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SOME OF MY FAVOURITE GERMAN WORDS & EXPRESSIONS

die Qual der Wahl - when you can’t decide between options (lit: the torment of choice)  den Löffel abgeben - to die (lit: to pass the spoon) mit dem ist nicht gut Kirschen essen - he is not easy to deal with, you shouldn’t upset him (lit: it’s not good to eat cherries with him) Schmetterlinge im Bauch haben - the fluttery feeling in your stomach when you have a crush (lit: to have butterflies in one’s stomach) blau machen - to skip class/work (lit: to make blue) sich aus dem Staub machen - to flee, to bolt (lit: to make oneself out of the dust) sich von jemand eine Scheibe abschneiden - to be more like someone (lit: to cut a slice off of someone) Geh doch dahin wo der Pfeffer wächst! - Piss off! (lit: Go where the pepper grows!) hinter schwedische Gardinen - behind bars (lit: behind Swedish curtains) das Affentheater / der Affenzirkus - a charade (lit: monkey theatre / monkey circus) jemandem etwas auf die Nase binden - to convince someone of a lie (lit: to bind something on someone’s nose) kein Schwein - nobody (lit: no pig) hundemüde sein - to be exhausted (lit: to be dog tired) jemandem Honig ums Maul schmieren - to butter sb up (lit: to smear honey around sb’s mouth) das Tohuwabohu - chaos dasselbe in Grün - the same thing with a different appearance (lit: the same in green) einen Korb geben / bekommen - to reject someone / to be rejected (lit: to give/receive a basket) auf den Keks/Zeiger gehen - to annoy (lit: to go on the cookie/clockhand)

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please... if you’re going to attempt to speak in “old” english

THOU is the subject (Thou art…) THEE is the object (I look at thee) THY is for words beginning in a consonant (Thy dog) THINE is for words beginning in a vowel (Thine eyes)

this has been a psa

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Super blue blood moon rises behind Parthenon, in Athens January 2018

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Marlon Brando at age 23 during a screen test for Rebel Without a Cause. 

“Shakespeare said: “There is no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” And there should be such an art. When the camera is close on you, your face becomes the stage. Your face is the proscenium arch of the theater, thirty feet high. And it sees all the little movements of the face and the eye and the mouth.” – Marlon Brando

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Batman Returns (1992) dir. Tim Burton

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The power to kill can be just as satisfying as the power to create.

Rope (1948, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

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James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

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My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant

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Ella Fitzgerald performs at Mr Kelly’s nightclub, Chicago, Illinois, 1958

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James Dean photographed by Phil Stern, 1955.

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Min & Max Trailer

Release Date: 25 Nov 2016

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the wolfgang bogdanow theme song

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Reasons to learn German

you can take questioning your life choices even further with the 6 different words for why

forget a word? just make a new one!!!

so that you can then learn german dialects which will constantly make you cry / lose the will to live / ruin your life

for the quality tunes such as atemlos durch die nacht👌👌👌👌👌

to spend your nights trying to pronounce ch and r and losing all of your dignity in the process

prepositions that make no sense

you can make your own bullshit ‘in german there is a word for this very specific thing’ post

don’t feel like people tell you that german is a violent language often enough? start learning it!!!

word order that will either be really easy for you to understand or the cause of all your nightmares from now on

to be able to read the absolute joy that is kafka

words that do what they say on the tin

anything can be an adjective if you try hard enough

sentences that are half a page long

bc it’s german!!!!! 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

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