"Glaubt mir, Deutsch ist gar nicht so seltsam."
* "Believe me, German really isn’t that weird after all."
"Hello!" in Hamburg and the North
"Hello!" in Switzerland (die Schweiz)
"Hello!" in Austria (Österreich)
"Hello!" in Hesse (Hessen)
"Hello!" in Cologne (Köln) and the West
"Hello!" in Bavaria (Bayern) and the South
"To have a pig" = To have a stroke of luck
"Celebration evening" = The end of the work day
"Ass violine" = Slur for an obnoxious person
"That was so clear!" = That was totally predictable!
(In Bavarian): "Hey, are you doing well?" - "Yes, and yourself?"
"Potato" = Nickname of German-Turks for their fellow Germans.
(In Bavarian): "Down the hatch in one go!"
"Stroke-wood-little-box" = A matchbox
- Perfekt = German spoken past tense
- Präteritum = German written past tense
"Das Wetter" = "The weather" in German
German saying: "Everything has an end, only the sausage has two."
"Leave it in the sheath, little son." = Don't even try it, sonny.
"Snack cat" = A sweet-tooth
"To say it through the flower" = To say it in a roundabout way, to beat about the bush
"To make blue" = To skip work or school for a day, to skive off work, to play hooky
"To play the insulted liver sausage" = To be butthurt, to get in a huff
"Tja" - The German word for little accidents, things you can't change, spilled beer, bad sex, bigger accidents, a zombie outbreak or the Apocalypse.
See for example: "Schmetterling"
"To have a tomcat" = To have a hangover
"Huuu?" - The German way to express a total lack of understanding
It’s not as hard as some people say to make friends in Germany. You just need to know how.
In German, the gender debate is not raging over pronouns, but over noun endings.
"Hey you, no hair on your head but a comb in your pocket, eh?" - Typical Berlin humour
"Raven mother" = Slur for a bad or neglectful mother
"Poison dwarf" = Slur for a small and spiteful person
"I burn, you burn, we burn, everything burns!" - The typical reaction of an A1-level language learner when they have to conjugate German verbs for the first time. (It gets easier, promised!)
"Until soon" = See you soon - at Talkademy.