Schadenfreude
Zeitgeist
Kindergarten
Haven’t heard Schadenfreude, good one to know
Tanking joy in someone else’s suffering
I prefer English words making it incorrectly into German. “Getting a handy from your buddy at a public viewing” is totally innocent in German.
Yeah, I brought the beamer in my body bag.
I’m scared to ask, but what’s a body bag in German? I’ve never heard that one used before.
it’s a Rucksack, but with an english sounding name. 🙄
That sounds hilarious
For context: Germans call mobile phones “handys”
I think doppelgänger is the most spread one.
That’s a good one!
Gracias compadre!
My friend in Australia is a doctor studying psychiatry and he kept asking me what certain worlds meant and half the time I had no idea what they were or how to explain them lol.
Very random. Here’s a wiki list but I remember there were some others too
Anwesenheit
Dermatozoenwahn
Entgleisen
Gedankenlautwerden
Mitgehen
Mitmachen
Pfropfschizophrenie
Schnauzkrampf
Wahneinfall
Verstimmung
vorbeigehen; vorbeireden
Witzelsucht
Würgstimme
Word salad/Wortsalat
Zeitraffer
Zeitlupenwahrnehmung
It’s kind of interesting to see the long lasting effect of Germans pioneering the medical field for a very brief time in history.
For the chess people: Zugzwang and Zwischenzug!
Not a chess person, never heard of them
Zugzwang is self explanatory but what is Zwischenzug?
Iceberg
Really?
I mean the English usually don’t call mountains Berg, right? Berg is German for mountain. Ice of course being Eis. And we like compound words.
But it’s Berg in the Scandinavian languages, too.
They are germanic languages after all. There are many words you’ll find in German and e.g. Norwegian, especially if you overlook slight spelling differences (endings, v or f, s or z,… )
Gesundheit
Poltergeist
Spiel
Stool ( Stuhl )
Rucksack
I don’t think I heard Gesundheit used in English much, though
It is usually used as an alternative to the religiously framed “bless you” when someone sneezes
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, which however, were not discovered by the well known mathematician Eigen. Ansatz ist also commonly used in research articles.
It’s funny how both the German and English stems from the whole word.
Zeitgeist
Spiel
Schadenfreude
Kindergarten
Gift. No wait
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As an American: Hamburger
I guess Wieners and Frankfurters would also count
In mathematics:
Eigenvektor
Nonmathematical, but same root, eigengrau, aka, the patterns you see if you press on your closed eyes.
Aah, there’s a word for it. I have been looking for it for ages.
I guess I should note that I’ve heard people calling the patterns eigengrau, but there doesn’t seem to be anything in the wikipedia about stimulating the effect with pressure.
Apparently phosphene is the general term for seeing things that aren’t photons.
I think the original mathematician that proposed this idea was named Mr. Eigen, so eigenvector doesn’t actually refer to the german word “eigen”.
If I remember right the term was introduced by Hilbert
this is not true. The eigenvectors direction remains unchanged by the matrix representing alinear mapping. it is therefore characteristic to the matrix, hence the term “eigen”.
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Zugzwang
Bremsstrahlung
was soll das sein?
Strahlung, die beim Abbremsen von Partikeln entsteht.
Das ist, wenn du auf Toilette warst, die Spülung es aber nicht ganz schafft, dein Werk verschwinden zu lassen und stattdessen an dessen Oberfläche am Porzellan, der sogenannten “Bremsspur”, kollidierendes Wasser nach oben an deinen Allerwertesten abstrahlt.
Doppelgänger
