50 Hilarious Jokes About The German Language

Germans have six different ways of saying “Why?”

Damjan
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50 Hilarious Jokes About The German Language

The German language is easy to master – if you are from Germany. If you are not- good luck. It has complicated grammar and words for almost anything.

They even have a word for "feeling lonely in the forest" - Waldeinsamkeit. And that is just one of the examples.

You cannot blame them; they just wanted to be efficient and place as much meaning in one word as they could. Mark Twain once said that "Some German words are so long that they have a perspective."

People who are learning the German language share the funniest German words, and we have selected some of the funniest.

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1. reddit.com

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2. Femme Finn

3. SS

3. SSreddit.com

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4. ShortTermAccount

5. Bitte

5. BitteAnna Brandigi

6. Mom

6. MomDforDorothy

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7. reddit.com

8. Kinder

8. Kinderjuice

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9. fierceredpanda37

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10. imgur.com

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11. Bianca Gue

12. This could be tricky...

12. This could be tricky...Ray Martin

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13. Anna Brandigi

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14. linguisticconvoy

15. The animal kingdom

15. The animal kingdomLacrossebob123

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16. _learn_german

17. We are smarter

17. We are smarterlangsandculture.tumblr

18. Good luck

18. Good luckthirdquad1337

19. Lupe

19. Lupelinguisticconvoy

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Richards also said that the pronunciation is simpler than you might think, and grammar is relatively easy to learn thanks to familiar patterns. "If we examine the phrases' what is that?' and 'was ist das?', the connections are obvious."

This polyglot also believes that it's much simpler to speak words phonetically in German than in English. "In English, letters often change sounds without any logical explanation. This isn't the case in German."

"Although some aspects of German may seem difficult, once you break the language down, it's not actually that hard."

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21. Dystopiancomics

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22. reddit.com

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23. annoyingcommentguy

24. Confusing.

24. Confusing.singing-squirrelmonkey

25. Yes, you can....

25. Yes, you can....ahahagerman

26. Nothing to hide....

26. Nothing to hide....butt-hole-bread-blog

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27. reddit.com

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28. Tiny Dynamine

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29. cityofclockworkk

30. One letter makes the difference.

30. One letter makes the difference.squidwardofficial

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31. Itchy Feet Comic

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32. lysa-bell

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33. sharethiscrap

34. German Scrabble

34. German Scrabblebonkersworld

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35. AllHailTheDramaLlama

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36. reddit.com

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37. obscuredbeauty

38. Cable salad

38. Cable saladreddit.com

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Interestingly, the English language is formed from German, but over time the words have changed, and we can hardly recognize them.The longest word in the German language has an astonishing 80 letters!

The term "Donaudampfschifffahtselektrizitatenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengessellschaft" literally translates a s "Association for Subordinate Officials of the Head Office Management of the Danube Steamboat Electrical Services."

Mark Twain was so right.

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40. linguisticsyall

41. Really?

41. Really?TigerofDoom

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Olly Richards, a polyglot and the creator of I Will Teach You A Language, says that, actually, German isn't too difficult to master.

"One of the main reasons German isn’t all that hard to learn is that German and English originate from the same language families and share more similarities than you probably realize," Richards says.

"Both German and English are Indo-European languages that stem from the Germanic family of languages. About 40% of German vocabulary is similar to English vocabulary, which is good news for native English speakers!"

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43. Mary Peace

44. Scary

44. ScaryVicky Zar

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45. ADHORTATOR

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46. ahahagerman

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47. Lilya

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48. Silent Skeleton

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49. Giorgio Prodoti

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50. Greg Rakozy

51. Wow

51. Wowoctopusinfreetime

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52. Volker Burmester

53. Sofort.

53. Sofort.reddit.com
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