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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Schadenfreude

Zeitgeist

Kindergarten

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Haven't heard Schadenfreude, good one to know

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I prefer English words making it incorrectly into German. "Getting a handy from your buddy at a public viewing" is totally innocent in German.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, I brought the beamer in my body bag.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Beamer is a projector, right?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

My friend in Australia is a doctor studying psychiatry and he kept asking me what certain worlds meant and half the time I had no idea what they were or how to explain them lol.

Very random. Here's a wiki list but I remember there were some others too

Anwesenheit

Dermatozoenwahn

Entgleisen

Gedankenlautwerden

Mitgehen

Mitmachen

Pfropfschizophrenie

Schnauzkrampf

Wahneinfall

Verstimmung

vorbeigehen; vorbeireden

Witzelsucht

Würgstimme

Word salad/Wortsalat

Zeitraffer

Zeitlupenwahrnehmung

It's kind of interesting to see the long lasting effect of Germans pioneering the medical field for a very brief time in history.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think doppelgänger is the most spread one.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Gesundheit

Poltergeist

Spiel

Stool ( Stuhl )

Rucksack

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Good ones! Rucksack is interesting because it also exists as a backpack, which is literally the translation of rucksack.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

For the chess people: Zugzwang and Zwischenzug!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Zeitgeist

Spiel

Schadenfreude

Kindergarten

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, which however, were not discovered by the well known mathematician Eigen. Ansatz ist also commonly used in research articles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It's funny how both the German and English stems from the whole word.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I guess mine would be kaput

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In English, it is, surprisingly, just "kaput" with a single "t"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's ok, just tell us when it's working again

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I guess Wieners and Frankfurters would also count

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

(German) Angst Apfelstrudel Kindergarten Oberlichte ...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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Gestalt is an awesome word

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (7 children)

In mathematics:

Eigenvektor

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Hammerzeit!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

First orderly an abseiling

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Doppelgänger

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Does "Neuschwanstein" count? As in the castle in bavaria. Because I find it amusing how native english speakers just stumple over the pronounciation. Also "Gesamtkunstwerk" because it seems kinda superflous.

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