Brit Reacts to 20 German Words that sound ENGLISH 

99% in Germany and Austria say Dackel, not Dachshund. My mom is german, my father austrian and i never ever heard someone referring to a Dackel as 'Wiener Dog'

German Kindergarten and American kindergarten is NOT the same, it's like the British nursery, but not the year before 1st grade - that would be called Vorschule. Kindergärten are completely separate from schools, unlike US kindergartens.

We say Dackel for Dachshund. Alles für den Dackel, alles für den Club.....😂Who gets the reference?😅

Related to *Angst* we can look at: *Fear* Old English *færan* Old Saxon (Old low German): *faron* German today: Ge- *fahr* _(Gefahr)_

My goodness I'm from Hull & i'm 39 this year & we do actually use 99% of these words in England!! i've heard dozens upon dozens of people here use them all often, all of my life! I was shocked when you said we don't use this word, or that word, when yes we do! There was literally about 2 or 3 we don't, or don't often! The rest we certainly do!! I use these all myself often!

Another word which was taken "in new days" from german to english is: *Backpack > Back+pack/bag* > *Rucksack* > Ruck short form of *Rücken* which means "someones "back"" + sack = Bag/Pack *Backpack* = *Ruck/back+Sack/Bag;Pack

The newest German word that Brits have adopted is 'Zeitenwende'

Many of these words, like Schadenfreude, Angst, Wanderlust, Zeitgeist and so forth, are used mostly in academic/educated contexts, when discussing psychological states that the English just does not have good words for. You can trust on Germans to have words for even the most bizarre things, mostly by creating compounds of already existing words.

*poodle* - from german Pudel, literally meaning “puddle” *pretzel* - orgin from german *Brezel* *noodle* - orgin from german *Nudel* > As you may noticed, like at the word *"stool-stuhl",* you can pretty much switch in english *"-oo"* with a german *"-u" or "-uh"* to find the context of each sides word(s) ;)

Foosball or Tischfussball can also be called Kicker.

When he translated "Kindergarten" with "Ruhestörung", it was a joke, because it means "disturbance of the peace" (or literally of the silence).

45 million US citizens have german ancestors, so it`s not unusual that all these words found there way in the daily laguage.

Schnaps can often be a false friend. In English it can be any alcohol that you would drink out of small glasses, in German it is a distinct group of unflavoured, uncoloured distillation of wheat or rye, typically 38-45% alc. Any flavoured or coloured version would be "Liqueur". And then there are other names connecting to the orinin or other things like Cognac, Calvados, Grappa, Wodka, ...

in a Beer context 'Stein' (which btw. means Stone, just like in RammSTEIN or EinSTEIN or NeuschwanSTEIN) comes from traditional beer mug made out of stoneware - and it also exists still in Germany. Some Germans (depending on the region and also maybe on the generation) dont know that it exists. But many Germans also dont know that Franken/Bayern, FRANKfurt and France/French have the same name for a reason.

2:30 Bit of an error on their part (but you already know this from another video): a German Kindergarten is more like a day care (nursery sounds like it'd be the same thing) whereas the American kindergarten refers to actual school, just like a preparatory year before first grade. In Germany, a Kindergarten might offer that but that'd be referred to specifically as Vorschule (literally: preschool) and I don't know if it's an entire year or just a short thing. I didn't go there anyways, don't think many do (Vorschule, that is, although Kindergärten (pl.) supposedly don't have enough spots to accept most children, these days). 3:40 Yup, although some people have never heard it there either. As far as I know, the German loan words that are used are different, depending on the region of the US. Although I've never heard anyone from the US pronounce it like the American did here. Actually sounds pretty close to how I say it in my err ideolect, I guess. Stool is not a loanword, it's just cognate between English and German. This should go all the way back to before the West Germanic languages split into different branches. It's like house and Haus. Or grass and Gras. Stuff like that. Edit: All of these are used in the US, btw. It's just that it's regional and perhaps generational, like I mentioned above.

Heyo Dwayne. i wanna recommend the video "How anyone (including you) can read german" by RobWords Makes you be able to understand more than just swear words and shows how similar words can be and why. And its a fellow brit afaik. :3

7:30 Steinglass in Germany is called: mostly "Bierkrug", then "Humpen", "(Bier)Bembel", "Bierseidel", "Krügel", "Steinkrug"... It depends on the dialect/or accent and region of Germany.

Gesundheit is also used in New Zealand

You really lighted up when you remembered your Grandmother 🙂

A lot of German words entered American English via Yiddish. Yiddish is a predominately West German pidgin language with substrata from Slavic, Romance, and Hebrew-Aramaic languages. It originated about 1000 years ago when the HRE pressed into Eastern and Southeastern Europe. It was the Jewish lingua franca from Russia to Serbia to the Netherlands. Many cities in this area had a mixture of citizens from different origins. E.g. Prague had many Jews, Germans, and Czechs, all speaking their own language, and communicating with each other. Even a city as far east as Lviv (German Lemberg) in Ukraine had large German and Jewish communities. This steady contact between German dialects and Yiddish kept Yiddish closer to German than it would have been without the contact. Since the invention of the printing press with movable letters the standardization of German into "Hochdeutsch" and the flood of German books printed in this variety many words, sayings, and even some grammatical features were adapted into Yiddish. Though spoken Yiddish is not that easy to understand for me as a German from the Southwest of Germany, I can understand a lot of written Yiddish (including the Slavic and Romance parts as I studied Russian and French in school as well as Slovenian in university). Only words originating in Hebrew and Aramaic are incomprehensible. Examples of German words that probably came via Yiddish are "kaput(t)", "Gesundheit", "Spiel", "Kitsch", and "Schmutz". A Stein is a 1-liter mug (originally made of stoneware but nowadays mostly of glass) in my area's dialect. It came to the US either via the Pennsylvania Dutch (they were from all over the Rhine River Valley and spoke the dialect of my area) or via the many American soldiers stationed there since 1945. "Stool" and "Stuhl" are cognates from common West German times. They have a common ancestor and diverged in pronunciation, spelling, and meaning.

Yes, Fuss (Fuß) means foot so Fußball is football

English (171.000) words German (5.13mio) words Do you know that 😅🤣

yep we call Football 'Fussball'. And Table Football/Tisch Fussball (or Kicker). Apropos: the Euro Cup 2024 started recently in Germany. If a strong teams like Spain or France lost 5:0 to an on paper inferior team then 'Schadenfreude' might be a thing ...

The first kindergarten was in Germany, so the term is used worldwide. I've heard the words a lot in English and US movies.

Kindergarten is NOT Nursery. 'Nursery' is French and based on Latin (nutrire) and means 'Suckling' (German: Saeugling) = a Baby. Thats in UK for the age of 1-3 years which is in Germany a 'Kindergrippe' (or as newer generic used term a special Baby Kindertagestaette/Kinderpflegestaette) while the Kindergarten as such starts with 3 years = in UK rather a preschool (Vorschule). Now, Germany also has a preschool (Vorschule) but its for Kinder with the age of 5 (one year before regular school).

Foosball: The Table with the figures on sliding bars is called "Kicker" here in Northern Germany, sometimes "Tischfußball", but the verb would be "krökeln". Soccer is Fußball in German.

10:12 In Germany we call this dog breed "Dackel". Dachshund is the official but old name, as they were used to hunt "Dachse" = Badgers or "Marder" = "Marten"

Why is this German guy to the right sipping his coffee in every scene? Ok, at the end I assume his cup was empty. :-) ....sitting on the chair with crossed legs like a know-it-all and making jokes about "Kindergarten", but does not explain what he meant. ...yeee,. I'm so funny and cooooool. ....btw: As you can see on my terrible grammar: Yes, I'm German as well :-)

Stuhl (stool) is also a word for feces in German. "Stuhlgang" is the polite word for the process of sitting on the toilet and doing your business.

A lot were adopted in English due to them being 'new' concepts in psychoanalysis used by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Others similarly due to German philosophers. Why create a whole new English word when there's already a new German word for a concept?

Fun fact about the phrase 'Gesundheit'-bless you. Germans use it to wish somebody else recovery from a potential disease. But originally it was used to keep the potential disease away from yourself. With love from Germany ❤🤘🏻

A "Beer Glas with a Handle" is in German known as a "Krug". There is a pottery Version called "Steinkrug". Maybe it originated from that.

Stool (ger Stuhl) is used as a more elaborated term for shit/faeces as well in Germany.

Shure you use Spiel in Britain. Do you perhaps remember Mike Oldfield calling up various instruments that come in on Tubular Bells (20:37)? Glockenspiel...

"Schadefreude", For example, if people are watching fail-compilations and laughing about the fails, I think this fits more to the meaning of "Schadenfreude"

Where I grew up in Germany Kitsch would rather be something very like over-the-top, exaggerated and often ugly like idk golden toilet paper or a golden frame around your flatscreen just to show off There is also an adjective „kitschig“ which would be used in a over-the-top situation like there is that new girl at school, in the hallway she drops a book, you both reach out to it, your hands touch and its love on first sight like in a totally obvious movie scene

Nobody says "Stein glass" in German. But you can tell where the name comes from. It comes from the material it is made of: earthenware which means "Steingut" in German. Germans call it "Steinkrug" or simply "(Bier-)Humpen" or - more sophisticated- "Bierseidel".

They could've also written the original German spelling on screen, like Spiel, Stuhl, Nudel, etc. Stein comes from Bavaria and the Oktoberfest beer mug/beer stone. Some words are also only used in specific contexts or as an exaggeration of the English word, I.e. broken vs kaputt, someone playing games vs _having_ a spiel (typically w/ selfish outcome) That's the difference between click bait and educational content.

Some of these words are also used in the Netherlands.

In Australia they say early childcare instead of kindergaten. I call a Dachshund Dackel, anyone else? Tichfußball: Kicker, Krökeln... (Fußball = Football; the ß is like ponounced like a double s)

"Stein" means 1 liter - 1/2 liter is called "Schoppen" (speak: shoppn). In Rhineland-Palatinate it's called "Stein", in Bavaria it's called "Maß". Both mean the same= 1 liter beer.

No one says steinglas in germany when its used its a steinkrug a steinjug ,the typical bavarian jugs, but usual most people just call it krug or bierkrug

2:57: It's the American accent. Like "Aydennedy" for "identity"

It's funny when you said you don't use the word kindergarten. The first time I heard the word being used in the english language was at a Welsh school 😅 For the "Tischfußball" in my area we mostly say "Kicker" actually. Also never heard the word kitsch used for stuff that is unnecessary 🤔

Since German and English come from the same proto-language, it is only logical that there are similarities, especially when it comes to pronunciation. But it doesn't mean that Stool is a German word. Exceptions are Angst, Doppelganger and Kindergarten. A good example is the Bär, especially if you convert the ä into ae English=Bear German=Baer

The German words in US English cam from the early German emigrants.

Pretty interesting, this 4way comparison.

Many of this words come from 1) psychology (thank to Sigmund Freud), 2) parapsychology = doppelgänger / poltergeist, or 3) from jiddish.

Stuhl = Stool Stuhlgang = Stool+corridor > The passing "corridor" until it exit with the "stool/stuhl" (sh!t). ;)

I am German!

Hi, Dwayne! Hm. We don`t say "Dachshund" acutally. We say "Dackel". Maybe it depends on the region in Germany. I just know Dackel! Soccer/ or in this case Football is the german "Fußball". A "foot" is a "Fuß". And Football should be played with the feet! So it makes sence. (I don`t know why americans call their american football "football". They don`t play it with their feet..... Brits also say soccer, right? 🤔 Strange.....😅 I once knew an old lady who always had "Kräutermännle", a sort of herbs based Schnaps that should be good for everything! 😂. The word "Kräutermännle" could be translatet word to word with "herbs-little-man"/ or little herbs man. "Männle" is a cute form of man, spoken in a local dialect.

Not daycare, hmmm

A lot of americans speak/understand german. And a lot of americans were/are german native speaker.

The word "kaputt" (it's spelled like this in German) comes from a French card game in which "être capot" meant that a player didn't win any trick. It has taken the meaning of "broken", or "tired". Germans don't say "Stein" for a beer glass ever, I don't know why the Americans say this. The American meaning of "Spiel" comes from Yiddish. In German, it means "game" or "play", but in Yiddish, it mean a sales pitch, a pick up line or the like. I think "Schmutz" also came to the USA through Yiddish speaking people. I think you would be very surprised if you came here to the area where I live. People speak Franconian, and the sentence "my house is green" is exactly the same as in English, except for the pronunciation of the "r". "Schadenfreude" is one of several German words that can't be translated easily, and that have been adopted in other languages. I don't agree with the guy, it's not always only for superficial things when nobody gets hurt, if it's e.g. somebody you can't stand, it can also be bad or serious things. "Zeitgeist" literally means "the spirit of the time", another word adopted by many. There is also a movie, or rather a documentary, called "Zeitgeist" (and even a sequel if I'm not mistaken). In German, "Schnaps" is the generic term for white alcohol from distilled fruits or rye, but not brandy. It's more like Gin. Depending on what fruits it's made with, you can say "Birnenschnaps" (pear schnaps), "Kirschschnaps" (cherry schnaps), etc. I don't think this is this guy's natural voice at all, he went into deeper mode on purpose, maybe because he's with girls and he thinks it will make him more attractive, or because he knows he will be in the video. You can hear it at the end of the video, when he reacts to the "language mixing" the girl talks about. Like Elizabeth Holmes (the woman behind the Theranos blood-testing scam), she would also speak in a much deeper than natural voice. Do you know the Cantapp? It's Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", old English pronounced as it would have sounded back then, before the Great Vowel Shift and it's much more obvious how closely related English and German are. Monty Python's Terry Jones, who was an expert on the Middle Ages, contributed to it. www.sd-editions.com/CantApp/GP/

I don't think there will be as many German words used in England as in America. America was an English colony that later took in a lot of German immigrants, which didn't happen in England. So it's logical that a lot of German words were adopted in America, but not in England.

Child - Kind Childs - Kinder Kindergarten = Kinder + Garten; a space where you grow up children. Fussball = Soccer

Schadenfreude: NOOO, it means, if somebody is Clumsy and does something, that instantly force you to laugh, WITHOUT thinking. This is important, because there is nothing bad or diabolic in this laughter! But yeah, Dwayne look at the girl in the middle, she is pure evil!

1:40 hehehehehehe Ruhestörung

Nursery... i would associate that with a thing earlier than Kindergarten, a Nursery is for Babies! 😄

I mean... is it really that surprising that america has a lot of german influence? A lot of germans migrated to the US, similar to the British. To the point where the decision about the official language of the US was between English and German. And iirc, it was a close vote.

Well. The USA has nearly half of it's population claiming German Heritage, that is probably why there are more common Words in the USA with Germany than England has with Germany. Many places in the US had for a long time German Newspapers and regions that spoke German, as in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas. That ended with the US entering WW1 (to protect the money they lent to Britain and France, they had to win). Did you know that German was almost elected as official Language in the US?

EVERY brit I know (and I know many) uses the word Gesundheit rather than bless you. 🤨

I think most of those words are Germanic not specifically Deutch. That's why Im a bit surprised some of them aren't familiar to the Brit in this video😃

Schadenfreude is laughing at slapstick.

I know the channel you’re reacting to. They’re really only for entertainment purposes. There are blatant bits of misinformation in their videos all the time. They just pull some foreigners from a very narrow pool of expats, most of them work as models, and ask them about very specific topics they really don’t know anything about. Especially the linguistic topics can be atrocious. I’d take anything from this channel with a big barrel full of salt

Angst from Rammstein 😮cool song,must see😊

Germanic Languages!

The swiss Itzehoe something is obnoxious.

Of course Kindergarten doesn't sound english, shouldn't it normally be something like "childrens garden" ? I mean, where else do you say "Kind" instead of "Child" ? Also the english "garden" has a D and not a T in it.

The explanation about the Kindergarten System is wrong German Kindergarten = daycare Vorschule = american Kindergarten

Fußball = football

Yes Stuhl also means poo 💩

It spelled Fussball and Schnaps. What is wrong with the channel you're reacting on?!

Am I the only one who finds the German guy extremely unpleasant?

While interesting, the Dude really isnt much representative for Germans... Neither does he mention "Dackel" for Dachshund at all, nor actually pronounces it, nor doe he mention the differences between German and English Kindergarten. He also does not mention that instead of Tischfußball, mich maybe the most German of the German will call it, but most People that actually play that game call it "Kicker / Tischkicker". Steinglass one could have mentioned as a German representative, that it comes back to the very form of that glass, as it originates in Stein, actually made of stone or terracotta(Cley). Really not the best video content when he s involved, entertaining, sure ... but not educative...

Schmutz, kaputt, kitsch many of those words are of jiddish origin

to 5:15 There are many reasons why German phrases have seeped into the vocabulary of American English. One of them may be that in 1987 it was said (www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/proclamation-5719-german-american-day-1987#:~:text=More%20Americans%20trace%20their%20heritage,%2D%2D%20are%20of%20German%20descent.) that 60 million Americans are of German descent. A Wikipedia article (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans) about German-Americans even speaks of a German belt that stretches across the northern states from the east coast to the west coast: "There is a German belt consisting of areas with predominantly German American populations that extends across the United States from eastern Pennsylvania, where many of the first German Americans settled, to the Oregon coast." and "The 2020 census results showed over 44,978,546 Americans self-identifying as German alone or in combination with another ancestry. This includes 15,447,670 who chose German alone." Without going deeper into the matter, we can also include the end of WW2 in this consideration, where the American troops stationed in West Germany also had a linguistic interaction with English, and even stronger the English influence on the German language, which led to the well-known Denglish. In contrast, cultural and everyday language exchange between the British and the Germans was almost non-existent. England was thus spared from German linguistic influence.