#english is a germanic language

[duckprintspress]

when you reblog, tell us what languages in the tags!!

[naareblogs]

Today is speak your language day :D! Which is your first language?

Porque el mío es español xD

I tried to add as much as I could! But I got out of space :,D

[candela888]

How to say "grape" in Romance and Germanic languages in Europe

From Latin ūva (“grape”):

uva (Spanish/Castilian)

uva (Asturian)

uva (Italian)

uva (Portuguese)

uga/uba (Aragonese)

uva (Galician)

uva (Judaeo-Spanish)

uva (Piedmontese)

uga (Lombard)

iva (Romansch)

úa (Sardinian)

ùa/ova (Venetian)

auã (Aromanian)

From Latin racēmus ("cluster or bunch of grapes"):

raisin (French)

racina (Sicilian)

raïm (Catalan)

rasim (Occitan)

resim (Franco-Provençal)

roésin (Picard)

roejhén (Walloon)

Unknown origin:

strugure (Romanian)

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From Old French grape (cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes"):

grape (English

grape (Scots)

Literally "wine-berry":

Wiitrybel (Alemannic German)

Weinba/Weinbeer (Upper/Southern German)

vínber (Icelandic)

From Proto-West Germanic *þrūbō ("cluster" or "grape"):

Traube (German)

drue (Danish)

druva (Swedish)

drue (Norwegian)

druif/wijndruif (Dutch)

druif (Afrikaans)

troyb (Yiddish)

Druve/Druuv (Low German)

drúf (West Frisian)

Drauf (Luxembourgish)

[cad-faoi-maeglin]

*grabs you by the shoulders and shakes you violently*

Listen to me, Irish spelling is logical and has rules. Your unfamiliarity with our language does not change that.

BuT tHaT's NoT tHe SoUnD tHoSe LeTtErS mAkE

Yes, it is! That is the sound those letters make! All you're doing is telling me you can't read!

[prokopetz]

All I'm saying is anybody who thinks the Japanese animation industry commits uniquely baffling crimes upon the English language has not properly appreciated what it does to German.

[tis-i-german-potato]

I need everyone to know that the german word for mullet (the hairstyle) isn't a word at all.

It's the equivalent of calling the mullet "Froshbalo" in english.

Why? Because Vokuhila (the German 'word') is simply "Vorne kurz hinten lang" (Front short back long)

I need everyone to know that.

And I will now start calling a mullet a Froshbalo because honestly that word is banging.

[german-enthusiast]

laying in bed, remembering that one of the ways people avoid saying "Scheiße" (shit) after they've already started saying the word is "Schhhheibenkleister" (der Scheibenkleister - the window paste/glue)

[onigiri-studies]

❀ 𝟡𝕥𝕙 𝕞𝕒𝕪 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟜 ❀

Some pics of my notes from today, the other two photos were made a while ago. I barely did anything today, hopefully tomorrow will be a more productive day. Wishing y'all a blessed evening! 🫶🏻✨

[ratatatastic]

maffhew who refuses to say runebergin torttu because he knows hes gonna butcher it so bad he might be kicked out of the country the second he tries and staunchly avoids that by going "the one dessert that barky is going to have to explain 😃"

sasha who gets faced with the most generic description of everything hes ever eaten in his life so far because of maffhew and going "???... oh you mean runebergin torttu!"

"he did good he liked the food and he likes the finland so far so its good" sasha says with so much pride now that all the anxiety has left his system that his husband teammate is enjoying his country and doesnt hate it

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the smile of a man who knowlingly doomed his husband and said husband using all his brain power to context clues his way to whatever the fuck he just got asked that his brain is running hotter than a mid 2012 macbook air thats somehow still alive in the year of the lord 2024 but girl does she chug along shes louder than a fighter jet

[cup-noodle]

the cruelest thing about the world is that there's so many languages and a girl can't learn all of them

[yvanspijk]

Yes, yea, ja

The counterparts of the word yes in the Germanic sister languages end in a vowel, such as German, Dutch, and Swedish ja. This is because ja etymologically corresponds to English yea, a word that in Standard English is used only in voting. It's also used as a noun: 'Senators could fax in their yeas and nays'. Yes has a slightly different origin. Click the graphic to learn more.

[official-rolli-und-rita]

Fucking monstrous that english doesn't have a word for "gute besserung". Where is your "bon rétablissement", your "god bedring"??! i'm sorry but "get well soon" sounds like a threat i am not saying that to my tumblr mutuals whom i love

[ajarofpickledtears]

some of the things that I don't understand with English vs German is how in German it's for example Kakao, but in English cocoa. or Mahagoni and mahogany. ooor Koffein vs caffeine but Kaffee and coffee. like. the a and o shift. and tbh Kaffee and Kaffein or coffee and coffeine would make much more sense so no one judge me for constantly saying Kaffein, it's the English influence abssbab

[zarla-s]

I was talking with my friend yamina about German endearments for these two and she suggested Großer (big boy (fond)) which was too cute, I had to do something with it.

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[onigiri-studies]

❀ 𝟝𝕥𝕙 𝕒𝕦𝕘𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟜 ❀

The first photo was taken when I went to the orthopedist in a nearby city. He told me I needed physiotherapy because of my injury. The pain and the swelling was simply not going away. Today was my first physiotherapy session and my foot already seems to be feeling a little bit better. Wishing y'all a blessed night! 🙏🏻✨

What i did today:

Reviewed the course material for self-efficacy (the job center in my town hosted a free course on self-efficacy)

Read some articles on "der Spiegel"

Listened to the German news on "Deutschlandfunk"

[langvillage]

hello language learners! new this month in the language village, a chill way to practice a little bit every day: the one sentence club! as the title suggests, the idea is to write one sentence in your target language(s) every day. for an extra challenge, especially if your target language uses a different script, try handwriting the sentence too!

join the language village discord server to receive daily reminder pings, get inspiration from a daily question prompt, and participate alongside other one sentence club members!

feel free to tag #langvillage if you post your sentences on tumblr ✨