>tfw Germans don't call themselves German
>To them they are "Deutsch"
>tfw German is literally a made up word that Germans don't consider themselves as
>I know all words are made up but this is freaking me out
>>58015565
>Germany
Teutonia*
>>58015565
Based Caesar called us Germans
>They are Austria
>We call them Hungarden
>Germans don't call themselves Niemcy
Why
They're the ones that got it wrong
English is a Germanic language, m8
>>58015565
You know the Dutch were originally called frogs.
In the Netherlands we call the Netherlands the cold frog country.
But no, you call us Nederlanders Deutsch.
>>58015613
>people in Poland don't call themselves poos
Why
>>58015565
What? You silly bum thought we will call and consider ourselves Japaneezu?
It's 日本人
>Germans deny their alamanic identity
Why?
>>58015663
The Germans that settled in Pennsylvania called themselves Deustch and they were mistaken as Dutch and are now referred to as Pennsylvania Dutch despite being from mostly the Rhinelands.
>>58015667
Excellent post
>>58015565
japs don't call themselfs japs too
>>58015565
>german
>not tysk
>>58015752
What do they call themselves?
Nips?
>guy's from England
>calls himself "Pakistani"
>>58015784
Nippon/Nihon is the country
Nihonjin is a Japanese person
Nihongo is the Japanese language
>>58015667
>Germany
>germ many
>Many Germs
CAN'T MAKE IT UP
>>58015873
>a fucking canadian
every
time
>english: Finns
>finnish: suomalaiset
>>58015904
>a fucking united statesian
>>58015925
>suomalaiset
>literally "swamp people"
gj binlan
>there are people who know all the words I know PLUS alternate versions of all the words I know
multilingualism is crazy to me
>>58015605
We call austrians itävaltalaiset
Rough translation "Itävalta" = East-power
>why
>>58015565
Deusch
>From Old High German diutisk, diutisc (“popular, vernacular”), from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of the people, popular”), an adjective from Proto-Germanic *þeudō (“people”) (compare Old English þeod), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh2.
>>58016038
>he only speaks one language
>>58016076
Deutsch - of people
Deutschland - people's land
yep autistic as fuck
>>58016038
In the Dutch language we also often have a Dutch/German/French/English variant of many words.
A bit like dieren (animals) / beesten (beasts).
>>58016038
I had to learn a language in university.
I picked fucking Swedish.
I have never spoken a word of it out loud since I finished my second class.
I called the 'call sweden' number they have going on just to try to have a convo in Swedish and an immigrant picked up. He didn't know any Swedish at all.
>>58016071
At the least you call them the same thing as the other Germanic.
Aust = east and all that lingual shit
>>58015605
Austria is "Österrike"
"eastern realm"
>>58016038
>avarenge Abo knows more words than Australians
can't make this shit up
>>58015873
So saying nips is literally more proper than saying japanese?
>>58016142
lol
could be worse, Stefan might have picked up your call
>>58015565
No they're called tysk
>>58016142
>an immigrant picked up. He didn't know any Swedish at all.
Europe is dead
>>58016142
There are plenty of places where you can speak Swedish.
Take a look: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_where_Arabic_is_an_official_language
>>58016139
hey windmill hans, I forgot
what's your word for this?
In English it's Tree, in Danish it's Træ, in Norwegian it's Tre, in Swedish it's Träd.
Surely your Germanic language has a similar word for it, right?
>>58015888
>>58016137
>Typical Polish buttblast galore
Literally nothing new to see here
>>58016038
who is this semen demon?
Germans and a whole lot of other countries don't call my country "Canada" they call us "Kanada". FUCK.
>>58016280
It's a boom.
>>58016318
>It's a boom.
>>58016284
>England
>named after some Danish tribe
>Britain
>named after Celt fucking shits
>Commonwealth
>literally "res publica", a Latin term
tbhfamalam
>>58016272
rude
>>58016280
That's a "grönsak"
>>58015565
In spanish they call it Alemania
>>58016310
ahahah kanadick
>>58015565
>Germans
>Deutsch
Heмци :^)
>>58016142
if you ever travel to norway and need to eat at a restaurant you'll be primed and ready to place your order
>>58016327
In german its Baum.
They have just some unholy german+english+potato language
>>58016142
Seriously tho I'm learning Swedish if you want someone to practice with...
>>58015565
>Germans
Nemcy, mute people, barbarians.
>>58016327
Why can't we all just refer to each others countries as it is in their language tb h? Why does it have to be so annoying
>>58015565
IN THE COURT OF THE PEPE KING
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>58015663
>Dutchies are frogs
Good, so we can anschluss you.
>>58016407
Varför skulle man vilja lära sig svenska när man inte bor i Sverige?
>>58016392
that's actually related to why I picked swedish because they didn't offer norwegian
your work visa system gives priority to people who know a nordic council approved language
>>58016472
skandibooism
>>58016445
because some countries call themselves using sounds largely unknown to other nations
for example United States of America, we have to learn this shit, can't just say Junajted Stejts of Ameryka
>>58016318
BAUM
A
U
M
>>58016038
I want to learn because I think it'd be really fucking cool. Trying Japanese right now senpai.
>>58016280
Baum :3
>Poland
>not Wendland
Why is this allowed?
Both Germani and Alemanni were germanic tribes living in modern day Germany, in some languages they become the name for all the people living there
>>58016280
actually Poles are Vandal (East Germanic) and this plant is called DRZEWO
>>58016403
It gets funny sometimes.
>>58015565
>Germany
>not Vokietija
>>58015565
And now you realize why people say Charlemagne is a German. The faillure to separate between Germans and Germanics is a fatal flaw of the English language.
>>58015604
Caesar called everyone beyond the rhine Germans. "German" meant something among the line of "neighboring people", or those who lived along the Roman frontier.
>Speaks English
>Not Anglo flag
Is this a CIA website or something
>>58016007
nobody actually knows the etymology of suomi, swamp land (suomaa) is one hypothesis but quite unlikely since finnic peoples have lived here for over 8000 years
>>58016472
I visit every year and I'd like to emigrate one day
>>58016497
>man är exotiskt för jänkare
fan fan fan
>Germany
>not eastern France and western Poland
>>58015565
Because they aren't Germans and have nothing to do with Germanic tribes lol.
>>58016600
>Lithuania
>not Memelland
>>58016578
In german bekommen = to get something
Its always funny when germans become a steak in restaurant etc
>>58016623
Were do you visit and are you germanic?
Why do people whine when we say WE WUZ GERMANIC TRIBES N SHEIT but no one bats an eye when the Dutch say WE WUZ FRANKS or the French say WE WUZ GAULS?
>>58016310
kanada is also a meme in finland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnWc0_ddn04
>>58016651
But we are Meme land ;^)
>>58016651
It's just a small region of Lithuania, when will you learn.
>>58016665
In Dutch we say krijgen. You know, like in waging war. That's how you get something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yHqnVMe54g
>JYLLENHEILE
>>58016328
>England
>named after some Danish tribe
Nah, it's "land of meadows", isn't it? Eng = meadow in Scandinavian languages.
>>58015565
Have you heard about the "Finns"? Back before Finland became it's own thing, Finn (or finnan) was the name for the Sami. Finn means find, which they were named because they lived nomadic hunter gatherer lifestyles, and had to find their food.
When the Soumi (what the Finns call themselves) got their own nation, the Swedes called it Finland and the other finns was called Sami.
>>58016310
Labas, Kanada. Kaip sekasi? :DDD
>>58016472
eftersom det är obligatoriskt i skolan t. finländare
>>58016679
not him but I've been to Denmark and everyone assumed I was a local until I started speaking.
I'm 6'3, ghostly pale white, blond haired, blue eyed etc
I thought danish people really hated foreigners at first from watching them interact, then I realized they're just racist and they were hating the brown people for being brown.
Good country, would visit again.
>>58016724
We also have this
Krieg = War
kriegen = to get something
In English a loan is a debt.
In Dutch a loon is a wage.
Coincidence?
>>58016735
Germanic tribes which cucked Celtic Britons were Angles (of Angeln), Saxons (of Saxony) and Jutes (of Jylland)
for some reason their new British lands were called after Angles even though Old English was pretty much a dialect of Saxon
It's probable that German meant spear man
>>58016727
thats some proper cringe
>>58016679
I stay in Sigtuna with a friend. Most of my ancestors were French and my surname is French.
Do people outside of Germany actually say verboten or is it a special snowflake word?
>>58016735
Nah it comes from the tribe of the angles, from modern day southern denmark
>>58016844
Verboden (Dutch)
Forbidden (English)
>>58016844
My German friend says it all the time when I ask if he wants a ham sandwich
![Actor-Mehcad-Brooks-Amalie-Wichmann-attended-Weinstein[2].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/K2BwoOv.jpg "Actor-Mehcad-Brooks-Amalie-Wichmann-attended-Weinstein[2].jpg")
>>58016773
This Dane loves the black cock., as do all Scandi women who visit LA.
>>58016771
Bra, och så ska det fortsätta tills Finland åter är anslutna till kungadömet.
>>58016773
Yes, people only dislike arabs and negros.
>mfw Midwesterners took the German "Komm mit" and translated it into "Come with"
Sounds pretty retarded in English ngl
>>58016837
Ah, the shit-part of the country then
>>58016882
Holy shit you again
>>58016828
this seems likely t b h
Hrothgar from Beowulf(modern roger?) means 'spear bearer', doesn't it?
>>58016874
VERBOTEN IS A GERMAN WORD
REEEEEE
KANKERHOLLÄNDER OUT
>>58016881
That wasn't half bad Nige.
>>58016874
>>58016844
Förbjudet
>>58016953
hwæt
We Gardena in geardagum,
þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.
Gardena - "spear Danes", I assume it's a nickname
>>58016991
Sorry, pardon, excuses, excuseer mij, het spijt mij.
Yes, it spites me.
>>58016925
I like it. I've never been outside of Stockholm county though.
Is English closer to German or Scandi languages?
>>58016991
also in swedish, "förbjuden"
>>58017080
dutch or frisian
>>58017054
What came first, Dutch or German? Genuinely interested.
>>58017080
technically to German but Danelaw enriched their vocabulary with words such as "they"
even before Frenchmen cucked them Anglo-Saxons spoke a fucking cumdump of Germanic dialects
>>58017080
grammarwise/capitalization I'd say scandi
german has all kinds of weird rules
>>58017077
Yeah, the shit part of the country
Götaland > allt annat
>>58017127
That reminds me. We also have verontschuldiging.
Dutch is older than German in general. Plus German had the consonant shift. But both come from the same local languages I guess.
>>58016379
>>58016750
REEEEEEEEEEE
>>58016695
What isn't a meme in Finland?
>>58016318
>in the netherlands children play with boomsticks
>>58017080
Scandi comes from german, so i guess german
![languages900ce[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/b1QMwaH.gif "languages900ce[1].gif")
>What came first
Did you sleep at history class or did you stop visiting after primary school?
There was no """the german language"""
>>58017080
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages#Diachronic
Dutch stayed more true to it's Frankish roots than German.
>>58017286
>what is old German
>>58017080
I tried learning German for a while and I'm currently learning Swedish, I have to go with Scandi languages tb h. At least in my experience Swedish has been 10x easier for me to pick up than German
>>58016724
>>58016777
The German and Dutch words ‘liegen’ both translate to English ‘to lie’. However, the German one has the meaning of ‘to lie on something’ while the Dutch one means ‘to tell lies’.
>>58017424
We don't have any stupid rules like German have, so that's make sense to think it's easier
>>58017424
HALLO
IK DRINK WATER EN EET BROOD :D :D
>>58016328
>Commonwealth
>literally "res publica", a Latin term
Wouldn't it literally translate to 'public cause'?
there is literally no reason for dutch to even exist
it's 90% similar to English and there's nowhere near enough people speaking it to be worth using.
>>58017482
All three languages have a bit of the same words for that though. Not really that much of a false friend. Just a bit.
English - Dutch - German
laying - liggen - liegen
Lieing - liegen - lügen
>>58017534
res can mean thing, cause, wealth
what is amusing Poles borrowed this word from Latin literally - rzecz can mean thing, cause and wealth, just as Latin res
>>58017604
>Lieing
lying
Fucking English, how does it work.
>>58016328
Dude we literally were called Lechistan though.
Meaning country of Lech.
>>58017534
>>58017640
"Res" primarily means "matter/thing"
The most direct translation would be "Matter of Public" or "Public matter"
>>58016071
Itävalta is more like East Realm or East Empire, which is a literal translation of Österreich. So there's nothing weird in that name.
>>58017643
well it's partly Dutchmen's fault
English writing system is a weird mixture of French, Latin and Saxon writing system as interpreted by mostly Dutch printers
>>58017244
>Scandi comes from german
That doesn't even make sense.
>>58017604
The difference between to lie and to lay is the following I think:
I'll lie down
Lay it down over here
Lay is always followed by an object. At least that's what I think.
>>58015565
DUDE GERMANIC TRIBES LMAO
>>58017754
It's like German legen/lügen and Dutch leggen/liggen. You lay an object but a person lies down.
>>58017831
>Huns and Avars retreat
>Germanics are weakened
>some subhumans from Prypeć swamps settle in
>"we wuz Wends n shieeeet"
slavs are a fucking joke
>>58017937
Love this swamp meme.
That theory was already debunked.
>>58017996
by whom? muh haploshit? haploshit-wise people of Central Europe are the same since ever, culture-wise slavs stepped in after Avars and Huns retreated
>>58017589
23 million native speakers in Europe. Most European languages are smaller.
+ some Caribbean speakers
Plus as a bonus we have Afrikaans, which is barely it's own language because it's more than 90% the same.
+ 7 million Afrikaans speakers.
+ 10 million people for who Afrikaans is not their main language, but the lingua franca
>>58016571
> English in charge of being a Germanic language
>>58018083
No, you fucking retard.
By actual science and archaeological discoveries.
>>58018119
>archeology
>science
go on quote your sources
>>58015698
>maybe a tenth of the country has Alemannic origins
>let's call them Allemand
>>58018300
>tfw Alemannic
>>58018300
You're not fooling us. It clearly says alle mann.
>>58017080
scandi
they probably share about the same amount of 'close' words, but scandi languages and english have closer grammar which is very important
german maintained its grammar that as far as I know, no other germanic language did. I only know Swedish and English, but the grammar is very similar.
There's an ongoing debate to make English a North Germanic language, but language classifications are generally for historical reasons.
Jan Terje Faarlund, a laureate linguist, has written papers on this and wants it to be classified as such. I think "English: The Language of the Vikings" is the 'best' paper he's written on the subject.
>>58018096
>+ some Caribbean speakers
Literally under a million.
>Plus as a bonus we have Afrikaans
Plus as a bonus, Spanish has Italian speakers.
I know /int/ is retardo-nationalist, but Dutch nationalism is especially retarded.
>>58018300
You mean like how France was named after the Franks? Or England after the Angles? Or Mexico after the Mexica? Many countries are named after their dominant tribe.
>>58018425
did Faarlung consider the pre-Danelaw/post-Danelaw shift as vital or is it more diachronic in nature, more systematic
>>58018511
wow such difference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Q4ZMmw0bk
>>58018511
We're called Allemagne because Chlodwig encountered the Alemannic tribes when he was fighting to unit the Frankish Empire. The most dominant tribe were the Saxons.
>>58018536
>did Faarlung consider the pre-Danelaw/post-Danelaw shift as vital
yes
he claims that old english 'died out' and the english spoken now was just heavily influenced by old english but is a north germanic language
>>58018511
It's literally the same shit with different suffixes and they have less words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZRw9NiVUuM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwAu5npAEdI
>>58018680
interdasting theory
gonna read this book thanks anon
Albanians also dont call themselves anyththing close to "Albanian"
They are shqiptars or something
>>58017127
Dutch and German are part of the same dialect continuum. They're just different standards/localizations of it.
>>58018792
I just refer to them as mudslim.
>>58018704
Even Dutch dialects like Limburgish are more different from regular Dutch than Afrikaans.
I mean, nobody in the Nederdraad can understand this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gGKVW51gR4
>>58017890
>legen/lügen
You mean legen/liegen?
>>58016142
hhahahahaahahahahaaha why the would you pick Swedish hahaha lol you stupid fucking asshole hahahahahahaha jesus christ i cant stop laughing literally lmfao
>>58018987
oförskämt
>>58018987
Indeed, Somali is way more useful.
>>58018704
>>58018930
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_similarity
Spanish and Portuguese have a lexical similarity of 89%. Lexical similarities of 85% or higher means the languages are more comparable to dialects of eachother. Yet neither the Spanish nor the Portuguese are pathetic enough to include eachother when discussing how many people on earth speak their respective languages.
Stop being desperate.
>>58019130
>English and German 60%
Yet the words are much further apart. English and German barely resemble each other. With Afrikaans they literally use the Dutch stem for words, while we add suffixes. That's quite a difference.
>>58019130
>Percentages higher than 85% usually indicate that the two languages being compared are likely to be related dialects
ok
>>58017080
Probably the Scandinavian languages.
Most of the time you don't even have to change the word order, you just replace the words with (often slightly different) words.
>>58019130
protip - "languages" is a literal meme invented for political clarity, it's more appropriate to speak of dialect continuum
>learn Austrian German because I went to school there for four years as a kid
>can't stop greeting people with "grüß gott" (the most common way of saying hello in Austria and I think Bavaria too) when visiting Germany
>everybody thinks I'm retarded or a religious nut
it's like if a Mexican walked up to an employee at a restaurant in America and said "g'day mate" in heavily accented English
we dont call ourselfs croats
>>58019363
It's unusual outside of Bavaria. Bavaria is the best part of Germany however so it's fine.
Wo in Österreich hast du gelebt?
>>58019363
>"g'day mate"
just so you know, this is associated with australians and not brits
>>58019363
I recently went to Austria as well. And gruss gott sounded a bit like hail hitler to me. You know, hailing the big boss.
>>58019473
That's an astute observation but also indicates you probably spend too much time on /pol/
>>58019363
It's more like you go to America and greet everyone with: "God save the Queen".
>>58019130
>German and French higher than English and French
>>58016620
Another theory is thät suomalainen comes from hämäläiset, the baltic finnic tribe which populate(d) the areas around the gulf of Bothnia and inner Finland, way up to the north where they came to be known as Kvens to the scandinavians and to the east, where the border was the Karelian/Novgorodian territory
hämäläinen
-
sämäläinen
suomalainen - saamelainen
>Groot is dutch for big
>tfw all the tree man in guardians of the galaxy said was I'm a big guy
>>58019580
Karl der Grosse > Charlemagne
>>58019614
So in a nutshell the inhabitants of Finland are hämäläiset from which the term suomalaiset has probably come. Truly a powerhouse of a tribe
>>58019459
I know, I was just trying to come up with the most ridiculous scenario. I'm American, anyway.
>>58019457
Wien, für Arbeit meines Vaters. meine Freundin ist auch österreichische. Mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht aus dem internet, aber ich weiß genug um zu überleben dort.
>>58016184
I find it very strange that a country would decide to call itself the 'eastern realm'. I mean, if they decided themselves, why would they consider THEMSELVES eastern? And if they adopted their name from what others called them - how many countries actually do that?
>>58019363
I had the problem of wanting to say the Swiss form "grüezi" to Germans after I lived in Switzerland.
I like the phrase though. Standard German kind of lacks a somewhat formal greeting other than "guten Tag".
>>58019985
even they knew that their country was just a fake country and they're really just germany under the wrong flag
>>58019985
>I find it very strange that a country would decide to call itself the 'eastern realm'.
I think it was originally Östermark, or Eastern Marsh. The Germans (or was it Charlemagne?) designated that as the Eastern marsh of their realm (just like they had the Spanish marsh) ie. a frontier territory used for defensive purposes against the enemy. After everything collapsed the name stuck.
>>58019993
Hallo
>>58019363
>grüß gott
kek. Sounds very 'ye olde' speak
>>58020120
Sure, but it's less formal.
>>58019985
It was the Easternmost of various Germanic tribes/states/districts within the HRE and was basically the frontier with the Hungarian barbarians so that's where it came from.
Of course that happened nearly a millenium ago when nation states didn't exist and the HRE was still fairly powerful so it made sense then.
>>58020333
In Dutch you can replace every greeting with hoi (from ahoy).
Hoi! Hoi. Hoi hoi! Hoooi!
Hoi allemaal (Hey all).
>>58016991
Assuming that guy is from Holland and not Friesland or Limburg.
German education everyone. Dumbass.
>>58017640
>rzecz
sczsczszczszczszczszc
>>58019732
shut yo ass cracka
dis nigga name be charle da mane
>>58020318
German and especially Austrian German has a lot of moments where you realize out of the blue that you're speaking like a person in the middle ages if you're a native English speaker. The word for the bill at a restaurant translates as "the reckoning", which I think is awesome.
>>58020424
It's the same with Swedish. There's no situation in which "hej" is insufficiently formal.
I've got the impression that German-speakers are more strict with these things.
>>58020449
Holländer is a generic term for Dutch people though.
>>58020424
Alternatively, hoi can also be used to say goodbye, yet this is less commonly done.
>>58020585
>There's no situation in which "hej" is insufficiently formal.
I remember being taught another greeting to greet older people with that thought 'hej' was informal but I forget what it was.
>>58020424
>Hoi! Hoi. Hoi hoi! Hoooi!
Is this related?
https://youtu.be/SWleZY-8evw
Who the hell came up with Sweden, anyway?
It's Svea rike
>>58020577
>mfw I asked for the konto because I thought the german word for rekening was konto
>>58015565
I don't even know where 'Pinoy' originated from.
>>58020585
>I've got the impression that German-speakers are more strict with these things.
It depends on the setting.
>>58020742
Swedish empire?
>>58019580
The only way that would make sense is if they used every word in the dictionary and didn't weigh how common the words are.
Maybe we have more loan words from French but we certainly don't use them often in day to day conversation.
>>58020691
Goddag?
>>58020752
I love that I can understand every piece of signage and every restaurant menu in the Netherlands with even basic knowledge of German. I have the feeling you people could become fluent speakers in a week if you tried.
>>58020120
>not saying Servus
lmoa
>>58020737
apparently it is
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ahoy-hoy
>which in its turn is derived from Dutch "hoi" meaning "hi".
>>58020691
Probably "god dag". You can still say that, but it's too formal in most situations if used unironically.
>>58020742
We used to call you Swedeland
>>58020824
But it's svea
>>58020994
sven
>>58016617
>Caesar called everyone beyond the rhine Germans. "German" meant something among the line of "neighboring people", or those who lived along the Roman frontier.
This is bullshit.
Caesar names quite a lot of different Germanic tribes in his book about the Gallic Wars.
>>58015565
>Deutsch
Never heard of Deutsche Bank? Wtf
>Germans
Nemci*
>>58020742
It's taken from Dutch. English used to refer to Sweden as Sweoland or Sweorice but switched to Sweden to refer to the Empire.
>>58022522
>ekavica
disgusting
>>58016844
Forbudt
>>58019473
It's actually short for "Grüß' dich/euch Gott", meaning "may god greet you".
>>58022320
>tfw 100% Roman heritage
I wuz Kaiser and shit, look at that border!
>>58017244
this is completely wrong
>>58015565
It's not complicated, "Germany" as we know it is from the Latin "Germania", from the French word the English language adopted.
Deutschland is the Germanic-derived word from it, if we still retained our word for the place, we'd call it Theedland I believe.
>>58016218
You don't know nips is an abbreviation from Nippon?
>>58020577
>learning German
>do so because I know English and German are both West Germanic languages and I should have an easier time learning it since I don't need to contort the way of thinking so hard
>learn that "you" is "sie"
>wonder where the relationship is
>realize "yee" and "sie" sound phonetically similar
Was pretty cool to realize the connection
I hope to major in linguistic anthropology soon
>>58023905
>"you" is "sie"
This is wrong.
inb4 >but muh polite speech
In polite speech you are indirectly addressing someone in third person plural.
"You" is not "sie" or "Sie".
>>58019235
We do resemble each other, but that comes from linguistic features as opposed to actual word translations
>>58023905
There's two kinds of (You) in German. Sie is formal, while Du is less formal. Think of the difference between tu and usted in Spanish.
>>58024054
Denk daran, dass "Sie" bloß die dritte Person plural ist. Es ist höflicher sein Gegenüber indirekt anzusprechen.
>>58024054
>>58024017
Ah, like how "wo bist du" means "where are you"? I began to wonder about this, I'm not into any real fluency yet.
Danke Deutsch freunde
>>58022320
>Germania Superior
>Germania Inferior
Even the Romans knew the Dutch are subhumans
>>58024253
Ich - I
Du - Thou
Er / Sie / Es - He / She / It
Wir - We
Ihr - You
Sie - They
Polite speech "Sie" is basically the same as addressing someone with "they".
>>58024315
>Du - Thou
wut
>>58024385
Selbe Wurzel.
In Isländisch ist es þu "thu", in Norwegisch ist es "du"; in Latein ist es "tu". Offensichtliche Kognanten.
>>58024017
Actually, English speakers adopted their polite form as the norm.
German Dutch English
du = je / jij = ye
du = jou = thou
Sie = u = you
>>58024385
Thou is a now unused word for "you" that I realize really does translate directly with Sie. It's not used because you'd like like you're trying to roleplay the middle ages if you did use it.
>>58024510
But the English "you" is second person plural, which took over the 2. person singular "thou".
In German there is a polite speech form of second person plural, but it is not used except for games with a historical context. Our polite speech is third person plural (grammatically).
>>58024586
thou != Sie
You don't seem to understand.
>>58024634
u and you can also be plural
>>58024686
"you" has always been plural.
>>58024315
Funny how you use the third person form to be polite. The second person plural (Ni) has the same purpose in Swedish, although it is rarely used anymore.
>>58024686
To be honest, now i think about it I have no idea what you mean with second and third person plural. My German isn't that sharp anymore.
>>58024729
We used to have a variety of ways for addressing people.
There is still the 2nd person plural as in "Your majesty" - "Euer Majästet", but that's not by the common people to refer to each other. We use 3rd person plural for that.
The 2nd Person plural is only used in medieval settings in games nowadays.
>>58024634
i see
>>58016773
Hvis du kan svensk, er der ikke langt til dansk.
Jeg garanterer, vi er langt bedre end Sverige!
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>>58015824
>>58024855
>"Your majesty" - "Euer Majästet", but that's not by the common people to refer to each other.
*Euer Majestät, but that's not for the common people, they refer to each other with 3rd Person plural.
I need to reread my sentences before posting.
>>58024855
We have the same thing with "ers majestät". You can of course also indirectly refer to people in singular by their titles, as in English and I think also German.
>>58017482
I thought it was lügen in German?
>>58017482
>>58025314
to lie - liegen (resting)
to lie - lügen (telling false information)
>>58016071
Österreich you ignorant pleb
>>58025283
When speaking face to face with a monarch, you have to use 2nd person plural.
When speaking about a monarch, you use his title in 3rd person singular as you normally would.
>Seine Majestät König Carl XVI. Gustaf hat dies getan
>>58024634
I just looked it up. The Dutch u is indeed second person and not third.
