Free and fun quiz to make you laugh out loud Download this free quiz and try to guess the funny German words and phrases. Funny German phrases and things to say in German Idiomatic language can be a lot of fun - from the very first cream to the very last thing. This term he notes as meaning "independencedeclarations" (sic), which is perhaps a parchment-saving way our own Declaration of Independence could have been titled. Meet Larifari Tohuwabohu and Holterdiepolter.
Twain's frustrations with learning German are well documented in his book A Tramp Abroad.
And to think we English language speakers consider it a feat to verbalize "antidisestablishmentarianism" without stumbling.Īs David Sedaris noted in his New Yorker article about learning German, this word is most astutely described as another option for "partner" or "lover," but with a more transient twist: "the person I am with today." A more elegant, proper version of the term is lebensabschnittgefährte. What follows are 10 of our favorite seemingly-never-ending German words, which earn a spot on our list thanks to characteristics like technicality, definition, adaptation, or sheer perseverance in length. As Mark Twain put it, "Some German words are so long that they have perspective." As a result, the language is rife with lanky terms. Compound words exist in many languages, but German's grammar construction in particular lends itself to easily tacking on parts to make single words stretch across a page.
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