GERMAN WORDS That Even GERMANS SAY WRONG

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

Ich sage KAF-fee zu dem Getränk, aber wenn ich Kaf-FEE sage, dann spreche ich von einem Café, einer kleinen Gaststätte, wo man sitzen und KAF-fee trinken und Kuchen dazu essen kann.

[@Sketchblopp]

So gehts mir auch. Ich vermute, dass das durch das é kommt, was ja im Französischen durch das ´ ein langgezogenes eeee wird.

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

Ja, da ist was dran :-)

[@peterkoller3761]

in Österreich ist es immer KaFFEE! Es sei denn, man spricht von irgend einem kaum trinkbaren, entkoffeinierten "Gschloder" wie es die Deutschen leider nur allzu oft servieren, dann wird dieses voller Verachtung manchmal in gespielt-germanischer Aussprache als "KAffee" bezeichnet.

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

peter koller Ihr Österreicher habt ja auch ne komische Sprache. Und ne komische Haltung, wenn Ihr denkt, dass die Deutschen keinen guten Kaffee machen können. Das können sie durchaus, und gar nicht mal so selten.

[@babablap]

@peter koller, solches "Gschloder" nennen wir in Norddeutschland übrigens "Plörre".

[@faolair3320]

The one with Charisma really suprised me, the 'right' version just sounds so weird and I haven't heard anyone say it like that to this day

[@moonshine6542]

There are some words in Germany, with ch at the beginning of the word. Some of these words everyone pronounce with k like Chameleon or with k like Chef. But some of these are just pronounced in southern Germany with k like Chemie or China, while everyone else pronounce them with ch.

[@maritta2504]

As someone who had this discussion all the time with some bavarian friends :D.... How you pronounce the "ch" at the beginning of words highly depends on their origin. If they are of greek origin, the ch will mostly be spoken as k as those words usually started with the letter χ (chi), which was pronounced as k in old greek (not in modern, standard greek of today though). That's why things like Christus or Christian and all words comming from that are pronounced like k. I am living in Chemnitz currently, and the ch is also pronounced as k, because the word Chemnitz is of sorbic/slawic origin and comes from the word "Kamenica ", meaning stone river and thus it's "Kemnitz" (I always have to beat discussions when someone says "but you don't call it "schemnitz", why should it be "Schemie" and "Schina"??) .... Chemie on the other hand is an example of the two ways you can pronounce a chi at the beginning of the word, old greek "k" vs. modern greek "ch". However, I have never heard anyone pronouncing "Chef" with a k.... Although the origin should suggest it's spoken with a k. Edit: I don't actually pronounce those words with sch though. I just wrote it that way to make the point clearer ;).

[@nina6350]

moon shine In Austria we pronounce words like China or Chemie with K. I think pronouncing it with Ch or Sch sounds very odd

[@maritta2504]

Only bavarians and austrians (or, as we like to say, everyone south of the Weißwurst-Äquator ;)) pronounce it with k. Both are correct, but the pronounciation with ch is more common throughout german speakers.

[@nina6350]

South of the Weißwurst-Äquator 😂😂👍

[@SakraIgor0qNomoko]

The Duden is a cool name for a dictionary. For all those dudes and dudettes.

[@videomailYT]

SakraNomoko no the name Duden belongs to Konrad Duden, which was the first person that write all words so, that they are similiar. But there is one exception, der Thron the sovereign (ruler) say 'nobody is able to touch my Thron.' and that's the reason why we use Thron with an h but the pronounce is Tron with an middle-length o and not a short o...

[@rcookie5128]

Hast du den Duden? Always said that in elementary school.. :) (Technically the "hast" could be replaced with any kind of verb I guess)

[@videomailYT]

But the word hast belongs to haben=have and doesn't mean eile=hurry...

[@rcookie5128]

yep (german here), good that you say that as it could be irritating.. ^^

[@videomailYT]

Woher, aus Berlin?

[@julian.6251]

Ich bekomme immer eine Krise, wenn jemand "Vanillje" sagt ._.

[@Mattheuw1154]

Die Niederländer sprechen das so aus und es wird gleich geschrieben.

[@schneefreudeYuki]

ich hab früher immer Vanille gesagt, jetzt sage ich eher vanillje. Einfach, weil es sich für mich schöner anhört :)

[@missionic7673]

So ist es aber richtig. Du sprichst ja auch nicht Tortilla oder Paella so aus wie es geschrieben wird.

[@sec101]

Laut Duden.de geht beides völlig in Ordnung. Deine Krise kannst Du Dir also sparen. www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Vanille

[@sophiebach2834]

ich sag beides

[@ib9rt]

Oregano has different pronunciations in English too. In Britain we say oreGAno, whereas Americans say oREgano.

[@ProfessorMusice]

ib9rt Australians tend to say oreGAno too

[@moogsi]

The word is borrowed from Greek, but among a few speakers in Europe (British English speakers and some Germans apparently) it's been reanalyzed as a Latinate word. If you assumed this word was e.g. Italian or Spanish in origin you would pronounce it oreGAno. The original stress pattern in Greek is oREgano.

[@theanderblast]

ib9rt In both (orégano) and Italian (origano) the emphasis is on the second syllable, not the third, according to the online dictionaries I've checked.

[@dxabier]

You are correct. In Spanish is oRÉgano.

[@davidesegato2080]

dXabier in italian too we say origano, with stress on the i

[@jbmbryant]

Hello Trixie. I really enjoy your videos! A slight correction: In English one would say 'allergic to' not 'allergic against'. Ex 'I am allergic to gluten' Tschuß!

[@xapokalypse]

I had all of them right except Charisma. I've never heard someone say *Ch*arisma. Not even my old German teachers

[@HalfEye79]

Same here. Seven out of eight. Only Charisma was "wrong".

[@Dunkelelf3]

yeah that one got me too.. and i also never ever heard anyone say it that way.. on the other hand i lived in the south most of my life and we like to say kemie and kina so that we say karisma is understandable..

[@michaelstaadt8937]

Melissa Apoka That is because he was your old German teacher and not your anchient Greek teacher.

[@Dunkelelf3]

but the pronounciation of the greek chi would be k and not ch..

[@IsaHeinrichs]

I hate it when people say "umbedingt" instead of "unbedingt". This word doesn't make sense in anyway.

[@xapokalypse]

Isabel Heinrich Sie meinte umbedingt nicht unbedingt. Unbedingt ist natürlich richtig.

[@Pricher1991]

Fümf ist auch sehr gut.

[@missionic7673]

Oder "Siemunzwanzig" (27) oder "füazehn" oder "fierzn" (14). Oder "O-Ringe".

[@maraboo72]

@Pricger1991 Genau. Es heißt nämlich "fümpf".

[@videomailYT]

maraboo72 nein, fünnef...

[@irondasgr]

Greek person here. Of course, as anticipated, most of these ambiguous words are of greek origin. It was - nonetheless - most surprising for me to hear, according to Trixi, that the Duden dictionary insists on their original greek tone placement, which of course is the right and accurate philologic/scientific attitude. So : oregano originates from the greek word "ρίγανη", where the tone as you can see is placed on the syllable ρί (re). So the right way to say oregano should be oREgano. charisma was the most surpising of all because in my opinion the Duden dudes go one step further actually. Instead of adopting the most popular english-fied version of kaRIsma, they insist on its original greek pronounciation of h - a -risma, which best attributes the greek word "χάρισμα" meaning "innate gift" paradoxon comes from a classic greek word "παράδοξο" at which the accent (tone) is placed on RΑ, so properly again the dictionary supports the paRΑdoxon version Αs for gluten, which is a scientific word of common use in greek food science and chemistry, despite it being latin, in greek is pronounced "γλουτένη", so its suggested way explains the gluTEN version over the GLUten which would be more close to its latin origin

[@DontTrustTheRabbit]

Thank you very much for these explanations, very helpful, insightful and interesting!

[@irondasgr]

My pleasure. I like your videos despite the fact that I don't speak german :))

[@agnesefiorentini5261]

DontTrustTheRabbit Hi Trixi, I'm Italian and since the word "broccoli" it's an Italian word too, I can tell you that here, we pronounce it with a short "o" and not with a long one 😄 Hope you can find this useful 😄 Have a nice day :)

[@Gnarlf]

""ρίγανη", where the tone as you can see is placed on the syllable ρί (re)" you just made my day! thanks

[@hansha5721]

+Astir01, is seems to me, you couldn't understand the intention of this contribution above

[@Nifuruc]

I refuse to say CHarisma...-_- although I say CHina and CHemie and not "Kina" and "Kemie" like some other tend to say... "Karisma" just sounds right

[@biancak.9909]

Nifuruc Das variiert einfach wegen den Regionen ^^ in Bayern v.a. sagt man all diese Wörter mit “K“, was einfach dem Dialekt/ der Gewohnheit bei uns geschuldet ist :)

[@schwarzertee7586]

nein, das nennt man Sprachfehler ;-)

[@Nifuruc]

Schwarzer Tee​ Behindert bin ich nicht. Aber ist auch schwer zu erkennen, wenn man nicht mal lesen kann. Weil ich genau das gleiche geschrieben habe. Und jetzt frage ich mich, warum ich überhaupt auf solche asoziale Kinderkacke reagiere... Vielleicht hätte ich nicht erwartet, dass ich unter einem von Trixis Videos beleidigt werde...

[@Wieloryb9000]

Hauptsache erstmal schön beleidigen, gibt nichts Besseres im Internet. Und das nennt man nicht "Sprachfehler", sondern es handelt sich, wie Bianca K. schon sagte, um Dialekte. Es gibt nicht umsonst verschiedene Sprachgebiete und Dialektgruppen im Deutschen. Wenn es nach deiner zum Glück trivialen Meinung gehen würde, würde man etwa 90-95% der Deutschen Sprachfehler attestieren, weil sie ihren Dialekt reden. (Das gilt im Übrigen für so ziemlich jede Sprache, also runden wir das grob auf 90-95% der Weltbevölkerung auf). Und nein, ich selbst sage nicht "Kina" oder "Kemie".

[@maritta2504]

Diese Diskussion hab ich so oft mit Freunden :D. Ich finde, "Kemie" klingt komisch, andere finden, "*Ch*emie" klingt komisch. Viele dieser Wörter kommen aus dem griechischen und fingen da mit chi an. Die altgriechische Aussprache ist wie k, deswegen sagen wir zB "Krist" und "Kristian" etc. Im modernen Griechisch wird chi eher wie "ch" ausgesprochen.... Deswegen wäre eigentlich "Kemie" sogar korrekter. Aber in diesem Fall sind beide Aussprachen erlaubt. Dialekt und so....

[@marbe166]

Ein MOtor, zwei MoTORen, stress changes when they multiply :).

[@josephinhiding3595]

Doesn't make sense to complicate the language; the fewer exceptions the better. Things should remain consistent and logical.

[@Filtertuetchen]

Ein MoTOR, zwei MoTORen, das MoTORrad. Immer gleich, so ist es recht...

[@chreurope]

About Kaffee, you say say your granparents say "kaffe", that's the danish pronounciation. Could this be the case? I would guess that there is a tiny influence from danish due to the proximity and for historical reasons on the northern german dialects, especially in Schleswig and Holstein, and to a smaller extent also in Mecklenburg and Hamburg areas.

[@marbe166]

Kaffe is the Swedish pronounciation (and spelling) as well.

[@DidrickNamtvedt]

We say it the same way in Norwegian too

[@ZER0ZER0SE7EN]

"Glutten morgen" In the US a cafe (ca FE') is a restaurant where you buy cups of coffee (COF' fee).

[@KiraFriede]

It's also in German, the café is a french word so we pronounce it as CaFEE. If you are going to pronounce Kaffee in the same way, you have to look at the context (or when reading on the spelling)

[@XYpsilonLP]

I also tend to say it is the northern german pronounciation. "Kaffe" is pretty common where I grew up.

[@SOIBand]

Nun GLUten ist der Plural von dem Wort Glut. Während GluTEN der Inhaltsstoff ist. Ich denke es macht Sinn auf diese Weise, da durch Aussprache beide Worte sinnig voneinander getrennt werden. Es ist natürlich keine Regel aber eine adäquate Lösung.

[@azurmarlinW]

Die Gluten???? Noch nie gehört, ich dachte immer Glut sei wie Sand. Was GluTEN betrifft bin ich glaube ich einer der weniger aus der Chemie kommenden Menschen die diese Betonung nicht mögen da es sich bei der Bezeichnung um einen reinen Trivialnamen handelt und eine GluTEN Betonung falsche Rückschlüsse auf einen Zusammenhang mit der Struktur oder zumindest einen systematischen Namen andeutet.

[@Gnarlf]

Ist es auch. Aber die Sande der Zeit hast du sicher schon mal gehört. ;)

[@HexenkoeniginVonAngmar]

SOIBand Ich jedenfalls nicht

[@affenmensch6938]

Der olle Rückert jedenfalls kannte es noch (wobei das natürlich kein Maßstab sein sollte). Beispiele: i.hizliresim.com/8MvXEA.jpg oder i.hizliresim.com/8MvXz7.jpg

[@CatNolara]

+gEchochamber Ist das wirklich so? Interessant, dachte das wäre auch ein chemisches Wort, da findet man diese Endung ja auch häufiger wie bei Ethen oder Ethylen z.B.

[@brokenbutler]

@9:50 it does make sense, because it's in both cases the penultimate syllable, which I think if you look at German words it's most times the case that the penultimate syllable is the one you "pronounce stronger"

[@ladyi7609]

Lowkey loving the accidental ASMR tingles I get from your soft speaking voice, especially toward the end there. You should totally think about adding ASMR content to your channel! Even if it's just softly reading stories in German, which is an underserved market right there.

[@VJDanny1979]

Kaffee mit der Betonung auf der zweiten Silbe, ist für mich das hier : Café. Eine gastronomische Einrichtung, wo Kaffee und Kuchen (und anderes) serviert werden.

[@lillemuller7893]

VJDanny1979 tut mir leid das ich dich korrigieren muss aber dieser wo Fehler den jeder 2 hat regt mich so auf 😂😂 Es muss heißen eine gastronomische Einrichtung in welcher ...

[@volkerysilvia]

Reg dich besser ab. Beides ist komplett richtig.

[@pinkstrawberry1581]

Ahahah I tend to say "BALlast" but "BalLASTstoffe" 😂

[@pinkstrawberry1581]

And I've never heard "Scharisma" in my life, I pronounce it KarISma

[@HDDcam73]

Pink Strawberry in English ballast is something you find railway tracks sitting in 😂

[@banchnotok]

Ch≠Sch.

[@frederickwoof5785]

Pink Strawberry or in the bottom of ships

[@affenmensch6938]

except in and around Cologne .........

[@johnblair9506]

You have so much charisma that I look to you to learn German even when I don't necessarily feel like it.

[@Faxeable]

Das EINZIGSTE!!! ARGH! Es heißt das EINZIGE!

[@user-bg7ef4ns4v]

Genau wie "öfters" statt "öfter".

[@hannahpunkt]

"Öfters" ist aber so gesehen nicht falsch, sondern einfach eine Abwandlung die in manchen Regionen gebräuchlich. In meinen Ohren z.B. klingt "Ich habe das schon öfters gemacht" einfach besser als "Ich habe das schon öfter gemacht". Je nach Herkunft eben. Aber "einzigste" ist einfach grundlegend falsch, weil es von "einzig" keine Steigerung gibt, auch nicht in anderen Regionen :D

[@Thorsten_Wiegand]

@@hannahpunkt Klar kann man solche Worte immer noch weiter steigern. Das "Allereinzigste" z.B. Sind halt Superlativformen. :)

[@sylverscale]

I have never heard someone say Chhharisma, only in parodies... Knotschi / Gnotschi... (Gnocchi) and Oberschiene (Aubergine) are pronunciations that drive me nuts. :p

[@funtashy8522]

Same!

[@docDeutschmann]

Njocki? (Mal so als Vorschlag)

[@funtashy8522]

maus201 Den Laut in Aubergine gibt es im Deutschen eben nicht. Die phonetische Umschreibung lautet "obɛrˈʒiːnə", wobei das Zeichen vor dem "i" eine Art weiches "Sch" ist. Dieses weiche "Sch" kommt im Französischen of vor. z.B. im Wort "je" (=ich). Falls du Französisch sprichst, weisst du was ich meine. Wenn nicht, gibt dir das Hörbeispiel bei Leo (neben dem französischen Wort auf den Pfeil klicken) eine richtige Widergabe dieses weichen "Sch"s. dict.leo.org/französisch-deutsch/aubergine doc Deutschmann, Njocki, genau. ;-)

[@funtashy8522]

Maus201, Ich bin davon ausgegangen, dass Sylverscale das meint, weil ich dieses "Oberschschschschiene" eben auch sehr oft höre. Aber vielleicht meint er/sie ja etwas ganz anderes.

[@davidkerber99]

das wird "Nocki" ausgesprochen^^

[@Belgarion2601]

The weird thing is that my brain is so confused by now that I alternate saying "OREgano" and "OreGAno", "BALlast" and "BalLAST", and so on. It even depends on who I'm talking to!

[@maraboo72]

Parameter the same as Paradoxon. It has nothing to do with the metric system. The words derived from the old Greek with more than 3 syllables have the emphasis on the third to last, if they are not changed into a German word. So it is Análysis but Analýse.

[@disaronio787]

Hey Rabbit deine Videos werden echt immer besser. Schau ich mir immer wieder gerne an ;)

[@andichris4333]

Auch ein Leckerbissen: "Ich nehme meine Pizza MIT OHNE Oregano!" **MIT OHNE** ist total gaga....

[@androlsaibot]

3:15 did you say Anchorage-ing?

[@tendraausbuchhaim105]

In Switzerland, we mostly pronounce it in a third way with a velar "ach"-Laut (that is normally pronounced after the vowels a, o and u): [ˈxarisma], but not [ˈçarisma]. But I think that's because we just don't have the "ich"-Laut :)

[@MihcaelTube]

AFAIK the third version of "Kaffe" is mostly common in East-Berlin and Brandenburg. My family is mostly from there and I happen to know people from around Germany. The question is if this regional version could be something rather old or new? What was the official version in the GDR? Interesting.

[@apewil1994]

I really cringe when people say "eXspecially" when it doesn't have an X 😂 I found this t shirt that says "I'm secretly correcting your grammar" and wanted to buy it instantly. Then I realized I have a problem 🤭😂

[@Captcaveman74]

In the US, ballast is an electrical component for office and outside light fixtures.

[@unclejimbo1857]

Jody Hartwig or transferable/non-transferable weight in a boat or ship.

[@yugimuto9763]

I've been very interested in language lately so i just wanted to say i think your content is legitimately interesting. as an english speaker its fun to see the german roots in the words i use all the time. der duden. d:

[@habkenname6573]

Im Grunde liegt die Unfähigkeit Wörter korrekt auszusprechen nur an den vielen unterschiedlichen Dialekten in Deutschland. Zum Beispiel würde ich als Unterfranke nicht sagen "Entschuldigung könnten sie mir sagen, ob diese Lebensmittel Gluten enthalten?" sondern ich würde sagen "Dud mir leid aber kannste mir mal sache ob da Gluden din is?"

[@lillemuller7893]

Habken Name bei uns dürfe es heißen Dud ma laid awa kanscht dau mia saren ob lo gluden inne sääään

[@habkenname6573]

Lille Müller wenn ich nicht wüsste was du meinst hätte ich jetzt keine Ahnung wovon du sprichst. Hab aber schon schlimmeres gehört etwa 15 Kilometer Luftlinie von meinen Heimatort entfernt liegt der Ort Frammersbach ist zwar auch noch in Unterfranken aber die sprechen dort einen extrem gruseligen Dialekt (Welschen) z. B. sagt man im frammersbacher Dialekt nicht "Heute hat es den ganzen Tag geregnet." sondern "Uitehä euthä ishä iendä uenzengä uegtä geirgneträ"

[@katharinaanna199]

Habken Name und in der Schweiz: Tued mier Leid, aber chasch mier säge öb da Glute din sind? (und das nur in Nidwalden, gibt noch viele andere Dialekte)

[@habkenname6573]

Katharinas kat(h)astrophale Welt ja meine Schwägerin hat mir das auch schon mal erzählt das die Schweiz was Dialekte angeht ein ziemlich böses Pflaster sein soll.

[@katharinaanna199]

Habken Name Ja... 😂

[@scottfw7169]

We use ballast for several things, such as weight to properly balance boats, but I'm interested in the word like we use it for the gravel supporting railroad tracks - is the German word for that different?

[@tjstarr2960]

Most of these except "Oregano", "Kaffee", and "Paradoxon", "Charisma", and "Motor" can be remembered with an easy rule: The stress is ALWAYS on the first syllable of a noun in native German words. The same is true of native English words. So, if you are a native English speaker, put stress on the same syllable you would put it in English. It is only in compound words that the stress might be shifted, and that is what causes the confusion. So, if there was no word "Ballaststoffe", no one would be confused about what syllable was stressed in "Ballast". You mentioned the stress shifting when you compared "Motor" to "Motorrad". All the exceptions I listed are loanwords from Italian, French, Greek, and Latin, and there is some disagreement about how to pronounce these words. As for the pronunciation of "Charisma", the only reason you would pronounce it with a "K" is due to the influence of English. Traditionally, words from Latin or Greek with the "Ch" spelling are pronounced like German "Ch". I just don't know why people use a soft-Ch (as in -CHen) in the word "Charisma". For all the native German speakers out there: how do you pronounce "Motörhead"?

[@lyfamilie7133]

Ich habe in der Buchhandlung nach einem Origami Buch gefragt. Die Antwort von der Frau:" Da müssen Sie mal in der Gewürzabteilung (Kochen) nachschauen. Ich habe nochmal nachgehakt und wir beide sind zum Ergebnis gekommen, das Origami nicht Oregano ist :) Heute Abend backe ich mir mal eine Origami Pizza, sorry eine Pizza mit Oregano ;) Freut mich, dass bei dir alles gut gelaufen ist :) LG Sung-Co

[@DontTrustTheRabbit]

Haha, wie cool! Origami-Pizza schmeckt bestimmt wie Pappe. Danach ist man PAPP-satt. Ok, ich hör lieber auf mit den Witzen, die sind ja flach wie Papier! ;D

[@lyfamilie7133]

Den lustigen Spruch kann ich nicht kontern (ich habe leider alle tollen Schwertkampfdialoge von Guybrush Threepwood vergessen, die ich mal im Spiel benutzt habe ;) Also beiße ich mal in die Pappe ;) Bon Appetit

[@DontTrustTheRabbit]

Ich zittere, ich zittere. Du kämpfst wie eine Kuh! ;)

[@lyfamilie7133]

Das geht auf keine Kuhhaut ;) Mein "E-Kuh" wird deinen "IQ" schlagen ;) KAFK Kuh away from keyboard :)

[@Buster_Flex]

Yeah awesome du kennst Monkey Island ;-) Du kämpfst wie ein dummer Bauer

[@agod5608]

I find the relationship between pronounciation and enunciation to be a musical question,as both are actually sang. Accent is attitude inflection., Which is also sang. This also accounts for the shift in inflection in all three. Attitude inflection can be musically notated and performed phonetically the same as music. It is in fact the major effort when putting lyrics to music.

[@utenzil]

A common American English thing when talking about "spices". The best term is "seasonings", which covers spices(cinnamon), herbs (thyme, oregano) and minerals (salt). The advantage to "seasonings" is that it is always right when referring to using, uh, stuff to adjust the flavor of savory food (non-dessert type food). Dessert is where you are using "flavoring" (vanilla, lemon, other extracts). But then it gets crazy, as you've already noticed: seasoning and flavoring are both nouns AND verbs, where you could say."Oh boy,' dinner looks great! Trixi is seasoning the sauce with Mexican seasoning, and flavoring.the cake icing with caramel flavoring!"

[@BarnaBreyer]

Ich finde es schlimm, dass viele (sogar sehr gebildete) Leute "zumindestens" sagen... Das macht mich wahnsinnig 😂

[@Al69BfR]

As far as I know, in german the emphasis of a word often depends on the numbers of syllables it contains (and where you live ;-)). So like between paradox and Paradoxon, the emphasis can change from Motor to Motorrad.

[@agod5608]

you make learning fun. I have learned much from your videos. your teaching skills are very entertaining.

[@VictorLepanto]

A paradox is a small ship port w/ only two places for the ships to moore themselves. It only has a paradox.

[@Cadfael007]

"Ballast" was/is used in ships (Stones, Water etc.). To make the word "Ballast" more understandable during heavy weather it was/is better to scream "Bállast" than "Balást".

[@valberm]

As a Brazilian living in Germany and eating now and then at Subway, I'd order my sandwich with a cheese oREgano bread. But I noticed that other people were asking oreGAno all the time. Oregano sounded like a latin word and although I was confident that my pronunciation (which was based on the Portuguese one) must be correct, but I didn't do the effort of researching whether I was right or wrong. Besides, sometimes the "sandwich artists" wouldn't understand what I said -- maybe especially because the were already biased by my not-german face -- so I decided I'd just say oreGAno and since then everything "worked". Living here, I finally understood what language is all about. Before, I'd stick with what was the "correct" way (be it grammatically or regarding pronunciation), but now, as a foreigner who is always looked biased upon, I realized it's easier to break the ice and establish a connection with people by "speaking their language", even if you know it's wrong. It hurt in the beginning, but I learned to get over it.

[@eyreland]

English has 2 pronunciations for OREGANO : UK and North American, each one with a different emphasis. Is there a correct pronunciation for this borrowed word ... not that I know of.

[@JimGrey]

I can't believe it's o-ray-ga-no! That breaks a couple standard German pronunciation rules I learned in high school!

[@blykam]

Das mit dem Motor und dem Motorrad liegt daran, dass beim Motorrad ein Doppelkonsonant vorhanden ist und deswegen ein langer Vokal gesprochen wird, was hingegen beim Motor eben nicht der Fall ist. :)

[@Officialhelpkenet]

How your grandparents pronounce Kaffee is exactly how we pronounce it in northern Sweden. (kaffe) In southern Sweden it has another pitch accent but it still very similar.

[@christianst.463]

Gluten is a substance contained in bread that some consider unhealthy although its not even digestible as far as i know, and gives bread its softness. when people eat gluten free, they often replace this mostly harmless (unless youre allergic) sbstance with unhealthy alternatives like sugar

[@Emily_Hurley]

Love that you did this on my mom's b'day. I think maybe it depends on where in italia one hails from as to how it is pronounced...

[@trevorbanahaskey5600]

Teutonic: stress on the root syllable usually. Romance: stress on the penultimate (next-to-last) syllable in words ending with vowels or certain consonants, and on the ultimate (last) syllable in words ending with all the other consonants. Exceptions generally noted with an accent mark. The fact that English stresses o-RE-ga-no while Italian stresses o-re-GA-no illustrates that Italian is a Romance language while English is a Teutonic language (one of the many Plattdeutsch dialects in fact).

[@kentix417]

Trevor Banahaskey Every Italian speaker in the comments here says the stress is on the second syllable in Italian (spelled with an i, though).

[@karleick6679]

When I say motorrad with the first syllable stressed, I get a more litteral picture in my head, like a wheel with an engine attached to it or something.

[@mporto2112]

A variation that always caught my attention is the one in words ending with "-ig". Some people pronounce words like "wenig" as "wenich", while others say "wenic". I guess there isn't a correct version in that case, but the first version seems more common, am I right?

[@funtashy8522]

That is a regional thing. This might help: www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/germanistik/sprachwissenschaft/ada/runde_1/f14a-c/

[@misamokuzelpizu]

there is : "der ChaRAKter"(singular), "die ChaRAKter"(plural) meaning your personality and the"der ChaRAKter/CharakTER"(singular), " die CharakTERe"(plural) meaning e.g. the protagonist in a play. how ist the the second "charakter" spelled? charakTER or chaRAKter? and is this even correct?

[@misamokuzelpizu]

www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Charakter

[@Lazarus7000]

My boss says "Proprietory" instead of "Proprietary", drives me up the wall.

[@gregorykrajeski6255]

In English lots of words change stress based on whether they are being used as a noun or a verb, whether they are compounded with something else, or even which slight difference in meaning you are using. One word that I always recall in English is "antipodes" meaning two points which are the furthest as possible from each other. You can pronounce it like an uneducated oaf and sat "an-tee-podes" with three syllables or pronounce it like you know what you are talking about and say "an-ti-po-dees" with four syllables. That word is relatively uncommon, but following the correct pronounciation of that one, I always used four syllables when referring to the artificial sweetener "aspartame". I was wrong. My pronounciation is usually not even mentioned as an option in dictionaries. But I'm still right. The rest of the world will catch up eventually.

[@hannahbahmanngraham9639]

Another great video, Trixi 😊 😄 I'm English, but I've been saying German Oregano wrong... I think the Duden pronunciation is quite similar to the American emphasis (O*re*gano), but from me as Brit, the British English emphasis falls how you (and I) had been saying it! (ore*ga*no)

[@eyreland]

GLUTEN, if one is going to be emphasizing the 2nd syllable with an 'IN' emphasis ... should it not be a 'F Noun' (not Neuter) ...

[@boxuranus959]

Paradoxon is a Greek word and in Greek the tone falls on the second syllable and the d is pronounced as the "th" in "though". Charisma is also a Greek word and it is pronounced as "hárisma" with the h back in our throat like in the word horse for example. The tone goes on the first syllable now.

[@dysastermaster]

Was ist mit den Klassikern Chemi/Kemi/Schemi und China/Kina/Schina?

[@JimGrey]

I think what's cool is that I had to guess at pronunciation of many of these words but I guessed one of the accepted pronunciations. So kann ich mich verstanden machen!

[@Leofwine]

Me, a native speaker of German, northern Germany: [oːˈʀeːɡaːnoː] [baˈlast] [ɡluːˈteːn] [ˈbʀɔkoːliː] [ˈkafeː] (the drink) vs [kaˈfeː] (the place where you drink it) [paˈʀaːdɔk͡sɔn] [kʰaʀˈɪz̥ma] (it's a Greek word, and this is as good as I can get to the Classical Greek pronunciation without sounding weird, *but* I say [çeːˈmiː]) [ˈmoːtɔɐ̯]

[@lea2315]

Ich spreche alles genauso aus und bin im Süden Deutschlands aufgewachsen 😅

[@nowave7]

Don't mean to nitpick, but most of these words are actually borrowed from other languages (mostly Latin). Would love to see you do a video on "proper" German words.

[@elmariachi5133]

The biggest failure you can actually do with broccoli is actually eating it.

[@dudefrombelgium]

i like the way she moves and talks, how she holds her hand up

[@roldanbelenos1549]

Your shift in emphasis between "Motor" and "Motorrad" is not at all unusual or irregular as far as I'm concerned. Notice that in both /MO-tor/ and /mo-TOR-rad/, the syllable that is emphasized is the penultimate syllable (the next to last syllable), which is totally consistent between the two words. This emphasis shift is actually a very common phenomenon in the English language, particularly with certain suffixes or parts of speech.

[@iamtoouncreative8890]

Ich hab nie verstanden, warum alle sagen, dass Deutsch schwierig ist...jetzt hab ichs kappiert😂

[@CW257866]

Ha! I thought I'd be totally lost in this video, but you picked a bunch of words that basically exist in English, too. And I find it _very_ interesting that "ballast" means "burden" in German. Makes sense, but the meaning in English has wondered quite a bit from that. Oh, and I pronounce it as "bal-ist"

[@alexriedel3067]

Schönes Video mal wieder. Aber das Meiste, was du aufgezählt hast waren entweder Unterschiede zwischen Hochdeutsch und einem Dialekt, wie "Kaffee" und "Charisma" oder zwischen Hochdeutsch und dem Umgangssprachlichen, wie "Broccoli". Zum Beispiel wird folgender Satz: "Ich hätte gerne eine Broccolisuppe mit einem doppelten Brötchen und dazu einen Kaffee mit etwas Sahne bitte." im Erzgebirge, wo ich her komme, so ausgesprochen: "Isch hätt gern ne Brökölisupp mit ner Semmel un nen Kôfé mi'm Bisl Sône bidde." Und wenn man das Ganze so betrachtet, kann man nicht mehr sagen: "Du mußt jetzt Kaffee anstatt Kôfé sagen." oder: " Sag Katze anstelle von Dôchhós (zu Hochdeutsch, der Dachhase)!" Also kann man nicht sagen, Hochdeutsch ist "DAS Deutsch" und der Satz: "Du kannst Dies und Jenes nicht sagen, weil das kein Deutsch ist." ist somit auch hinfällig. Letzteres kommt in deinem Video zwar nicht vor, aber ich wollte es am Rande mahl erwähnen. Ich bin leider ein Mensch der an Allem gern herum nörgelt und Alles verbessern muß und deshalb, und dass der Kommentar nicht allzu böse rüber kommt: "Weiter so, spitzen Videos." Und Grüße aus besagtem Erzgebirge.

[@mitdergesammtsituationunzu9319]

7:10 Nope, it has a fourth version of Kaffe! I heard many time somone says (heißer) Haffé in engl. "a hot hoffee"!☕🤓

[@miameyer5594]

Paradoxon originates from Ancient Greek and in this language the second syllable is always stressed, while the rest of the word isn't

[@Tete-lh5ij]

I pronounce "Charisma" the exat same way you do and I've never heard otherwise. That's astonishing 0.0

[@maddis_kdance]

Da ich ein paar Jahre Italienisch gelernt habe, bekomme ich regelmäßig eine Gänsehaut bei Wörtern wie "Knotschi" (geschrieben Gnocchi, gesprochen 'Niocki') oder auch "Lambordschini" (geschrieben Lamborghini, gesprochen "Lamborgini") oder auch "Sutschini" (geschrieben Zucchini, gesprochen "Zuckini") oder auch "Takliatelle" (geschlieben Tagliatelle, gesprochen "Talliatelle")...ich könnte noch stunden so weiter machen 😂 aber ich gebe zu, dass es tatsächlich etwas schwierig ist im Italienischen, da ein Vokal oder ein H hinter c und g schon die Aussprache des Wortes komplett verändern kann 😅

[@Mina_Meow]

Nugat: my mother taught me to say nugaa, because acording to her it's an originally french word, but everyone i know except for my family says nugat does anyone else say nugaa?

[@Treadstone7]

Since I was used to the "normal" pronounciation of "Meter", I was in huge disbelief when my math teacher began to use the word "Parámeter". Drove me crazy although I later thought she was probably right.

[@larryf2821]

I always pronounce ST as SHT, not just at the beginning of the word, as in Fest (fesht). That is probably a regional pronunciation.

[@brokenbutler]

for me KAF-fee is the drink, while kaf-FEE is the place where you go meet your friends...

[@bunnylein88]

Hallo Trixie, ich selbst sage Karisma, aber finde es zB. furchtbar wenn jemand Kina sagt. Finde deine Videos klasse! Du hast eine super witzige Art! Lg

[@Fuilleverte]

with Kaffee said Kaffe is similar to calling Coffee as Caf for the Caffeine. It is merely an Abbreviation of the word used like a verbal shorthand...

[@mtgreengarden]

In High School German class, we learned it as der MoTOR. We also learned it as der KaFEE.

[@DanDownunda8888]

I was on a plane from LA to NY and one of the cabin crew asked me if I wanted a drink. I said, "I'd like a cup of coffee (cough-ee in Australian) please. I had to repeat it 3 or 4 times until she understood. Eventually she said, "Oh, you want kaaawffeee!". Even in English it seems to have many different pronunciations.

[@bigd8870]

Hahaha I work in a coffee shop and coworkers will purposefully say EXpresso instead of ESpresso. 😂😂 the look on people's faces as the try to naively correct them.

[@michaeljuliano8839]

There are a few words in English that I hear people consistently mispronounce, but the biggest thing that bothers me are the grammatical mistakes where people choose the wrong form of a word for a given situation. One such example is "supposed to" which is often written and pronounced "suppose to." It's easy to miss the difference when spoken aloud, but "suppose to" is grammatically incorrect. "Suppose" is a verb and "supposed" is an adjective. It is supposed to be "supposed" because it is a Predicate Adjective. I had a rather rigorous English education from the private elementary school I attended, so I learned and remembered much of English grammar.

[@monkeyman4444444]

Gluten is a protein matrix, made when you work together the proteins glutenin and gliaden together with water.

[@adchoalulle387]

Ich dachte immer, Kaffee mit kurzem E wäre einfach Hamburger Mundart, weil ich das bisher nur von nach Hamburg klingenden Leuten gehört hab. 8) Ein Zisch-CH-Charisma-Sager ist mir ungelogen noch nie begegnet. Aber MOtorrad sag ich ähnlich oft wie MoTORrad, wie's halt grad aus'm Mund fällt. Was Betonungsunterschiede angeht, bin ich entspannt, geht alles. Gab ein ganzes Lied darüber in "Mickeys Clubhaus", ein Duett zwischen Mickey Mouse und Daisy Duck. Motor, Autor, da gibt's schon 'ne Menge, was man unterschiedlich betonen kann. Mir geht mitunter das Bremer ST/SP auf den Wecker, obwohl ich Bremer bin. Ich bin nie über'n spitzen Stein gestolpert, im Gegensatz zum s(ch)pitzen S(ch)tein. Klingt für mich nach vorsätzlichem Lispeln und Lispeln find ich anstrengend beim Zuhören, auch wenn der Sprecher in den meisten Fällen nichts dafür können dürfte.

[@gadjodilo6988]

i just start learning German and i love watching your channel xoxoxo

[@Gnarlf]

Honestly i had to pause and think about my answers. And now i have the feeling that i might change from time to time, but still keeping a preference for a special way. Oh and your little joke about "der MOtor und das RAd" is cute, only if you think that through, wouldn't that mean you end up with "das MOtorAd? Oh and it might be anecdotal but i never ever in my whole live encountered a person wo sais charisma like the duden suggest you should. its sound absolute strange to me. Nice video btw, thanks. :)

[@christianst.463]

to the part about the Paradoxon, first of all, its a situation that in and of itself is illogical, although not necessarily impossible, and its to pronounce, but pronunciatiom, so whats so weird about paradox and Paradoxon having different pronunciations?

[@flowerdolphin8920]

In Austria Charisma is pronounced like Ka-RIS-ma. I've never heard another version here

[@acc45460]

Same. And I never heard „K-A-ffee“ here.... It's always „Kaffeee“ :D

[@whatshisnamegain1]

Stefka Man wird ja in Ö auch (bildlich) umgebracht, wenn man KAF-fee sagt ;D

[@Erik_Emer]

"Kaffè" to sound like the Danish pronunciation of the word for coffee, which, when the pronunciation for the Danish word is put into German, looks like "keh-er-fe."

[@theonewithindividualcharac9336]

Languages are constantly changing - including words, grammar and spelling. Pronunciation is flexible because there are dialects and many people speak differently.

[@danlyle531]

I was told by my German teacher to pronounce Kaffee as KAF-fee to avoid confusion with Cafe (which I was told is pronounced Kaf-FEE or something similar)

[@shiroshinigami239]

Another one: Polyester is actually pronounced as two words Poly and Ester since it is just a combination from many Esters.

[@graemeroberts2935]

The woman who taught me to bake bread called it "glutton." I think she was looking at me.

[@stefaniewicke9574]

Hallo Trixi. Super Video! ich hab ne Idee/ wilde Theorie weswegen Motorrad und Balaststoffe an anderen Stellen betont werden als die Grundwörter, aus denen sie bestehen. Ich glaube man betont nicht so oft dir letzte Silbe eines Wortes. Bei Motor sagt man daher eher MOtor. geht es aber um ein moTORrad kann das das TOR betont werden da es im Gegensatz zum vorherigen kürzeren Wort nicht die letzte Silbe bildet. gleiches Spiel für BALlast und balLASTstoffe. denkst du das ergibt Sinn? Ich hab gemerkt dass mir bei allen vorgestellten Worten beide Möglichkeiten eingefallen sind und ich meistens auch beide schon benutzt hab. 😉 manchmal sicher ohne es zu merken 😊 liebe Grüße aus Neuseeland und einen tollen Sonntag. Übriegens bin ich auch schon sehr auf mehr Videos auf deinem neuen Kanal gespannt.

[@Viertelhund]

When I learnt the word "Rösten" it had a short "ö". Always. Until the 90s when some commercials for "KafFEE" promoted the awesome "Röööööstaromen" of their coffee with an "ö" stretched from Hamburg to Rio de Janeiro. Never heard that pronounciation before and seldom the other one after. It kind of drive me nuts that everyone (including me) is now using a pronounciation, which seems to me being sort of invented by some commercials. It's kind of weird anyway, isn't it? I think the switch in the pronounciation in paradox is an heritage of the ancient greek where pronounciation of most and meaning of some words switch with diacritic marks like accents which tend to change when prefixwords like "παρα" are glued together with the rest of the word. Thus, the pronounciation of "MoTORrad" is perhaps a consequence of a bit of a releationship between ancient greek and german language.

[@archibaldikowski3646]

könntest du bitte ein video machen, dass nur wie 07:20 - 07:21 is? das wäre echt toll! :)

[@daspaulinche1318]

@DontTrustTheRabbit: Fast alle deine Beispiele waren Worte aus dem Latein, dort wird immer die zweite Silbe betont - daher verschiebt sich die Betonung bei Vorsilben natürlich. (Zum Bröckelkohl braucht man wohl nichts sagen, ja so nannte man ihn hier früher.) Ballast ist das einzige deutsche Wort deiner Liste, es kommt von Bar-Last (R und L sind ähnliche Laute, daher hat es sich zum Ballast entwickelt und erklärt die Aussprache) Charisma kommt aus dem griechischen [χάρισμα] und hat dort einen K-Laut am Anfang. Zu guter Letzt fehlt nur noch das Wort Kaffee, es stammt aus dem Türkischen [Kahve], dieses wiederum leitet sich von der Königreich Kaffa (heute ein Teil von Äthiopien) ab - und schon sieht man warum es hier auch gerne Kaffe mit kurzen E gesprochen wird. Aber draußen nur Kännchen! Der Duden ist eben nur für Zweifelsfälle gedacht und nichts amtliches, da steht ziemlich viel Blödsinn drin was die Aussprachen angeht. Recherchierst du gar nicht für deine Videos? Denn einige Fragen sind schon echt schmerzhaft.

[@H4GEN]

Das ist aber Quatsch, sorry. Erst mal kamen nur wenige der Wörter aus dem Lateinischen (Gluten, Motor, was noch?). Zweitens wird im Lateinischen, wie im Italienischen, meistens die vorletzte Silbe betont. Manchmal auch die drittletzte, aber das hängt dann von der vorletzten ab (Penultimaregel). Eine von vorne gezählte Betonung (erste / zweite Silbe) gibt es im Latein nicht, daher sind Vorsilben für die Betonung normalerweise irrelevant. Barlast / Ballast kommt aus dem Niederländischen oder Schwedischen, nicht dem Deutschen. Du hast recht, dass Kaffee vom türkischen kahve stammt; die Türken, die ich kenne, betonen das aber auf der Endsilbe, also kahwé, nicht káffe (vielleicht hattest du das aber auch so gemeint). Nicht für ungut, aber ein Vorwurf schlampiger Recherche fällt schnell auf eine*n selbst zurück.

[@TheZorbey77]

French origin terms are the hardest to pronounce. Croissant, Parfum, Cousin, Restaurant. I really want to call it "that moon shaped French bakery" to save the stress.

[@sunside79334]

love it how you get ballast to whole new level...^^

[@DidrickNamtvedt]

lol we pronounce "coffee" as "kaffè" in Norwegian, it's the only way we pronounce that word here so I found it funny that in German, this pronounciation is considered a mutation or odd way of saying it

[@lizafinke8691]

Ich liebe deine Videos, Trixi😘❤😘

[@DontTrustTheRabbit]

Tjank you so much! :3