you had a word for it? What would George Orwell say about that?!
A bit late but I’m pretty sure we do it’s called being a sadist or being sadistic
Ja das habe schon mal gehört 🤣
I've heard that a few times and I was wondering. So you don't have your own word to describe schadenfreude. That's unfortunate. Maybe someone should come up with one. But no matter what, you can use "our" words too. 😆 German people use also english words and then they are saying, "es wurde eingedeutscht" (it had been germanized).
We all know the word handy, right? But when german people say that we down mean the adjective. In Fact handy is ower mobile phone (smartphone). Not everyone knows about that.
If you have any questions. You can ask her. She really good. 😊
@@dR3m1Nator I think it's great that we can share words in this way. In English it was taught to us as laughing at someone else's misfortune, which isn't quite as concise and pithy!!! Why invent your own words when you can just use a ready made one? English is a mix of a Germanic and Romance language so many influences from other languages in these two groups and beyond have found their way into our lexicon and long may it continue!!!
I am of German descent and heard it all my life growing up. Love your channel. Danke Schon Felicia.
When you say "Danke Schon" you are actually saying "Thanks already". You should say "Danke Schön" which means "Thanks a lot". Those dots above the letter "o" are essential.
@@Vinterfrid I know but my keyboard has no umlaut 🤗
I am german.... and a long time ago when I visited the States I saw "Apfelkuchen" on a menu und tried to order it... but the waiter did not understand what I was saying. So I tried to imagine, how people in the U.S would probably pronounce it and tried "applekouken"? and it worked.
The american way of saying "Apfelkuchen" sounds like "eplekuken" to me, which means "apple cock"...
Haha I can imagine this!
Try to order German toast and nobody will know. Say "french toast" and everyone knows. Because Germans bad. But then in the 2000s when France wouldn't help destroy Iraq they then started calling it "freedom toast" because France bad.
@@blueunicornhere "French Toast" is in Germany called "Arme Ritter", which means "Poor Knights".
In my neighborhood the CH was often spoken as a hard English K and sometimes as a German ch
As a norwegian this is so funny, because some of the words and meanings have the same meaning in norwegian, but some has the english meaning and the other has the german meaning. All three languages are germanic languages though, so it make some sense. Great video
I'm original from North Germany ..... and we speak there neder german ..... that's not a dialect
it has his own roots ......
Well ...and these roots and high german as well are from Norway ......
They went south and occupied the area of ( now) Germany , France and way more .....
The Angle and Saxomy as well as the Normans occupied England ...... the Vikings go even further ( see now Russia) they conquer Andalusien ,- Sicily ,- Iceland ,- Greenland ,- and went till Canada ...... so actually the "Homeland " will be Norway and Danmark ..... dont you think ?! 😊
In the US over 15 % have german ancestry ... and I was realy surprised ......
Many of the German words used in American English, came here via the Jewish community. Many of the older folks, especially, originally spoke "Yiddish" a Low German - Hebrew mash up. When they fled to the U.S., they spoke a type of English-Yiddish pidgin. As many of their children and grandchildren sought careers in the entertainment industry, these Yiddish (German) words worked their way into popular American English.
20 years ago - as south German - i came for 5 months to the netherlands and learned some Dutch. For me it was a mixture between German and English. But the Dutch language has more logic. (But there are some complete strange words you need to know to get a good idea of what is spoken in Dutch).
@@fredandersen9873 You make me "meschugge" .... now the german words come from the Jewish ...... there is the "Schlamassel" ..... is that true ore some "schmu " hhahahahaha
@@klauszinser In the northern part of Germany a lot of people can read and understand ( if they talk slowly ....) Dutch , Danmark , Norge ........
becaues it is one language family ......
And by the way ... my grandfather was Dutch ...,.
My personal favorite German word that I use frequently is "fingerspitzengefuehl." Literally finger tip feeling but used to describe an ability to quickly grasp something or someplace. For example: Bob's fingerspitzengefuehl allowed him to immediately see the problem.
it looks so weird because we Germans write it like that “Fingerspitzengefühl” and the sentence is in english but one word is a german word 😂😂
Are you guys trolling, litteraly looks like you just put a word and a bunch of letters together
@@suburbanburrito210
In the German language, compound nouns are written *in one* ! ...
An often used example is: "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftkapitän" ... ;-)
uhm, actually the meaning of 'fingerspitzengefühl' is closer related to handling something delicate with great care.
@@jukori yes, i would not use it that often for the example above.
I liked listening to your voice instead of watching the video. I read through comments instead of watching and just listened to you speak. While it is very obvious that German is your native language, I can also tell that you are very firm but pleasant in your nature, and very ordered, organized and centered.
It was a gift that I had from a very young age. My mom's friends would visit her during the day before I started kindergarten, and when I was 3, I asked her, "Mom, why are most of your friends plastic people?" She asked me, "What do you mean?" I said, "They're fake. They're putting on that they're something that they're not. They're deceiving you"
My mom always marveled at how I could possibly know that much about people at age 3, to read into people and see their true nature. It works best when I don't look at them but only listen to them.
It served me well in life in the military in the USA, Belgium, Germany and England, and during my entire career in business and in law enforcement. The clinical world calls me an "Empath." The spiritual world calls me "Clairvoyant."
The Christian world adopted me as a preaching minister because I could tap into the spiritual world and repeat things directly from the Spirit of God while in front of the people. This part, I loved most. Getting the "unction" from God as to what to say next, while preaching.
It's a gift that all people have but a gift not many tap into. Practice it, and it becomes commonplace, to help others and even defend yourself against narcissistic people.
There's a whole other world that we can't see, full of angels,full of demons, full of power and impressions,that the more you tap into it, the more you can use it in your life.
God bless you!
The phrase “Hand auf Herz” was used by old time writers.
One of my favourite German words is “Verschlimmbesserung” - make something worse in an effort to make it better ! Hope that gets popular soon, it’s one of the “zeitgeist”
Verschlimmbesserung: Sounds like a political term.
@@williammay2332 You can use it in all parts of life. You want to fix something but make it worse.
The phrase is actually "Hand auf das Herz" or "Hand aufs Herz" (Sorry, I just want to help, but you are right. It is a beautiful phrase)
We tend to use an idiom for this concept in English: "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".
@@ruralsquirrel5158 We only need one word for this;-)
Everyone can create a new word. Some become mainstream.
Feli: "Ein Stein Bier bitte!"
Albert: "Das kann man aber auch netter bestellen."
Junge legit wenn die witze so flach sind das sie einfach wieder maximal witzig sind
@@HeinrichDerGrosse1298 naja
der witz war schon ausgelutscht diggi
@@_Abgehoben aber doch nicht wirklich schlecht
@@deancinar4384 Geschmackssache
Every german under the age of 84:
Meine zeit ist gekommen; der Kommentarbereich wurde erfolgreich eingenommen.
that rhymes
Die Kommentar Sektion ist jetzt Eigentum der BRD
Digga was ist das HHAHAAHAH
Haha jaa
My time has come, the comment section words...right...name...? Learning German (very early in the process, and my app wouldn’t let me copy this comment to double check my guess!)
Gratulieren sie !
Thanks having lived a year in Munich I continue to enjoy learning more German.
Einmal habe ich eine Deutsch Professorin von mir gefragt "Was bedeutet Schadenfreude?" Auf Englisch sagte sie mir "One mans DELIGHT over another Mans PLIGHT!"!
@@jFig88 where did he say that?
@@jFig88 You do know, that in English "man" can be used as the generic word for "human/person", right?
@@jFig88 Im sorry but i cant find sexism here. Would you enlighten me?
That’s close enough. It literally means “joy at someone’s pain”.
There are some words that change because of political sensitivity. In English we say FEBA, Forward Edge of the Battle Area. In German the equivalent translates to “Forward edge of the Defensive Zone”.
The other thing that’s very different is greetings. In the USA I’d say “Hi, I’m Peter”, in German “ Ich heißt Herr King“. Another thing is Frau (Mrs.) or Fräulein (Miss), can be used to denote marital status, respect or age.
@@peterking2651 In Germany it is no longer common to call a young or unmarried woman Fräulein. It was common until the late 70s, but a movement for more equality of men and women changed the language usage of the german society. Depending on the situation it can even be considered rude to call a woman Fräulein nowadays.
My mother had a German speaking grand mother living in her childhood home for several years. She picked up many words from her and I heard several of them as I was growing up. Gesundheit was one of the most common heard around the home, said after a person sneezes. I to this day use it instead of bless you. It just feels natural and comes out of my mouth when someone sneezes.
Your name, hillman, is of German descendant. Hillmann would mean "man of the hill" in German and is a pretty common name.
@@Daniel-qz3pk yes, all this is true. However the grandmother was on my mom’s side. Her particular name was Ebert. This is also German and common.
Gesundheit.
@@Daniel-qz3pk actually you're wrong on the meaning of Hillman.
Hillmann is composed of a variation of the term "hild" which means "battle" (compare the skandinavian Hild or Hildr, a valkyrie name part as in Brunhild, Hildegard or Hildebrand from the Nibelungensaga) and "mann" as in "man" so Hillmann is quite the same as "Krieger" or "Warrior".
Like the infamous madlad and conspiracy activist Attila Hildmann.
Just heard, that about 80 Million Americans think, they got Ancestors in Germany...True or not, WE love beer ;-)
Kindergarten was started in America by a German lady in Watertown Wisconsin. It was originally the same concept as in Germany. Over the years it was slowly incorporated into the school system, curriculum was added as a 1st grade prep...
You are so delightful Feli. Learning linguistics while I'm entertained? This can't be happening.😀
That is indeed so weird... I read a lot of english books and sometimes I would just stumble across a german word and be like woah what are you doing here?!
English and German are both Germanic languages, so not surprising.
Lol yeah it's so confusing.
Its not that surprising. Many Germans migrated to the US, many Jewish people migrated to the US from Germany. There are still groups like the Amish that speak german in the US. Most European languages borrow words from each other.
Same here.
As an American living in Germany right now, I love this channel so much. It’s such a great learning tool and delivered by such a lovely person
Prima 🥰🥰👍👍
You're welcome, Sir Galahad.
Many Germans emigrated to the US, over the years. "German" is one of the most common answers when Americans start talking about their ancestry (for example, at least a quarter of my ancestry comes from Germany). It makes sense that so many German words became a part of American English, over the years.
Yep, there are over 40,000,000 Americans who have German ancestry.
@@mrcydonia indeed. some people live in so small circles.
@@mrcydonia second largest white ancestry in America
Me too. 1/4 German.
When I lived in Wisconsin they had radio stations that spoke German.
hello, has been a while since I watched your channel.
I am pleased that your following has grown so much, cudos.
Dieser Moment, wenn man das als deutscher anschaut, und sich denkt:"ehh, da ist ja nichtmal ein Akzent" 😂
Sie ist ja auch deutsch:)
@@nataliepolz7403 Ich glaube sie meinte das sie kein deutschen Akzent in englischen hat
@@cakeiam2839 Hat sie aber. Aber ist ja nichts schlimmes.
doch schon
@@cakeiam2839 Ich denke, gemeint ist, dass die deutschen Wörter von Amerikanern nahezu akzentfrei korrekt ausgesprochen werden.
Again spot on. I will go back to North Carolina next year after I retire as a teacher. My wife is German. She was born in France, of German parents. We have played with our languages for years and have learned a lot from each other. I came to Germany as a soldier and am ending a career as an English lecturer. I love your explanation of Schadenfruede!
you love the explanation but the spelling... not so much
Also wunderbar. Wonderful. In Covington there is a Bar called Wunderbar. Which is a neat play on words. Thanks for the fun video.
there are many Rathskeller bars in the US.
Asbury park has a Wunderbar 😂
Wow, yeah. That play on words is deeeeep
In Germany there are actually many bars named "Wunderbar" or different German words ending with "bar" as well...also because of the play on words :D
Even on Sicily in Taormina is a Restaurnant named "Wunderbar"☺
My family is from both Austria and Germany, so I grew up hearing a mixture of english and german words all the time, never even knew most were german words till I was older and my friends had no Idea what my grandpa was saying!
I was stationed 2 years in Karlsruhe, I learned very little German language. I love your channel because i am finally learning German.
Lived in Karlsruhe's Paul Revere Village between the summers of '78 and '81 as a dependent. Dad was a Lt. Col. then, and we lived in one of the duplexes. I too didn't learn much German then (it's difficult enough just to figure out which gender goes with each noun. GGiA, why in blazes do the German words for knife, fork and spoon all have to take different genders, for crying out loud?!). PRV seemed so isolated from the German surroundings, as if we were living on an island. A HUGE treat, though, was to go to a German restaurant (usually Rocco's) about once a month and eat Wienerschnitzel mit Pommes Frites, BY FAR the tastiest meal I've ever had in my 54 years of life. Also liked the cheap on-base prices. Could go watch a (somewhat) new movie at the PRV theater for just over a dollar.
Willkommen auf der wahren seite kameradin 😂
I was in Kaiserslautern and also Babaenhausen, but was not an on post person. Spent too much time in the field to stay in garrison when we were back. Loved to go and explore the country. Would drive around and find old "castles" and visit. We were outside one and The Lady came out and asked what we were doing. I explained in my best Germ-acan, my surprise it was a private residence. She instead of turning us away, invited us to a tour of her home. It was built in or around 1540's. About the only thing in the USA from that time is Redwoods & artifacts. I just wish I knew my family which has a very English name over half comes from Darmstadt area and Germanic Belgium.
Nice video 😊 The words, “spiel,” “kitch,” and “schmutz” are also Yiddish words that are commonly used in everyday English. Yiddish came to the US many years ago by Eastern-European Jews and it is a derivative of German with elements of Hebrew. The list of Yiddish words woven into our everyday vocabulary is extensive!
You are right, and they are sooo may more jiddish words which are used in english and german language, like Chutzpah, Meshugga, Schlamazel, Dreck, Mensch....etc...
And schlep!
yada yada yada.
We’ll, everyday New York Jews in Brooklyn English.
A lot of these words, including "kitch" and "schmutz", I have never seen nor heard before. I'm in Boston, had a German aunt (WWII bride) and half German cousins. What did my uncle always call her? I'm trying to remember. Something like "schutzy". I don't know.
Es ist beeindruckend wie schnell du ohne die geringsten Probleme zwischen den Sprachen switchen kannst. 😂 Respekt
True😲
Genau. Ich mixe sie so oft einfach ausversehen...
Nagut, sie zeigt die Outtakes nicht. 😁
Wart mal 2-3 Jahre...
Schau dir mal Nowitzki an. Da gibt s einen Auftritt bei einer amerikanischen Sendung und er soll einen deutschen Satz sagen... der Satz hört sich vielleicht deutsch für jemanden an, der kein Deutsch kennt, aber das was Nowitzki sagt, macht absolut keinen Sinn.
Das kommt bei ihr noch...
Agreed, she's amazing. And I'm just happy I understood you payed her a compliment.
My mother’s grandparents were German speakers, so she knew and used a few phrases. When she would explain something to me, she would then say „Siehst du?“ to check if I understood. Until I started studying German and realized she was really saying “Do you see?” as a kid I always thought she was saying “see stu?”, a teasing version of “see stupid?”
I'm very old and grew up in the Over the Rhine area in Cincinnati just after the war. We used so many German words without realizing they were German. Your video brought back many many memories. Thank you.
Moving to Cincy she probably hits a lot more Germans than other places in the states. I moved from Dayton for a while to live in the south and said Gesunhdheit and received sideways looks. It might have been my accent thou! :)
My grandparents immigrated from Germany. I am impressed with your ability to speak English without any foreign accent. My grandfather immigrated in 1900 and died in 1970. He had a German accent until the day he died.
@R. Schowiada71 : very interesting that you hear her bavarian heritage when she talks english. I am Bavarian, but i can not hear in her english that she is from Bavaria! Are You American? But her German really does NOT sound like from Munic, more like from more northern parts of bavaria/ franconia
@@gehtdasjemandwasan8849 True. No dialect in german words. No accent in english except I feel she's slightly exaggerating some consonants.
She has an American accent.
@@TesterAnimal1 Yes she does and many don't hear it. It's very unfortunate her accent is Americanised . Fruchtbar. ! Kaugummi englisch.
@@gehtdasjemandwasan8849 The younger you start learning a language the easier is to drop the accent.
Fun Fact: Wienerwürstchen (the Sausage) is called "Wiener" everywhere (*edit: not everywhere but in many places on earth) BUT in Wien(Vienna) we call them Frankfurter (referring to the city of Frankfurt) :)
This is because the butcher who invented this sausag learned his profession in Frankfurt - but invented it in Vienna as far as i know
Actually it's the other way around most countries call them Frankfurters or hot dogs only in Germany and sometimes in the US they are called Wiener. The part about the butcher is correct. He came from Frankfurt and invented them in Vienna.
@@hildegunstvonmythenmetz6619 really? Thats good to hear ;) when i tell people where i am from they always think of sausages or schnitzel 🙈
@@nathaliemader8873 🇦🇹
No, there are not called Wiener everywhere else. I live in Oberschwaben and we call them Saitenwurst or "a Soita"
@@hildegunstvonmythenmetz6619 *Austrian Problems* 🤣🍷🌭
Years ago when the restaurant "Der Wienerschnitzel" first opened in our state, my friend's mother, who was from Switzerland, saw workers putting up the sign as she was driving by. She immediately pulled over to inform the workers that their sign was wrong. "It should say DAS Wienerschnitzel!" she tried to tell them. The workers just though it was some crazy woman and eventually ignored her. She was terribly bothered and became even more so when she found it that the restaurant was selling hot dogs, not actual Wienerschnitzel.
Leifnelson6244, that's horrible! Alls she was trying to do was a spelling correction. Did they ever correct it? Hot dogs.... what a joke 😡👎
@@poppyssnoopy5835 Well, the company finally removed the "Der" from "Der Wienerschnitzel", but that was years later. The workers didn't speak German, and they had no idea. The company is still in business with hundreds of locations, mostly in the western US.
"Schadenfreude" can be felt by anyone on earth.
But we Germans are at least honest enough to acknowledge it!
So yes, it says something about our culture.
We are no hypocrites!
I learned it in English with the implication that it's not just anyone's misfortune but a friend's misfortune. We outwardly offer sympathy but inside we take a certain pleasure...probably based in jealousy or the desire to laugh at our friends. How many sitcoms have friends laugh at each other's misfortune? Seems a normal part of friendship
"Schadenfreude" the joy of a football team I dislike suffering the misfortune of relegation.
The Dutch have "leedvermaak", same thing.
It does not suprise me that a word, descibing a certain feeling,does not exist in the English language.
In England we are not big on feelings,let alone talking about them.
It's not that English doesn't have the word. "Glee" describes the sentiment exactly. It's just that it can mean more innocent joy as well.
A few of those I’ve never even heard of.
Someone: *Says a ridiculously long word or name*
Me: Gesundheit.
That smile is the most contagious thing in this star system.
Lol same :D
Warner Brothers Looney Tunes was all over "Gesundheit" almost 70 years ago.....
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From their short "Early to Bet," released in 1951
One thing I would like to add is that stool/Stuhl also has the same medical meaning in both English and German. E.g. stool sample / Stuhlprobe.
English, a Germanic language but with some 10.000 thousand French word came to give two words, stool and chair, a slightly different definition. At times both words survived at times one won over the other.
@@hurri7720 And French was similarly influenced by Frankish, a Germanic language/dialect. Many of those words later came back in some form or another through French into Germanic languages. Take for example the word abandon.
I was wondering if she was going to mention that medical meaning as many do in the U.S.
I guess we needed to know that. Now no one can say we don't know Stuhl.
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great job Feli, thank you for the info❤👍see you next time
My college German professor told us that after the Norman conquest of England, the higher class spoke French and lower class people spoke a Anglo-Saxon which was pretty close to German. As a consequence, better quality items have names which are of French origin such as chair and lower quality tend to have German names such as stool. He gave several other examples, most of which I have long forgotten.
That is absolutely correct. The Anglo- Normans spoke old French and the Anglo-Saxons spoke a germanic language very similar to the Frisian dialect. The Anglo-Normans were the ruling class in England during the middle ages and they continued speaking French for centuries after the conquest in 1066.
thanks for that information, very interesting 👍
In food you see it a lot. Beef - beof
Russian language has adopted a lot of French words (some were altered, some not), because Russian elites liked to be connected to European elites (marriages etc) and French was considered a noble language in 18-19th centuries. Since 1940s, Russian has adopted a certain amount of German words and expressions as result of German invasion and its reflection in culture. I think like EVERY Russian aged above 30-40 knows such words as "Hande hoch!", "Polizei", "Ausweiss", "Arbeit", "Schwein", "schnell", and of course, most widely used "kaputt" and "Blitzkrieg".
In Russian military terminology, there are some words adopted from German, due to historical connections with the German military and hiring German officers for Russian army. "Sturm", "Schwerpunkt", "Platz" (training ground), "marsch"...
In Russian marine terminology, most adoptions are from Dutch, I believe, due to activities of Peter the Great.
@@L4evsk Interesting. And, of course, Catherine the Great was German.
There are also several words in German which are very similar to the Italian. For example Kaserne vs caserma for barracks. Perhaps, some of the Latin root words in English really came from German.
In Dänemark: wienerbrød (Wienerbrot)
Im deutschen Sprachraum: Kopenhagenergebäck
😂😂😂
and called "danish" in the u.s. if i'm not mistaken.
Wiener Wuerste i are called "Frankfurter" in Austria. : ]
In Swedish it´s also called Wienerbröd!
It is called wienerbrød in Danish because Austrian bakers from Vienna brought their pastry traditions with them when settling in Copenhagen.
Sweden probably picked the word up from Danish (just my guess)
English has sadly no equivalent to „Doch! „ so I d still use that.
When you want to say "doch" in english, you have to use "yes".
Wouldn't that be "still!", as in "regardless of what you say, it *still* is like I say"?
@@christiank1251 still is a little different i think. when you are in the conflicting confrontation of "ja" "nein" "doch" "nein, it is "yes" "no" "yes" "no"
@@gsittly ok thanks, this helps.
I think the only way to approximate "Doch" in English is to use "yes", but with a lot of attitude and vocal inflection. Picture a teenage girl talking back to her parents ...
Kitsch is also used in Spanish, but it's more related to vintage stuff, something who isn't trendy anymore but it's still good and you have nostalgia for it. "I went to a kitsch party".
When I was a small boy, I was "helping" my grandfather one snowy day as he was using a team of horses to pull logs out of the timber. He was first generation American. I never heard him swear in English. That day as some mishaps occurred, I knew he was disgusted and he talked to the horses very sternly in words I had never heard before. The horses understood and everything worked better after that. A couple days later, something at home didn't go the way I expected and I became disgusted and used some of Grandpa's special words. My mother was shocked, grabbed me by the left ear, and put me on the basement steps with a bar of lye soap in my mouth "until all the bad words were washed out." My first use of German words was not a success!
I mean, never repeat Words you just hear and don't understand. :D but you have a really great story about your first contact with our language. :D
My 3rd generation Ohio father never called a certain newscaster anything other than scheisskopf. He thought he was being discreet.
@@semperfine4442 Today, that would apply to damned near every one of them! 🤣
My dad has told me that my grampa would swear at the pigs in Dutch when they made him angry.
@@semperfine4442 😂
As a substitute teacher years ago the class had accomplished everything they were supposed to on the teacher's schedule. We still had time.
I began to explain to the students that they spoke Americanized English because their English had many words that were foreign. They were puzzled. So on the board, I started to write German words, some French (restaurant, garage) & Italian (spaghetti, macaroni, adagio in music, salami, chicken, eggplant or veal parm (parmigiana) which I also told them is made with mozzarella, not parmigiana cheese). Spanish (loads of words). Latin.
The lesson was going with enthusiasm -- even the wise-guys in the back of the room were engaged. Two teachers from other classes came by for other reasons & stayed to watch.
I added words from other cultures & the class was amazed they actually spoke words from other countries. It was such a satisfying day. I didn't mean to score points, just fill time. The teacher wrote me a nice note saying the class always requests me when she is out. Sometimes teaching achieves its goal if it's a little entertaining.
Exactely. Like some german words are the same in french. But its just pronounced a bit differently.
dunno if you hear this a lot. But Thank you John :)
Hello Fraulein! Wie gehts?
❤❤🇩🇪bill furman, usa
You were a teacher in the real sense, beyond the title!
My father is bilingual (English & Spanish) and he studied Latin in school (Catholic) when he was young. My mother is English-speaking and she studied French in school. Growing up, my parents would occasionally say a word or phrase in other languages. My younger siblings took part in spelling bees (spelling contests for those unfamiliar) and word origins (Etymology) is something which influences how various words are spelt/spelled in English.
I always had an inkling of an idea that some words in English were taken from other languages. In a college class our Professor confirmed that and even broke down chronologically the formation of the English language and during what historical time periods words were appropriated from other languages. I think this was the same class in which we were to have read Beowulf.
I'm bilingual (English & Spanish, like my dad). Since I know both British & American, does that count as three (with Spanish)? I also know enough of several other languages to get myself into trouble. I want to learn more.
"More input!"
-Johnny Five
People in Rheinland-Pfalz: "Ein stein bier, bitte."
Me, an American: "Einstein must be pretty big here, they have a beer named after him and a lot of people order it."
That I thought xD I was just so "Woooow dude.. We use the word in this context? It sounds like 'Einstein'" 👁️👄👁️
Einstein was a German but he was go to America in the WW2 because he was a jew.
Bitte ein Bit. Bitberger bier.
@@firefighter1845 Austrian
@@catholicdad He is born in Ulm a German city so he was a German.
As a teen, I learned that the origin of "bless you" when someone sneezed was the belief that sneezing forced the spirit out of body. You were blessing them so that no evil spiritual forces could interfere before their spirit returned. When I thought about it, "good health" seemed to better represent my wishes, so ever since then I've said "gesundheit" (which I'd heard, but wasn't as common).
ditto
I grew up in northern New Jersey, where there is a big Yiddish influence, so we said things like meschigge, lox, stibitz and such all the time, without really realising the germanic root of the words.
Speaking of Yiddish, have you experienced any other German dialects in the US, like Texas German or Pennsylvania Dutch/Amish? There are more of them still around than you might think, and they're quite fascinating!
Fun part: most of those german languages spoken in the US are older than the standard german. Younger germans often don't learn to speak or understand those languages or dialects anymore.
I am from the Northwest of Germany and grew up with the regional frisian dialect. That dialect is part of the culture brought to the US by Mennonite / Amish people...
@@marcop4136 Yes, that's what makes them so fascinating; they predate Standard German, and in some ways they're like time capsules of dialects that are sadly dying out. Yet it's also interesting to see how they are being influenced by English. I hope these heritage languages can be preserved for many generations to come.
I'm an American living in Germany and before watching your video, the first 2 words that came to mind were gesundheit and kindergarten lol. My family always used gesundheit when someone sneezed and I thought it was pretty funny when I found out it's actually German and what it means ;)
I´m a German living in Germany, but i went to Europe on my motorbike, like Portugal, Korsika,l Italy...Pretty cool Countries we have here...
I like that more then America, except "Easy Rider"...;-)
@@kosmique Besides the fact, that "Autobahn" is a pretty cool band, (Look it up), on german Autobahns you can still, on most parts, drive as fast as you want...
260KmH ? No Problem...
THAT is like Americans, loving their Weapons...NO German Politician survives, if he says "130 KMH Max".
but it is in seroius discussion serveral times to limit speed on the autobahn, while there is no discussion to forbid weapons in the us. its part of the us consitution, while speed on streets is not part of the germann consitution ... so the comparison is a bit weird, but i know what you wanted to say, sorry my english is awful
I love the German word "Krankenwagen" and really wish we called our ambulances "cranky wagons"
no that sounds dumb af
Krank is Sick and not cranky
its not cranky wagon but wagon for sick people. Wagen für Kranke = Krankenwagen
I'll stick to ambulance....
@@shaungordon9737 So you prefer the word that English borrowed from the French? Because that's where "ambulance" comes from.
I really enjoy your videos. I am a Texan and I'm learning German so they are a lot of fun for me and a learning experience as well. Vielen Dank.
I am SO impressed with the depth of research you do to make these short videos. Thank you for your efforts. And, I love your infectious enthusiasm.
I was very confused the other day, when I heard an American talk about a "mishmash"
Ahh yes, a hodgepodge.
Durcheinander we say as German as weil for mischmasch
Or another synonym is kuddelmuddel
Its almost jewish jiddisch German dialects that means an Kind of circumstation that Things are mixed and Not sorted like an childrenroom after Playing with toys and all the toys laying everwhere.
Hey David
Great video!
My favorite german word that you hear occasionally here in the US is "Katzenjammer".
A few more words that you hear quite often are "ersatz" (which is a bad replacement in English) and "ur-" as in "the original something" 😊
I love your videos, Feli. Languages are so interesting, aren't they?
Iceberg is also pretty mucv just Eisberg but for some reason Eis is translated to ice, but Berg (mountain) not
Most of these words only exist in America because Germans used to be the second largest ethnic group in the U.S. (possibly the largest). We also have Oktoberfest all over the U.S. German was very common in the U.S. until WW1 when it was almost eradicated because of anti-German sentiment. It is still present with over 1 million speakers in the U.S. with thousands of Native Standard German and Plautdietsch speakers, many living in the Deep South and West. Plautdietsch is an old German language spoken only by the Amish and Mennonites in the U.S. They mostly live in Pennsylvania, but they are scattered across the U.S.
Native Americans were
speaking German. The proof is here:
Mel Brooks, Indian
Chief
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@@andrejtrebar443 That's from a movie and not a documentation... it's fiction
The major part of the sedlers were germans
20% of the white US Americans are " german" Americans.
Let's not forget Texan German. Emigrants from Germany settled in the Texas Hill Country in the 1840s. Up until fairly recently, German was as common as English in towns such as Fredericksburg, Boerne, and New Braunfels.
Fun fact: the town of Fredericksburg has a street named Hauptstrasse.
More and more the word backpfeifengesicht is used in English, and I'm here for it.
As a german, I actually wonder where it comes from. I only see it on "check out these funny german words"-lists. My guess would be that it's quite modern and local.
@@drsnova7313 modern? Not really? Local? Yes. Backpfeife is a slap in the face. But in different german areas you have different words for it. Handschelle, Ohrfeige, Watsche, Maulschelle and so on. So Backpfeifengesicht is just the dumb face someone makes and it's literally a invitation to slap him. Often in reference if he/she says something dumb or acts dumb/annoying. For Example: "Er hat ein richtiges Backpfeifengesicht!" - "He really has a Backpfeifengesicht!"
@@torstenbrandt5628 It might not be used everywhere, but even I as an Austrian know the word. We just say "Watschen" in Styria. lol
Backpfeife is no Bavarian word. I think it is pretty outdateed in German.
@Pustekuchen I know this word too. As I know it's usage it's more about the look of someone. Not in a nice way. Like "Schau dir mal die Hackfresse an! - Look at this ugly face" English translation isn't perfect I have to admit.
As German native it’s super interesting 😍 next time I travel to the us and I can try to use them 😂
Geht schlecht bei mir, bin minderjährig und kann nicht alleine nach Amerika
@@KINGLU3105 wieso? War mit 15 auch alleine drüben.
It may be helpful to do as Geli does. When she uses a German loan word, she does so with the American English pronunciation. The authentic German pronunciation would not register in the ears of Americans who don't understand German. They may even be unaware that the word they use so commonly is even German in origin.
Gruß aus Nebraska, USA.
As a categorized American, I categorically laughed at how labeled human beings are these days. Maybe 34,000 years from now, when all of us have cross procreated and there aren’t individual races, there willn’t be such a concern.
I am also pretty interested too👍
In Dutch the most used word borrowed from German would be "Überhaupt".
And "sowieso"!
In what kind of sentences, the Dutch are using that?
Maybe: "Wann überhaupt?" Or has it a different meaning for you? :)
@@ThatSux überhaupt is used as a kind of stop word... the best translation of the word in a Dutch sentence would be in English "at all".
@@koningbolo4700 a kind of "stop Word"? In a meaning of, a word you use to let a conversation end? The only way i know to use "at all" would be for the answer to a question like.. "What you are doing? 'Nothing at all" ... :)
@@ThatSux A stopword would be a word closing of a sentence... like young people use the word "like" on the end of a sentence.
Überhaupt would be used in a sentence like this:
"Het is überhaupt maar de vraag of er een corona vaccin beschikbaar komt dit jaar."
Translated: "It is questionable if at all there will be a corona vaccine available this year."
OR:
"Heb je überhaupt wel geld bij je?"
"Do you have money woth you at all?"
OR:
"Weet je überhaupt wel wat je gisterenavond in je dronken bui uitgespookt hebt?"
"Do you have any idea as to what you did last night in your drunk range?"
It is often also a word which desolves into the words of the sentence and becomes part of the context... especially when translated...
Haha, I knew about Angst because it's my last name! I also knew about the German meaning because my family emigrated from Germany several generations back. The name suits our family as well; looking back through the family tree you can see lots of anxiety disorders and such.
Interesting about that topic is that the contemporary german use which was explained in the video was not the use of it around a century ago. At that time the american variant was actually the one used in germany. I cite Heidegger "Angst ist immer Existenzangst." Angst is always existential angst. The german word that was used for the english word "fear" was "Furcht". It still exists but "Angst" is used for both existential angst and fear, which dumped down the german language a bit, since the difference was lost. I guess that the american leanword was adopted in a time where "Angst" and "Furcht" still had different meanings.
@@cthrivevideo there's also another word for Angst that is completely out of use in colloquial German, wich is "Bange".
Around my home, Liebchen gets used a bit, sometimes for my wife, sometimes for either of our cats. Dummkopf gets directed at certain public figures
You forgot the most populer German word "hamburger". Mcdonald was offended by this.
Thats also an inhabitant of Hamburg.
As a matter of fact , in Hamburg it is called frikadelle . When I saw Burger King at Kieler Straße in Hamburg I laught out loud , I couldn`t imagine Americans to sell hamburgers in Hamburg . So don´t do like me to ask for hamburgers in Hamburg .
@@gigirigips completely rubbish!
A Frikadelle and a Hamburger are two different things. If you want, you could call the pattie between the bun-halfs a very flat and underspiced Frikadelle. And of course you can order Hamburgers in Hamburg.
@@Waechter_im_All I did asked a hamburger for a hamburger in Hamburg and I created confusion . He and another guy didn`t understand what I`m asking for , I had to show them a picture and they say it is called Frikadelle . They are from Hamburg and I believe them . I know that Frikadelle means meat loaf and not the other ingredients , I know that Chili con Carne , contains more ingredients not only chili and meat , it is just the title , the name of the food .
@@gigirigips So then maybe you'd been talking to people from outer space. I ve been to Hamburg several times and I know you can get Hamburgers almost everywhere right around the corner, even cooked and served by native citizens of Hamburg. There's absolutely nothing special to it.
On a trip to Stockholm from Aachen, my wife & I shared a sleeper with four others. I had a slight cold & sneezed. Everyone spontaneously said, “Gesundheit”. We had a Swede, a Finn and two Nederlanders but all asked my wife why she used it. We couldn’t remember what else we’d use
"Bless you"?
1st sneeze: Gesundheit
2nd sneeze: Bless you.
3rd sneeze: See a doctor.
As taught to me by my Father, who as taught me, much to my Mother's chagrin, how to blow milk bubbles and shoot the wrappers off straws.
In Dutch and Flemish it's gezondheid.
I lived in Aachen for most of 2001, I loved it there; greetings from Texas! I'd love to go back sometime
In Swedish we say "prosit" when someone sneezes. In Finland probably "perkele".
Doppelganger has a more specific connotation in English than just lookalike, because it is often used to evoke a sense of unease or fear because the doppelganger is unnatural. It's a term you see used in science fiction and horror for "evil twins", ghosts, or aliens mimicking humans, that sort of thing.
That's more the Hollywood Twist on the word. My mother and Aunt and 9 uncles only used it in terms of look alike.
I was looking for this comment. Right on the money. Also it's more of a horror story thing, where I grew up. The doppelganger was a shadowy look alike that if it caught you looking at it would grab you and eat you. My grandma legit rustled all my jimmies with the story when I was a kid. Clean up until I joined the Navy when I ran into some people who pointed out some inconsistencies in her story. it isn't so creepy anymore
It's the same in German as well. It always has a kind of eery connotation. You would rather say "she could be your Doppelgänger" and not "she is your Doppelgänger" if that makes sense.
not everywhere. I've never heard of doppelganger having that connotation.
in my experience, doppelganger is used because it goes deeper than lookalike. two people that look similar are lookalikes, two people that look the same are doppelgangers.
I thought it really does/can just mean a lookalike too though and people find that concept itself creepy. ; p
I was always under the impression at least in English that the word Doppelganger was more than look alike. It expresses more than just being a twin. As with some other words the definition has changed over the years.
I agree, just saw your comment, find mine lol
Btw. "Gänger" is someone who goes.