GERMAN NAMES That Sound Funny To Americans

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Hey rabbits!
Today I want to present some common German names to you that might seem funny to English speakers, Americans in particular. They are completely normal for Germans, but if you pronounce them with an American accent they sound hilarious and may cause some confusion. Wanna know which ones I picked and why? Then enjoy today's video and tell me in the comments what you think!
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@yjk5737 3 года назад

Wolfgang is a badass name in English. Like Mowgli, raised by a gang of wolves.

@chrisrudolf9839 3 года назад

The really funny thing is that Wolfgang does actually have a badass origin. It is an old North-Germanic name that is consists of the parts "Wolf", which means wolve, and gang, which can mean journey but also (in this context) Waffengang = battle, clash of arms. So the name basically means "he who goes into battle with (the spirit of) the wolve", a poetic description of a brave and ferocious fighter.

@MichaEl-rh1kv 3 года назад

Like Chris Rudolf said, Wolfgang is the leading/attacking warrior, and Gangolf is exact the same (the parts of the name are only interchanged), while Gandolf is the wolve with the wand, the battle sorcerer.

@yjk5737 3 года назад

@@MichaEl-rh1kv Every great army needs a battle sorcerer.

@vulvegang 2 года назад

@@chrisrudolf9839 after reading this, i feel really powerful

@johnthomas2485 4 года назад

Hehe saw a meme today "Germany is warning Citizens to stock up of sausage and cheese. They are calling it a Würst Käse scenario." Ba dump bump

@helenasaez9372 4 года назад

Why did I laugh so much on this xD

@TechieTard 4 года назад

LOL! I know, I'm not very mature.....nice to meat yu.

@kumanon9466 4 года назад

It's Wurst, you English speaking Ba dump bump! :)

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

...the Germans have no sense of humor-!!

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

snucker-snucker-snucker!!

@samjensen392 4 года назад

“Waltraut” just made me think of a singing fish plaque

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

..."Billy Bass"(?)

@kingbeauregard 4 года назад

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@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

...there used to be a brand of men's hair cream called: "WILDROOT"-!!

@Wurby 4 года назад

@@kingbeauregard After 12 years I still laugh my ass off at that video 😂

@loopshackr 4 года назад

@@daleburrell6273 Still available thru Amazon (though they don't call it Wildroot Cream Oil anymore).

@JesseKuiper 4 года назад

If you have never heard of the name Wolfgang something has been missing in your education. #mozart

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

...and let's not forget Major "Wolfgang Hochstetter" from "Hogan's Heroes"(!)

@ChrisPage68 4 года назад

@@daleburrell6273 "Veeeeerrry interesting!"

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

...and wasn't Eddie Munster's middle name "Wolfgang"(?)

@segka8536 4 года назад

Wolfgang Sebastian Bach

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

@@segka8536 JOHANN Sebastian Bach!!!

@baomickuso 4 года назад

Hella, I assume your brother must be........ Hello?

@DontTrustTheRabbit 4 года назад

lol

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

"...what's in a name?" - Shakespeare

@maro8885 3 года назад

Shakespeare sounds like Shake beer😅

@ronaldsilton613 4 года назад

Elke Sommers was a German actress that quite a few Americans knew about. Helmut is my middle name and also my uncle's name.

@jeromemckenna7102 4 года назад

I was going to mention that.

@NicolaW72 3 года назад

Two German chancellors carried the given name Helmut.

@no-sf7mc 3 года назад

Yes but do you know who Dunkelmut Is

@llenin6767 2 года назад

Often pronounced like "Elky", however.

@poleag 4 года назад

Helmut is the one I find funniest, because it sounds like helmet. Imagine if someone's name was Hut.

@nobodysgirl7972 4 года назад

Then Friedhelm might be even better. I always imagine a peaceful (fried like in friedlich) helmet

@vincem3748 4 года назад

Helmut was the name of the first computer I ever had. I used to give computers German names for some reason, lol 🖥️

@hoathanatos6179 4 года назад

@@nobodysgirl7972 Well in ancient times many Germanic names often were made of two components that together may not make sense; however, each component would represent desired qualities of a child. Like the Old Norse Hrafnkettil lit. Ravenhelmet meant that the person was wise/intelligent (Raven) and a Warrior (Helmet), or a wise warrior. Friedhelm would then mean a warrior that strives for peace.

@hoathanatos6179 4 года назад

Like Ludwig is Lud (fame) and Wig (war) so one who is famous for their military exploits, and Hartmut as was said before is Hart (hard/strong) and Mut (courage) so one who is strong and courageous.

@xonxt 4 года назад

Trixie: Jörg is a funny name **laughs in slingshot**

@KelikakuCoutin 4 года назад

I got that one.

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

@@KelikakuCoutin ...I must have missed something-!!

@kingbeauregard 4 года назад

@@daleburrell6273 Let me show you its features: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Uh5W0JA-jo0.html

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

@@kingbeauregard ...that's a new one on ME-!!!

@ormsucher 4 года назад

My name is Jörg. Let me show you its features.

@blatherskite9601 4 года назад

Mercedes is a girl's name...

@LeifNelandDk 4 года назад

The car is named after the girl.

@anonb4632 4 года назад

@@LeifNelandDk I know. It still sounds funny since the car is better known. I think Mercedes is originally a Spanish name. Porsche is originally a girl's name too (Portia in English).

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

...YOU BETCHER LIFESAVERS!!

@chrisrudolf9839 4 года назад

@@anonb4632 Porsche derives from the company owner's surname, I'm not sure that this is actually related to the English name Portia. I definitely never heard Porsche used as a German first name.

@Markle2k 4 года назад

There is a fairly well known (Academy Award winner) American actress named Mercedes Ruehl. As with Elke, and Wolfgang, Americans are pretty familiar with it. And, if you paid attention in English literature class, Isolde (of Tristan and... fame).

@talideon 4 года назад

"Isolde" is an interesting one: that's ultimately of Irish original (where it also gets spelled "Iseult"), and gained popularity from the story of Tristan and Isolde.

@anonb4632 4 года назад

There's still a town near Dublin called Chapelizod after her.

@deecyp64 4 года назад

See it’s not weird to call your daughter Danaerys people have done this since forever

@PropertyOfK 4 года назад

I would assume people were taught that story, we did it in school, here in Poland when talking about arthurian legends.

@DanDownunda8888 4 года назад

Tristan and Iseult, alternatively known as Tristan and Isolde, is a chivalric romance retold in numerous variations since the 12th century. The story is a tragedy about the adulterous love between the Cornish, not Irish, knight Tristan (Tristram, etc.)

@anonb4632 4 года назад

@@DanDownunda8888 Isolde/Yseult was Irish. Tristan was Cornish. His name is probably related to the Pictish name "Drostan", but the current form has been influenced by the French "triste" (sad). Tristram was a different person I think.

@Bladingmom 4 года назад

People always had a hard time pronouncing my name while I was growing up, and now people have a hard time pronouncing my sons' names, Rutger and Torbjörn. I couldn't make it easy for them, could I?

@mememoments2779 2 года назад

Torbjörn is awesome!

@bericborte2788 4 года назад

I love your videos. These videos helped me to decide to learn German. They really helped me learn German two years ago. Thank you so much for all the great content.

@Bernadoguy1 4 года назад

Als waschechter Wolfgang hatte ich sehr viel Spaß und über eine Folge 2 oder sogar 3 würde ich mich sehr freuen. Und natürlich: Daumen Hoch.

@howardpope3932 4 года назад

Also ich sehe ehrlich gesagt an diesem Namen überhaupt nichts Problematisches. Außer vielleicht, dass Wölfe gefährlich und furchteinflössen sein können. Aber der Name klingt ja nicht anstößig. Und am Gang eines Wolfes ist doch nichts Lächerliches oder so. Also, ich würde unter dem Namen nicht leiden. Die einzigen wirklich problematischen männlichen Vornamen sind für mich Axel (in Schweden und in deutschsprachigen Ländern), Dick, Willy (in englischsprachigen Ländern) und (in englischsprachigen Ländern) John (weil das auch ein Wort für "Klo" ist, außerdem heißen in diesen Ländern viel zu viele Leute so, da weiß man ja gar nicht, wer gemeint ist.) und Randy (weil "randy" ja "geil" bedeutet).

@howardpope3932 4 года назад

Ach ja, und "Johannes" finde ich auch problematisch, wegen der Nase eines Mannes. Außerdem finde ich den Namen überhaupt nicht schön.

@dickymmahendra 4 года назад

In my side german is such beautiful language. I'm still learning German, I keep trying, memorizing the words, and sounding like a real German eventhough it's pretty hard to me.

@kaitan4160 4 года назад

German was once called the language of poets and thinkers .... before a different Event overshadowed everything German ....

@tulpenbambus 4 года назад

Na dann, viel Spaß dabei!

@hanniballecter2513 3 года назад

@@kaitan4160 that event effected me very personally, yet I still love German culture

@bloodeasy4295 2 года назад

Do you know what "servus" means in german? :) The translater didnt know it XD

@grazzer1673 2 года назад

@@kaitan4160 German is about as conducive to poetry as gasoline is to breathing. Who on earth told you that German was once called the language of poets? Have you ever tried listening to German lyrics in a song? 99% of the time it's a complete disaster, with very few exceptions, like: 99 Luftballons, Major Tom and DA DA DA. 100% of my German friends cannot stand listening to songs sung in German - and they are freaking Germans!

@jensgoerke3819 4 года назад

When I was an intern in England I always had to explain how to pronounce my name - like the Japanese coin with an "S" tacked on.

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

You were off by only one letter...the phrase is: "TACKED on"...or you could have said: "tucked IN"-!!

@jensgoerke3819 4 года назад

@@daleburrell6273 That was a brain fart - I had thought of tacked on, but typed tucked on. Typo corrected, but those sometimes happen since my last stroke. Thanks for spotting it!

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

@@jensgoerke3819 ..."nobody's PERFECT"!!

@EyMannMachHin 3 года назад

Honestly I never am worried about the Jens part, since my (German) highschool days friends always called me JJ (English pronunciation!). It's the 2nd part of my first name that gives English speakers a creep ;)

@fariesz6786 3 года назад

@@EyMannMachHin i can see the conversation you're having "your name is.. ew?" "no, it's oo-vuh" "oof!"

@Robwolf28 4 года назад

In Old English Jorg would be Eorg see Jorthen is Eorthan there was no J in Old English and see like Asbjornr would be spelled Osbeorn. The modern English J sounds like a G sound instead of a Y sound. See in Old Norse the letter for g is the same for, k, though the name Jorgen would be Eorgen. Well seeing Jarl is spelled Earl in English also.

@darthcalanil5333 4 года назад

Wolfgang Mozart be like a ganstar on the violin 🤣

@malataur 4 года назад

Hi Trixi! It's been a few months. Hope you're well. Bye for now!

@STUBENTELEVISION 4 года назад

Kai-Uwe & Karl-Heinz are the funniest German names. 🤪

@mountainhobo 4 года назад

To soccer fans that second name is rather easy (Bayern -- I will leave the rest to the reader).

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

...that's bad- because Germans have no sense of humor!!

@michaelburke750 4 года назад

mountainhobo Rummenigge Rummenigge Heu Heu Heu!

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

@@michaelburke750 ...you're clear as MUD-!!!

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

@@mountainhobo ...that's over MY head-!!!

@ZER0ZER0SE7EN 4 года назад

I think of the name Isolde from the famous Richard Wagner work "Tristan and Isolde". Like what Trixie said not all of these names were originally German. The story of Tristan and Isolde was set in Britain. The name Trixie makes me think of a cartoon rabbit selling kids" breakfast cereal!

@anonb4632 4 года назад

They are both Celtic names. Isolde was Irish (Yseult) and Tristan was Cornish (Drostan). Wagner wrongly refers to Tristan as living in England. The old Cornish, at least in Tristan's day, wouldn't have considered Cornwall to be English.

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

...there's a newspaper comic strip in the U.S.: "Hi and Lois"- one of the characters is a baby girl named "Trixi".

@51tomtomtom 3 года назад

non in Britain, but Ireland !

@dog61 4 года назад

Old farts like me know how to pronounce Elke, because of the actress Elke Sommer.

@tulpenbambus 4 года назад

Or Elke Jochmann, she is 45

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

@@tulpenbambus ...NONE OF US ARE GETTING ANY YOUNGER-!!!

@hankeng6375 4 года назад

Wolfgang is known in America because of Chef Wolfgang Puck. When I think of strange German names, I think of Jan and Mieke -- because of the movie Eurotrip.

@51tomtomtom 3 года назад

neither Jan nor Mieke are german names , both are short forms !Jan comes from Johannes which comes from hebrew Yehochanan, Mieke is dutch from Marieke which comes from Maria which comes from hebrew /aramaic Maryam/Miriyam

@victorwelkin9136 4 года назад

Silent for two months. Are you doing okay?

@vincentmartinez8241 4 года назад

I love this adorable hilarious channel. Keep up the awesome job Trixie!

@Cortesevasive 4 года назад

too many tities to be adorable

@monamona9171 4 года назад

I like ancient German names like Gertrude, Elfrida, Valburge, etc.

@SaoGage 3 года назад

Don't forget Slagathor.

@gabosampallosaez5296 4 года назад

Guten Morgeeen! I felt confused for a moment bc today's obviously not Sunday! haha 🤪❤

@Ozzy_2014 4 года назад

Follow Trixie on Instagram and you won't be.

@richardholmquist7316 4 года назад

Ever since lockdown Trixi's forgetting the days of the week...)

@Luana-Annalise 4 года назад

Tinaaa, was kosten die Kondome?

@LordKhor 3 года назад

Der arme Hugo :(

@literallydarheel3234 3 года назад

What happened to you?

@Fritz357 4 года назад

idk y, but i always found the name Heidi funny. Also words like poodle and stewie.

@51tomtomtom 3 года назад

Heidi is not a name, it is a short form of old-germanic "Hedwig"

@Fritz357 3 года назад

@@51tomtomtom oh i didn't know that

@jhdix6731 4 года назад

My US colleagues always had a hard time pronouncing my first name (Jens). But it didn't sound as funny to them as the name of a turkish colleague, which was Ufuk....

@gustavmeyrink_2.0 3 года назад

Well Elke Sommer appeared in a number of British and US movies. The pronounce it 'Elkie'. Isolde is fairly well known in Britain. It goes back to the story of Tristan & Isolde which is part of the Arthurian legends describing the love affair between Tristan and an Irish princess but the original spelling is Iseult.

@kalulu1675 Год назад

Yes, my family also had a dog named Elke who was a border collie. We called her "Elkie" even though we knew it was different from German pronunciation.

@TrangleC 4 года назад

I might have mentioned it before in a comment to another video, but luckily I'm a forgettable guy. I have a Serbo-Croatian middle-name which amuses English speakers too: Duschan I don't speak the language, but I was told it means "Soul" or "Spirit" or something like that and has nothing to do with hygiene utensils or character traits. hehe

@jed-henrywitkowski6470 4 года назад

My sister had a bf, who's surname is Poland... He ain't Polish. Knew a girl in our YA group (shoulda asked her out) who's maiden name was Holland, and she wasn't Dutch.

@CaptainBakerJason 4 года назад

Fun Trixi. In my experience, in America most often Elke was pronounced as El-Key far more than other ways. This was probably due to that being the common Americanized pronunciation for Elke that included some celebrity singers & actresses in the ‘60s. Definitely you could succeed with a sequel! Although I’m curious about how German speakers might pronounce Latin American or Asian names to n ways that might be funny to the ears of English speakers too?! 👍🏻💪🏻

@timmmahhhh 4 года назад

There was an actress named Elke Sommer, and in German American pronunciation people pronounced it ELK-ee.

@51tomtomtom 3 года назад

american actress ??????

@timmmahhhh 3 года назад

@@51tomtomtom ah I see she was in fact German. I knew nothing about her just that she was on American game show in the 70's, Match Game I think. I stand corrected, thank you.

@bobfognozzle 4 года назад

Ein monat hast gepasst...und wo ist Frau Trixie?

@hatnixzuverlirn 4 года назад

Mein Nachname ist Schulz.... With an American accent it would be called skulz..... But i am really no butcher. A Story to it. My mum and i was waiting for a plane in some arabic Land to Go further with our Trip to Asia, to meet my dad there. When WE were called AS Last call.... My mother could Not addept the speaker calling for Mrs skulz, as beeing herself..... I was very little, but i did IT.... Very luckily

@51tomtomtom 3 года назад

schulz means "mayor " in old german

@randyherbrechtsmeier4796 4 года назад

My Boss is a Englishman He Always Embarrassed when He Says My First Name. Randy?!!!!

@Axelsanx 4 года назад

But I am old, and had three years of German (like 40 years ago), so I know who Elke Sommer is and how to say her same. ;)

@jonadabtheunsightly 4 года назад

Wait. What kind of American accent would turn "Jorg" into "Jerk"? How does o become e? Why on earth would g ever become k? (I mean, yes, linguistically speaking, they're both velar plosives; but most Americans don't know that much linguistics.) The natural thing for an American to do with "Jorg", is pronounce it like the first part of Geordi La Forge, smashed together with the end of the word frog. You know, like as if it were spelled "Jorg". Reinhart / Reinhardt / Rinehart / Rineheart / various-other-spellings is a fairly common surname in America. Waltraut immediately makes me think of Big Mouth Billy Bass.

@chrisrudolf9839 3 года назад

The German name isn't Jorg, it's Jörg. The German ö or oe sound actually sounds VERY similar (though not quite identical) to the e in jerk. The g/k part was probably a German accent fallacity on Trixi's part. The German language has the quirk that we tend to pronounce soft plosives almost identical to hard plosives when they are at the end of a word and we also do that in English. That is one part of the German accent that is incredibly difficult to get rid of. Most Germans who learned English at school can pronounce the th nowadays, but their "dog" will still sound like a "doc" and their "cab" will sound like a "cap". So if you heard a German pronounce the name Jörg, you'd probably guess it was spelt "Yerk".

@theharpooner9785 4 года назад

Austrians are rural people for germans Germans are rural people for the english The english are rural people for americans This is what makes previous one funny. If u are villager u r just a clown

@allenho2778 4 года назад

Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner.

@ljg5795 4 года назад

Eh, those names weren't as silly as you might think.

@frerichs191 4 года назад

My great grand father came to the US from Germany in the early 1900’s. His name was Gerhard Frerichs, although Germans would pronounce it GARE-HEART, I assume he took a much more American pronunciation because of the world wars and went by Garrett.

@snow2268 4 года назад

Oh that's interesting. I saw many Americanised German names. For example König -> Koanish.

@chrisrudolf9839 3 года назад

Many Americans of German origin either americanised their names by renaming themselves to the English equivalents of their names or by changing the spelling (especially the spelling of their surnames) to something that would be easy to pronounce in English and would sound similar to the German pronunciation of their original name, for example the name Snyder (from German Schneider = Taylor) or Flysher (from German Fleischer = Butcher)

@gabbybrown7190 4 года назад

Hey, Trixie!! Have you ever seen Hedwig and the Angry Inch, if so, what do you think of it? Do you find it too stereotypical? I’d love to see that in a video!

@LythaWausW 4 года назад

My husband's name is Joerg and he has trouble in America when he introduces himself, without any visual clues Americans inevitably think he's saying the word "yuk." "What? Your name is yuk? Really? Yuk?" Names we giggle about in our house: Judith (You did?) and Edith (Ate it?). The older people are, the cooler their names sound.

@viiperbiite 4 года назад

ok but there are many other "Western" countries other than America.

@elle-iza 4 года назад

What did I miss? Who was denying that?

@YamGoblin 4 года назад

She's not depicting other countries... Nothing wrong with that. Feel left out? Then say so and let her know...

@daleburrell6273 4 года назад

@@YamGoblin BOO-HOO-HOO!!

@erictaylor5462 4 года назад

When I was in high school a West German flew his Cessna to Moscow and landed in Red Square. His name was Mathian Rust. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust

@PortCharmers 4 года назад

This reminds of the time when I did a fish-ecology research project, and rather than going the unimaginative route and referring to them as Fish 1 through to Fish 3, I named them Gertraud, Waltraud and Edeltraud.

@hoathanatos6179 4 года назад

Well Traud means strength so the names could be translated as something like strong spear/warrior the strong slain/fallen in combat, and the strong noble.

@scottfw7169 4 года назад

Isolde - without cheating in Google, isn't there an Arthurian era story about Tristan and Isolde? Post this then off to Google.

@rolfpitsch5002 4 года назад

My last name Pitsch Americans have trouble pronouncing because of the "s". If I speak it they naturally spell it " PItch". I was born in Mageburg, Deutschland during WWII. My middle name is " Siegfried" which was my father's first name. You may also know where Wolmirstedt is. It is the town lived in before going to Hamburg. When people see my middle initial "S", they want to know what it stands for. I tell them it stands for the line that the Battle of the Bulge was fought around!

@Cassxowary 4 года назад

Rolf Pitsch Rolf ist toll auch!

@DogWalkerBill 4 года назад

So, Tristan and Isolde. Famous opera.

@WhiteSpatula 4 года назад

You used “hella” in English hella perfectly! That was pure awesomeness, Trixi.. my favorite non-porn non-pig. Hella sweet video ;^} -Phill, Las Vegas

@nobodysgirl7972 4 года назад

I was quite astonished eben you put Wolfgang in the granddad section for my dad ist called Wolfgang, but then I remerred he will turn 60 this year, so granddad age. Just forgot how old he is and how "old" I am. Thanks for reminding me 😉

@timschulze4162 4 года назад

I also thought exactly the same! For me Wolfgang is not that old but actually all Wolfgangs I know are old enough to be granddads😅

@bobfognozzle 4 года назад

Trixie...U OK??

@charlbadenhorst3797 4 года назад

My name gets prounched wrong everyday and I gave up years ago..... From Charl to shawn, karl, charles, charlie, chris, seun and more I forgot... I just answer to all of them to be honest.

@charlbadenhorst3797 4 года назад

And dont forget my surname.... From Badenhorst to bezuidenhout, brakenhorst and worst of all badenworst.... I'm south african so its a not unknown but not widely known either

@markseare9274 4 года назад

I have an German ancestor named Adelgunda Dietzel. She's my great-great-great grandma.

@MrHodoAstartes 4 года назад

Now THAT is an oldschool name. Probably named after the Catholic saint who founded the abbey of Maubeuge in the 7th century.

@eagle1de227 4 года назад

Die Gundi! Süüß!

@hoathanatos6179 4 года назад

Adelgunda would mean noble battle and sounds very archaic.

@lauren2966 3 года назад

Trixie, are you okay? It's been a while. I hope you're safe and healthy during these difficult times ❤️

@gohansolo1980 4 года назад

To me the name Jörg sounds like an expression of disgust. YEURGH!

@Cadfael007 4 года назад

When you drive the Autobahn A40 towards the Netherlands, you will find a sign (Abfahrt) saying "Wankum". By the way - it's a wonderful small town.

@AlryFireBlade 3 года назад

Wolfgang ist ja bereits im deutschen eigentlich seltsam, wenn man ihn auseinandern nimmt. Wolf gang, der gang eines Wolfes :D Oh stimmt das geht auch xD

@barbarasunday3514 4 года назад

My father's name was Hans, which seems pretty easy, but over here in the US people were always caling him "Hands" or "Hunts" and our family name was Kroschke which people sometimes called "Crotch-key" Think of the two together..."Hands Crotch-key," Glad he had a sense of humor!

@friedrichwilhelmvonsteuben7952 4 года назад

I've heard the names Elke and Isolde in the US. And they were pronounced correctly. Elke was a girl from Wisconsin and Isolde was an English professor's daughter.

@shanetrevyllian2950 4 года назад

Apparently the English form of Elke is Elkie, which I guess explains why Elkie Chong from CLC is so named, but then again, I also went to scouts with an English girl named Elke, so I don't know for sure. If you ask me, both names sound very unique to me, as a British person, but maybe they're popular in other English-speaking countries. Also, I didn't make the elk connection, until you said it, and now I'm trying so hard to unhear, but I just can't...

@scottfw7169 4 года назад

Haven't had people struggle with my name, but, have had them struggle with name of one of my cats, Grumman, who was named after the aircraft company known for their Navy fighters, their flying boat aircraft, the Apollo lunar module, and a series of aluminum canoes. Most frequent mispronunciation is "Grew-man".

@takingbackthehammer6527 4 года назад

I got a pretty old fashioned name

@krissp8712 4 года назад

Reinhardt? Don't worry my friends, I will be your shield!

@DogWalkerBill 4 года назад

I thought 'Rainhard' was more commonly spelled 'Reinhardt.' (Especially about 75 or 100 years ago.) WOW! That red wig and your blue eyes are FANTASTIC together! (Try wearing it for what's his name.)

@eneszevrek3485 4 года назад

Ich sehe es kommen das jetzt in zwei Jahren der Name Wolfgang auch in Groß Britannien und den USA populär wird 😂 fühlt euch bitte nicht angegriffen ich hatte selbst einen guten Freund der Wolfgang heißt

@lazyperfectionist1 4 года назад

"...because I like imagining a gang of wolves when I hear it." Where my dawgs at? 🤙

@SeijinDinger 4 года назад

I can say that my surname of Allmendinger has been butchered pretty badly over the years

@davidschrieber9308 4 года назад

Haven’t heard from you in a while. Are you aright?

@stevebartley8594 4 года назад

Your youth is showing - Elke was the first name of a popular actress in the ‘60s and ‘70s - Elke Sommer. It was properly pronounced

@SteveLarsenStuff 4 года назад

In my high school German Textbook in the 90s ("Wir, die Jugend"), it had the name Wiebke in it as a girl's name. My German teacher said there was ALWAYS one kid in his German I classes that would ask, "What's a 'Wiebke?'" after unsuccessfully trying to find it in the dictionary. Good times!

@hoathanatos6179 4 года назад

Wiebke is a Low German name that is a diminutive from of the name Wigborg(a) lit. War Helper.

@51tomtomtom 3 года назад

Wiebke is north-german/dutch form of Wigberta etc. Wigburg

@scottfw7169 4 года назад

Ah, I'd been pronouncing Elke as Ell-key; a pronunciation which may or may not have been influenced by my Mom's name being Ellie.

@lunaphoenix71 3 года назад

Jennifer is also good German name.

@fritteee 3 года назад

Also ich glaube alle Willibalds, Heribalds und Trautes sind eher schon ausgestorben 😅

@livinginthenow 3 года назад

I miss your videos. Hope you and your family are doing okay.

@DogWalkerBill 4 года назад

Is 'Hella' derived from the Norse goddess of the dead (and north) 'Hel'?

@hoathanatos6179 4 года назад

No. Hella means bright or shining/beautiful one.

@scottfw7169 4 года назад

First thing Hella brings to my mind are Revell Germany model kit instructions where hellblau paint is called for. Right after that is Hellenic & Hellas for Greek & Greece.

@mikelangelo1873 4 года назад

Hey Trixi … I‘m sorry but I think that you should buy new clothes because that people notice that you make the videos since a long time with the same clothes and that’s not good for a famous RU-vidr like you (appearance is important)

@Cassxowary 4 года назад

mikel angelo nobody even cares, she can wear whatever she wants and no one commented on it except you (:

@mikelangelo1873 4 года назад

Herta Schneider See haw many likes In comparison with views she got.... in modern world appearance is important . One has to develop himself. I watch Trixi before you did since along time . The content is important but appearance too So that there is a renewal and the channel is not boring ( see the other youtuber !!). You should not think too old .

@blatherskite9601 4 года назад

I knew a Bent-Aksel once... and work with a Hans-Willi.

@cixelsyd40 4 года назад

I have a German friend named Knut

@DogWalkerBill 4 года назад

You look cute as a red head. Kind of like Sasha Woods over at Casually Comics.

@gantmj 3 года назад

Whenever a name ends in "berg" it sounds funny to us, we hear it as "Jew".

@hannofranz7973 3 года назад

Berg and jew have nothing in common phonetically. Strange.

@Rathnite 4 года назад

My mother was born in Germany, and her first name is Gerlinde. Americans usually say "Geraldine".

@51tomtomtom 3 года назад

Ger means in all germanic languages Speer, lind = friendly

@sentimapathill3756 4 года назад

Meine Mutter heißt Elke und in englisch nennen sie die meisten "Elkee" oder "Elki". My mother's name is Elke and most English speaking people say "Elkee" or "Elki".

@tulpenbambus 4 года назад

Jedenfalls besser als Alki😂

@anthonykaiser974 4 года назад

Well, I think in Bavaria, that might be dialectally proper.

@FalcoPunch182 4 года назад

Came for the boobs. Wurde nicht enttäuscht.

@MrAzlantheLandlordSdnBhd 4 года назад

My name is Azlan, some Americans call me Ass-land thinking its funny. It actually has Turkic origins and means lion.

@Midnight.Creepypastas 4 года назад

You should watch or read "The Chronicles of Narnia".^^

@Cassxowary 4 года назад

Mr Azlan the Landlord and read them too!

@Midnight.Creepypastas 4 года назад

@@Cassxowary ... "watch or read" ...

@ChrisPage68 4 года назад

Florian. Is he a florist? 😜 I knew Isolde from "Tristan and Isolde". Willibald sounds like a circumcised man.

@theblackbear211 2 года назад

I laughed when you tried to imagine what a "Wall Trout" might be - because we do have fishermen who have their "prize winning" catches mounted on plaques on the wall. If I google "Wall mounted trout" there are lots of pictures. LOL

@NikiPendragon 4 года назад

The son of my sister has a bike from the company Puky. But my sister removed the label cos her Canadian friend thought it had something to do with the word to puke 😂

@chr13 4 года назад

Jörg Meuthen is the party leader of the AfD, so he's a jerk.

@scottfw7169 4 года назад

Speaking of Rainhard, here in our state Missouri, "High-intensity precipitation characterizes all regions of Missouri. The town of Holt in northwestern Missouri holds the world record for a high-intensity rain, having received 12 inches within a 42-minute period on June 22, 1947." Source: Climate of Missouri, Wayne L. Decker, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri

@catulusinferni8612 4 года назад

Wolfgang was always funny to me. It's a wolfs walk, how can you nor laugh at this? Also, the only Jörg I know is more then a jerk. :D

@Vicky-uy7tb 3 года назад

Why are there currently no more new videos? :-(

@dalemcdaniel4703 3 года назад

I have been wondering the same thing. Hopefully all is well.

@clydexu134 4 года назад

some one steal your photo

@speedracer1177 4 года назад

Not my first name, but my last name gets botched: Hinderliter (the last "I" is long) yet people change it to liter. (Sounding like a unit of measure.) My married name is Riehemann. We don't spell that out. We just give them our first name because no one is going to pronounce that right 99% of the time. 🤣

@ABtheButterfly 3 года назад

Jörg sounds more like "Yerk" than "Jerk" to me Elke I dunno Google Translate pronounce them the same way Wolfgang would always be the coolest German name (to Americans ha ha) it's just so badass yet so elegant Rainhard yeah it sounds better in a German accent American one is just funny, btw imagine someone named Sunnysoft sounds like a My Little Pony name Hella, no comment it's just funny Traute I dunno never seen the name seems a bit fishy to me Waltroute oh American actually do put trouts on their wall, well not real trout cause that will stink but a plastic singing fish trout that you push a button and it sings a short tune here's what it looks like ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fkYZ4wTBd8g.html this more like an older generation thing to do Willibald and Heribald eh who are we to judge our national bird is a bald eagle and it isn't even bald fun fact the reason it's called "Bald Eagle" is because "Bald" comes from an old English word "blade" that means white Isolde imaging being named Isolde and growing up to car seller or something

@acefox1 4 года назад

I have a friend from high school named Elke and she pronounced it as “El-Key.” I think it has to do with the actress Elke Sommer as the Hollywood pronunciation of her name is “El-Key.” Great videos! You are awesome 👏