Things that I do WRONG in German

Hey rabbits!
In many videos I talk about common mistakes that non-Germans make when they try to learn German. But what about me? Am I perfect speaking my native language? The disappointing answer is: NO! Not at all!
Today I want to tell you about the mistakes that I, born in Germany, claiming to be a German teacher on KZbin, make in German. This is going to be quite embarrassing for me, but maybe this episode is going to make some German learners feel better about their own struggles, which makes it totally worth it.
Which mistakes do you make speaking your native language? Which words do you misinterpret, which ones did you invent yourself? Let me know in the comments! Have fun with the video!
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[@jeremyemilio9378]

I am a simple man

[@clermeil]

I hear you brother.

[@MemerDad]

you are not alone

[@NykkLaTenebra]

Me too

[@MrBladerunner91]

and that is what she knows you idiots. Thats why she have so much power over men.

[@NykkLaTenebra]

@@MrBladerunner91 Bullshit. She knows this, and continues to be unstuck in the videos to catch the views. She's a profiteer. She also made a video, some time ago, about the problems of having big boobs... too obvious that it was a take-views video.

[@stevethecatcouch6532]

If Eric's Dödel reminds you of an Allen wrench, he should probably have that looked at.

[@Blackstock123]

...if she keeps dressing like that everyone will be speaking German.. :o

[@jame4696]

ya

[@zestful988]

🤣

[@msphack1]

Kurturmis yup

[@vardikar270]

Ja

[@MemerDad]

@Joey George hahahhahaha

[@wwbdwwbd]

Her eyes are up there. Her eyes are up there. Damn it, her eyes are up there!

[@schimbuldenoapte5626]

it is the first time that I've looked into Trixi's eyes, good to know that they are blue.

[@maksphoto78]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/raXUhZSmn9eDnq8 ;-)

[@sld1776]

"I've made my choice" --Homer Simpson

[@MstrCorrin]

Ive given up trying to win that game

[@djentyman4002]

It’s tough guys...

[@abrahambankhead359]

Thank you again for another video! I really appreciate the material, I know if I just keep studying I will get there. As I gain fluency I go back and watch your Trixie rabbit videos and try to understand. Each time I return and play it over, my ears understand more and more.

[@davidwebb4904]

The tool from IKEA, it's called an Allen Key, or a Hex key. :)

[@mystica-subs]

innen sechskant schlüssel = Inner Hexagonal Key apparently ;)

[@countertenor5890]

David Webb was always told it was an Allen Wrench.

[@Seveenti9]

Imbusschlüssel :)

[@markbernier8434]

schlussel sechseckig?

[@atomicdancer]

Der Dödel it is, then!

[@upfreaks]

1.) Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Dativ_ist_dem_Genitiv_sein_Tod 2.) Innensechskantschlüssel is more commonly known by its Markenbezeichnung "Inbus" or Inbusschüssel. 3.) In (US) English an Inbusschüssel is called a hex key wrench but is more commonly referred to as an "Allen" wrench (a registered trademark by the Allen Manufacturing Company).

[@hrdkor79]

I also have an issue with articles in German, since we don't have them in English. It always makes me think it's hopeless, but I still try. You do make me feel much more competent knowing articles are an issue with natives too. So vielen Dank für das!

[@MarcelJ.]

There are some non native speakers who eventually learn the art of the article, but they are far and in between. I know a guy who's lived in Germany for over thirty years and he still can't get it right. It's because there are no real rules, well, there are, but there are so many exceptions that there may as well be none. Besides, many dialects have ways around the article. For example in Hessia you can just say 'de' (short 'e', almost 'ö') if you're not sure which article to use and you're always right. Of course, you would then be expected to actually continue to speak and understand people talking to you in said dialect...So maybe just endure the sympathetic smiles instead of the awkwardness of asking your conversation partner again and again to repeat their statements... Halte durch!

[@Snowman1944]

I love watching you vids! Your sillyness always puts a smile on my face. 😊

[@ryuzzakibsb]

The lessons I take from these videos where you point out language mistakes is that the speakers tend to make things easier. Because of communication needs, the spoken language tends to be more dynamic.

[@13vatra]

Exactly! Most native speakers of just about any language tend to use slang and shortened words in a very fluid manner. That's one way you can often pick out those that your native language is a secondary language for them, they tend to use a lot more official by the book diction instead of slang. Slang tends to be very colloquial and regional.

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

A very common mistake in German that I actually like, because it is creative, is the combination of "wollen würde" zu "wöllte". This is wrong, but I still like it very much, because it increases the efficiency of the language by falsely applying a rule that works for other words, but not for wollen. But although I love it so much, I am often too proud to use it, because it is incorrect. So I sometimes write "wollen würde (=wöllte)" or something like that.

[@MonsterMoloch]

You can say "Inbus-Schlüssel" (not "Imbus" by the way) to your "Dödel". INBUS is technically a brand name but it's colloquially used for these tools in general. (Like "Nutella" or "Tempo")

[@lisaf5683]

In meiner Familie (und generell auch in dem Ort, aus dem ich komme auch?) wird auch ab und zu "eheren" verwendet. Ich wusste nicht mal, dass es das nicht gibt! Es wird auch eher als sprachlich höher betrachtet, als "früheren" was wirklich seltsam ist, wenn es das nicht gibt. Deshalb wird auch eher "früheren" gesagt, aber auch schon öfter mal "eheren".

[@kristian2643]

can't focus on her beautiful face, i was distracted by the "subtitle"

[@lioba.94371]

Ich kenne "Dödel" als (zumindest in Österreich gebrauchtes) Wort für Trottel!

[@Oneinethemillionflyes]

Auch wir in Norddeutschland kennen "Dödel" eher als Trottel :D

[@jwelchon2416]

Thanks Dr. Trixi!! Great video.

[@kianroushanai2224]

DontTrustTheBoobs

[@19ghost73]

The tool is an "Innensechskantschlüssel" in German / an "Allen key" in English...commonly known under the trade name "INBUS" ("INnensechskantschraube Fa. Bauer Und Schaurte). A screw-head with a hexagonal socket was a massive improvement for powered fastening compared to slit or cross-slit ("Phillips") screw-heads many decades ago. A more intriguing and humorous German slang word is "Schnuddel", which describes any detail/object that sticks out somewhat from a larger object and has a complicated technical name which ordinary people do not know but need to describe to someone else. E.G.: a spout ATB, Gereon

[@jsmpsnn]

I was just staring at the subtitles...

[@garyd1125]

Have a great Sunday Good video as always

[@sld1776]

She mentioned gendered nouns, one of my favorite topics in language. Every Indo- European language uses gendered nouns--except English.

[@kraigh1814]

sld1776 English used to have them but they were dropped.

[@MarcelJ.]

Well, english and german have the same roots, modern english is further from them than modern german...or so I've heard

[@waterdrager93]

Afrikaans doesn't gender nouns either.

[@sld1776]

All right that makes it two--unless you count Afrikaans as a dialect.

[@Mattheuw1154]

Dutch in general does not have gendered nouns. Or at least, not this complicated. I believe they only differenciate between living things and inanimate objects.

[@gerdpapenburg7050]

By living near Nürnberg for a couple of years I have also learned that Franconians use "der Butter" instead of "die Butter". The genetive is not used at all where I live in Germany. You can hear sentences like "unser Omma sein Hund"

[@thorz7304]

Gerd Papenburg Der und die Butter dürfte auch im gesamten schwäbischen Bereich ein "Problem" sein.

[@gerdpapenburg7050]

@ Thor Z - Ich habe in Böblingen und Esslingen gewohnt, dort aber nie "der Butter" gehört. Dies ist erst geschehen als ich nach Erlangen umgezogen bin.

[@BiBaBeluBaB]

Grausam. Omas Hund is way shorter. I will never understand this

[@spaceowl5957]

BiBaBeluBaB Yeah but if you wanted to say "Our grandmas dog", that would be "Der Hund unserer Oma" in German. And that feels way harder to say than "Unserer Oma sein Hund" so I kinda get it. I agree that it's a grammatical abomination though lol

[@AndyCandy188]

Another problem here in Munich is "das Nutella" and "die Nutella". But yes, I also say "der Butter".

[@M.for_now]

My name for the "Winkelschraubendreher" ist "Ecken-Schraube-Dings" 😅

[@debratillman4122]

i am learning german. your videos are very helpful and encouraging! keep it up!

[@mitchellhodgemeyer7306]

Trixie, just FYI, the tool is called a hex key (or hex wrench) or an Allen wrench.

[@mizinamo]

Der ehere Zug reminds me of north German adjectives such as “das abbe Bein” or “das aufe Fenster” or “die zue Tür”.

[@gerdpapenburg7050]

Trixi, I am a little bit older (64 years); during my childhood we used to call a 'Dödel' the same as nowadays a 'Dösbaddel' would be called.

[@inaderp5046]

Me too! Just that I'm 26 and got in a lot of trouble in school when we were ask to name some common swear words (such as Heiopei, Knallkopf, Trantüte, Pappnase..)

[@UntotesSchaf]

My English teacher called me a Dödel because one time I forgot my homework. ;-)

[@callacrum6559]

as an english speaker who enjoys learning foreign languages, i always mix up the words cognate and conjugate...

[@wolfhirschmann2422]

Wie witzig, schmächtig und vollschlank hab ich immer genau wie du intuitiv anders rum verwendet! Witzig.

[@simonlavelle5572]

Greetings from Australia :) I hope the baby is happy and well ^^ I have a friend in Germany and you have helped me to flatter her many times ^_*

[@Gnarlf]

Well.... "Der Dödel" is a nice way of describing it, but if you build the furniture together with your significant other, it might get confusing or hilarious.... probably hilarious. Next time, just try INBUSSCHLÜSSEL Easy to remember and easy to say. And it is like saying Tempo or Kleenex when you want a Tissue

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

I believe the tool in question is an Allen wrench, sometimes also called a hex key. Don't ask me what that translates to in German. Also, don't confuse it with a hex screwdriver, which is the other kind where the head of the screw is hexagonal on the outside and the driver fits over it. One of my favorite misunderstood words in English is "inflammable", which means "capable of being set on fire", i.e., exactly the same thing that "flammable" also means. (It comes from inflame + able, not from in + flammable as people sometimes guess.) "Irregardless" is a similar case, which originated as a portmanteau of "irrespective" and "regardless", not as a direct combination of the ir- prefix plus regardless, as people sometimes assume. The latter word is controversial; some people say it's not a word at all, despite clear evidence that it is, in fact, widely attested.

[@Gigaknight]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="166">2:46</a> -- A little late to realize you've lost the plot, Trixi. But it's one of the things that make these videos so entertaining.

[@jule9304]

Dear Trixie, your pronounciation of "Schornstein" reminds me of the way it is said here in Hamburg Slang terms! As you are from Hamburg as well, maybe you picked it up from some older folks who still speak the dialekt? Btw you are awesome and I enjoy your content very much! :) much love from Hamburg to you!

[@DontTrustTheRabbit]

Thank you so much! :) Yes, good old Hamburg times...

[@jule9304]

[@helloweener2007]

Frühsythien... these yellow flowering bushes you mostly use for Easter decoration. Took me long not making this mistake anymore and call them Forsythien. For my grandma they are still Frühsythien. She says she doesn't care that they are named after a royal gardener.

[@gabosampallosaez5296]

I’ve always struggled with “schedule”. I’m like “should I say it as if it was a German word? a French word? a Spanish world? an Italian word? **mind blown**. Danke Trixi für ein neues Video💜

[@rickpoeling6831]

Hallo Trixie! Vielen Dank für dieses Video. Das Wort "sternenklar" wusste ich schon. Aber ich habe immer gedacht, dass "vollschlank" "completely thin" bedeutet. Deinetwegen weiß ich jetzt die richtige Bedeutung. :-)

[@lazyperfectionist1]

"The world would fall apart if this tool wouldn't exist." Close, but no. "The world would fall apart if this tool _didn't_ exist."

[@DontTrustTheRabbit]

Thank you.

[@itsamichanbitch]

I tought both would be correct. Hihi

[@marbe166]

Both are correct.

[@cl0udbear]

"didn't" is event worse English, because you should use the conditional tense here. Trixi's mistake wasn't as bad, because she did use the conditional, but she picked "would not" instead of the much cleaner "were not to". You should say "The world would fall apart, if this tool were not to exist", but it's far better to get rid of the 'if' and just say "The world would fall apart, were this tool not to exist."

[@JoshuaHillerup]

Player Of Games that would be far too formal a register for this channel. That's like, formal announcement by the Queen level of formality.

[@J_GamerSP]

Ich würde sagen "die Brezel" hört sich am besten an. Die wahre Herausforderung ist Nutella.

[@LinkaRamosM]

I constantly invent Spanish words or make adjectives from words that are not and I think it's funny 🤷 I love your content and hope to learn German soon! Love from Colombia 💖

[@The00000000000L]

The Innensechskantschlüssel is often called Imbus. I'm not really sure why, but I assume that's a companies name which slipt into the day-to-day language.

[@fmhazgar]

I have a lot of brothers ans sisters (5 of each actually) and we have invented some specific words without pretending to do it! As an example: We usually say that somethings is Apbs in order to indicate something is more than amazing in a cool and useful way. Apparently the origin of the world comes from our childhood and some infomertial on TV to do abs. It's so funny to remember the origin!

[@scythelord]

Starnenklar makes sense to me. The sky is the subject that is Starnenklar. The sky has to be especially clear to see a lot of stars. If the air is hazy but cloudless, I wouldn't call it clear enough for that word.

[@DanieltheWolf76]

St.... only northern german pronounce it like that, based on flat german( plattdeutsch),

[@DanDownunda8888]

Trixi is most definitely NOT a flat German :)

[@WhiteSpatula]

Great one, Trixi! I can relate. A handful of English words have always been roadblocks for me. My native tongue! And still.. it’s like my brain is a hard drive and those words simply got written on a bad sector. It took me forever - like, after high school, forever - to pronounce ‘abominable’. Luckily it’s only ever needed when quoting angry religionists or talking about cartoon snowmen with children. Aaaand.. that’s probably why it took me so long. Oh, gosh, what’s another?.. I stubbornly spell ‘until’ abbreviated as ‘til’. I will not, repeat NOT, spell it with two L’s. A till is a cash register, not a preposition. So there! Thanks, Trixi. You give me courage. Cash-register next time! -Phill, Las Vegas

[@michaelmajoreck3558]

Reduziert Trixie nicht auf ihre Brüste!😂

[@furkane.erkose3140]

'' die Sternenklar'' also has the meaning of ''Starlit'' or ''Starbright'' because ''klar'' comes from Middle Low German ''klār'' and from Latin ''clārus'' (“clear”). As an adjective, clārus means ''Clear, bright''.

[@aulid9607]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="0">0:00</a> what

[@sld1776]

Trixi being Trixi.

[@13vatra]

A surprisingly accurate portrayal of an angry chihuahua.

[@LigH_de]

This is a *RUFF* episode.

[@aulid9607]

LigH xD

[@michaheinet7553]

Zum Thema ,,einen eheren Zug“, Wir in Schwaben sagen ,,einen bälderen Zug“, also die Steigerung bald - bälder - am bäldesten anstatt von ,,früher“

[@DemTacs]

Ich hatte früher Probleme mit Wasserschutzpolizei. Sehr oft kam dabei Wasserschmutzschpolizei dabei raus. ^^

[@dannybun9332]

We use sternenklar in english too.

[@Thomas-ob5fe]

nice greetings from Bavaria. "eheren" is just a normal word down here, maybe you pick it up from some southern-german?

[@andreasforster3614]

It's also a common practice in Hamburg to use anything that's only remotely adjective-like as a full adjective (das Bein ist ab -> das appe Bein, der Wald ist weg -> der weche Wald, etc.).

[@wernerhiemer406]

Andreas Forster M Apropo Lokalen Dialekt ist sie ja mit der Zunge auf einen spitzen Stein gestossen. Auch wenn es da oben eher steen hiesse.

[@jakerio8]

Something about you hypnotizes me.

[@vglittlebear5452]

Hi, I got until Winkel ... so I guess Winkeldödel makes perfect sense. Remember the song: "Du must doch nur den Nippel durch die Lasche ziehn ..." i'm sure I've just dated myself horribly, but if you ever listened to the refrain, you'll be singing along! Thanks and cheers! 🐾🐻

[@mirchacastelan3277]

You are very BEAUTIFUL !!! Could be posible if you do a video to learn german alphabet or a serie of how germans learn german?? It would be cool, thanks and Love from Mexico n_n

[@timkortegast4822]

Actually, I use to struggle in the case of „Wachs“ I‘m a native speaker of the german language but at least everyone says „der Wachs“ while I use to say „das Wachs“ I don‘t know why. I had my ten years of school english (that means a little of the british and lots of american because the most use to hear american influenced (Pop)music) so thank you for teaching us the tiny things in between!!!

[@jas88cam]

Alternative name for the ubiquitous Allen key? I like it. Get Ikea to use it in their instructions, see if you can get it to catch on globally!

[@shannoncampbell3851]

Wabba lubba dub dub! I always enjoy your videos Trixie

[@dragonmac1234]

You can certainly do a scarily accurate dog bark Trixi, I have a cloth ear for other languages (English is sometimes hard enough for a native speaker). I've picked up a few words and phrases in several languages, but my grasp of the gramatical structure of sentences is terrible :D

[@debrajoan1]

Agreed--Trixi could hang with Michael Winslow in a dogfight. (But I think her bark is worse than her bite.)

[@RonaldLAbbey]

Trixie what you call der Dodel is much more polite than what I’ve called it or thought about this piece of junk that Ikea & others put in their assembly kits. Luckily, I have a couple sets of high quality versions of this infuriating thing that works quite well. Here in the States they’re called Hex keys or Allen wrenches. LOVE your channel!!!

[@jame4696]

Trixie, you are such a sweetheart. And I just love your videos.

[@randypullman1155]

Sweet. Try to warn us of the "squirrel apocalypse" lol

[@randypullman1155]

It's an offset driver.

[@lukaskalkowski7091]

you say schorn-s-tein because of the way your tongue moves in your mouth whilest producing the n-sound (which is an alveolar nasal.) whilest s is an alveodental fricative, that is pretty close to your tongues place and manner for /n/, sch is a palatal fricative, which would be pretty much work for your tongue. i guess that's why you prefer the s.

[@MarcelJ.]

Truth is, new words pop up in Germany all the time and they are normally regional. For example, I often use the word 'Dingens' (according to the translator it means 'thingy', which is totally wrong, 'thingy' is 'Ding', 'Teil', 'Dingsbums' or 'Dings', although the latter two can also be used instead of 'Dingens', which is used to refer to a person whose name you forgot while talking about them (though it's super rude if said person is present)). I think almost every german has at last once used a word in a totally new way, or invented a completely new word. That's common. I think the 'vollschlank' is quite interesting. 'Vollschlank' may mean 'chubby', but 'voll schlank' means 'super slim', it's almost like 'umfahren' and 'umfahren'. Oh, and wasn't the IKEA tool the 'Imbusschlüssel'?

[@PixelatedH2O]

Trixi, there's are two words in English that I somewhat surprisingly know many people use incorrectly. I've seen many people say "defiant/defiantly" when they mean to say "definite/definitely". They can mean the same thing, but one is stronger than the other. Several people also often confuse "a" and "an" because while they seem like they should be logical, being that "an" is typically used before words starting with consonants, that's not always the case. "A" can be used when the word following has a silently spoken first consonant. Thanks for the video, though I think it confused me more about German than I was.

[@scythelord]

The entire defiantly/definitely issue only occurs in text, which can entirely be traced to autocorrect and the effect it has had on people's spelling abilities. It almost never happened prior to autocorrect and mobile browsing. Never once in spoken language have I ever came across a person using defiantly when definitely was the word meant to be used.

[@PixelatedH2O]

scythelord I actually have heard it spoken. And in the case of auto correct, I've also known people who didn't know the difference between the words in the first place, even when the error is mentioned.

[@13vatra]

Definite and defiant do not mean anything similar at all, they are completely different words.. Definite means "without a doubt, clear". Defiant means "uncooperative and resistant".

[@sailorcat]

Ja, den Genitiv lasse ich auch oft weg, aber ich geb mir Mühe. xD Es ist nicht falsch, aber mein Freund aus dem Norden rastet jedes Mal aus, wenn ich "der Butter", "der Haargummi", oder "das Teller" sage! XD Oder "Ich bin gesessen/ gestanden". (Dafür bringt mich z.B. sein "Ich habe hier eine Lampe ZU stehen" auf die Palme. xD) Was ich wirklich falsch mache: Nach "weil" den Satz nicht umstellen, oder nur ein Wort nennen. ("Weil: Geld." "Weil: keinen Bock.") Ich hab das Wort flauschen (Verb) erfunden. xD

[@LigH_de]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="51">0:51</a> - der, die , das / wer, wie, was / wieso, weshalb, warum / wer nicht fragt, bleibt dumm <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="178">2:58</a> - "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod" (Bastian Sick) ... and who would not invite you to a party, with your funny shenanigans? <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="275">4:35</a> - a sharp "st" is a common habit among people living near the North Sea coast (Holsteiner); do you have relatives there? One of the inexplicable words I enjoyed to use is "Eumel" (especially as a slightly insulting nickname).

[@emilialavarellocambaceres315]

In spanish (my native language) i only have grammar mistakes and i never put a "coma(,)" or a "stop(.)" i write like if i only say that with out breathing.

[@staubfingerstochter1268]

Ich hätte den „Dödel“ jetzt Inbusschlüssel oder kurz Inbus genannt... Und mich verwirrt es immer noch, dass man nicht nur „die Nutella“ sondern auch „das Nutella“ (was zugegeben relativ viele Menschen machen) und sogar „der Nutella“ sagen kann. Ich meine „der Nutella“?! Wieso ?

[@DanieltheWolf76]

Staubfingers Tochter es heisst ja auch, DAS Nutella. Allerdings gibt es keine wirkliche richtige Form. :) der die das, wieso weshalb warum, wer nicht fragt, bleibt dumm! Hahhaaah

[@hollenfurst7104]

Der Inbus, so nannte man den Dödel früher, bis einige verwirrte Studenten die Dinger umbenannten in Innensechskant. Scheisse wo ist jetzt der SchraubenZIEHER...?

[@BiBaBeluBaB]

Its Inbus not Imbus. But Dings is also ok

[@DanieltheWolf76]

Claudia Pohl Innensechskantschlüssel (INnensechskantschraube Bauer Und Schaurte → INBUS) manchmal, im Bus benötigt. Hahahaahah vorzugsweise in einem Setra

[@silkeschumann7261]

Nutella ist der Markennahme und je nach dem was verkürzt genutzt wird, ist es die Nutella Schokoladencreme, das Nutella Glas oder der Nutella Aufstrich.

[@randykarraker1210]

Du bist perfekt!!

[@resmensa8312]

my favorite is "Kiefer"... a steady gag in my relationship. my mate is 100% sure, it´s DAS Kiefer(bein) and I always answer:"No, it´s DIE Kiefer, of course!" :D:D

[@UntotesSchaf]

@ Trixie: Eherer ;-) habe ich auch gedacht, dass der Bandscheibenvorfall ein Vorfall sei, wo etwas mit der Bandscheibe vorgefallen ist und nicht, dass die Bandscheibe vorgefallen ist. Schmächtig hast Du vielleicht unbewusst von Schmacht abgeleitet? Und Dein Schornstein klingt mächtig norddeutsch. Hab ich gar nicht mal so selten gehört. *klugscheißmodusan* @ alle anderen: Im Bus brauche höchsten einen Inbus, aber keinen Imbus... Es ist ja schließlich keinen Immensechskant (das hätte dann etwas mit Imkerei zu tun, aber nicht mit Handwerk...) *klugscheißmodusaus*

[@pierreabbat6157]

I get mixed up about whether "wake up", "awake", or "awaken" is the correct transitive form.

[@austinarcher626]

Hi Trixie! Love the made up words XD. In English, I always mess up words like colonel and cavalry. XD

[@Thunderwalker87]

Sweet merciful heaven... why did I like trixie barking at me?

[@Neribia]

You can also say Imbus instant of Dödel.

[@gent997]

Zum Dödel sagen viele auch Imbus-Schlüssel. That’s a key in the bus.

[@Sordrak]

Einen ehernen Zug könnte auch von „ehern“ sein, so im Sinne von aus (Eisen)erz ;-) das ganze macht das wiederum deutlich komplexer... dadurch dass der Zug eben aus Metall war ist er leistungsfähiger als der langsame Bambuszug aus dem Zeitalter wo die Gummistiefel noch aus Holz waren 🤪

[@teresagustafsson3527]

The word "sternenklar" is quite interesting, we have the same word in Swedish, stjärnklart with the same meaning :) And the Ikea tool, I never remember the name either :)

[@Nojaru]

The vollschlank thing sounds similar to the relationship between the English words "awesome" and "awful"

[@splish24]

Das viele Leute „wegen“ nicht mit dem Genitiv benutzen ist nicht falsch, sondern lediglich ein Zeichen dafür, dass Deutsch eine sich verändernde und damit aussterbende Sprache ist. Die ersten Dinge die eine Sprache verliert sind der Genitiv und das Präteritum. Kaum noch jemand benutzt beides, sondern verwendet in dem einen Fall den Dativ und im anderen Fall wird lieber Mit Perfekt umschrieben. Beide zwar grammatikalisch gesehen falsch aber vollkommen normale sprachentwicklung.

[@GranRey-0]

Google says it's a Hex-key(Sechskantschlüssel) but I grew up calling it an "Allen Key".

[@johnnyfiver4274]

I called it a 'doohickey', as in "Where is that darn doohickey? I need it to put the sofa together. Oh drats, they didn't ship it? Sh#!sa!

Too funny! Thanks for sharing....LOVE YOU! :-)

[@Ivy3h]

I used to think that “beleidigt” meant “embarrassed” 😂

[@thereturningshadow]

Trixi, Everybody Everywhere makes speech mistakes speaking in their own language. Don't feel bad.

[@photoallergic]

Half of the currently 213K subscribers could not care less about what she is talking about, and her choice of clothing substantiates that she is well aware of it. Of course, I am far from complaining. Actually, in all due respect and sincerity: She deserves more subscribers. This IS unreal physique that asks for sporadic hardened analysis by a wide audience. Yeah, talk german to me, Schätzlein (

[@janjangirls417]

My family has always made up words or messed up sentence structure as a joke. But that has lead to me having embarrassing moments finding out which onces my family made up and which are real names. Such as... i have always heard the Remote Control being referred to as the Bodger... since you bodge (press) the buttons. Turns out every family has a different nickname for it.

[@leospc]

Dödel ist für mich einfach nur ein slangword für eine etwas verpeilte person

[@wernerhiemer406]

Celina spc Oder verstrahlt. Obschon eher amphetaminiert gemeint ist.

[@laurelthomas5215]

To assemble furniture from IKEA you'd use an *Allen wench* or a *hex key* ; sometimes it's called a _Torx_ , but that is actually a brand name and would be like calling a tissue a Kleenex.

[@MarianneExJohnson]

I totally agree that "eher" should be usable as an adjective. In Dutch, it is: "ein eherer Zug" = "een eerdere trein." Not being able to do that in German is just wrong.

[@CheetsNglitches]

I mess up the usage of whom

[@PixelatedH2O]

I learned that if a phrase would use "he/she" then use who, but if the phrase would use "him/her" then use whom.

[@timothy9634]

See en.wiktionary.org/wiki/objective_case

[@christopherjensen794]

Have you considered the German ( or Svensk ) word for " 5 mm hex wrench?" ( six sided thingummy that Ikea depends upon). Great show! I thought about taking up German...and I'm still thinking about it...

[@MrWicked17]

Yay upload! Comment coming after I watch

[@bmoo4377]

I love your.....

[@verdakorako4599]

Personality

[@genesisexodus4687]

Bmoo big ol bitties

[@eaterdrinker000]

cultural and linguistic curiosity?

[@bmoo4377]

Engagement for linguistics

[@genesisexodus4687]

Bmoo right between them

[@13vatra]

I can just imagine Trixi and Eric buying two pieces of furniture and both putting them together. Trixi loses her allen wrench and calls out to Eric: "Eric! hand me your Dödel!" long story short nine months later there is a third baby rabbit.

[@_mortiam]

den Ausdruck "einen eheren Zug nehmen" kenn ich aber auch, ist also wohl nicht nur in deinem Kopf entstanden^^ Den Bandscheibenvorfall hab ich bis zu meinem Studium auch immer genau so interpretiert :D Mit den Bandscheiben ist halt irgendwas vorgefallen. Hab mich immer gewundert, dass es so ein unpräzises Wort im medizinischen Fachjargon gibt^^ Und sternenklar ist wohl eher so gemeint, dass man die Sterne eben klar am Himmel sieht.

[@ayacachotinemi4974]

I always wondered whether Germans sometimes got the genders of their words mixed up. Thanks for clearing that up.

[@HalfEye79]

Das mit "Schornstein" ist mir auch lange Zeit passiert. Wenn ich mich nicht irre, ist das ein Überbleibsel von der Aussprache vom Plattdeutsch. Mein Großvater hatte viel Platt gesprochen und viele Wörter mit st und sp hat er mit scharfem S ausgesprochen.

[@Vytautas99]

I don’t worry about the grammar police ‘cause I speak in catchy one-liners.