Deutsch Fur Fools

音読み　ザイ

訓読み　つみ

部首　罒

意味　法にふれるおこない・道徳に反すること

英語　guilt, sin, crime, fault, blame, offense

罪悪　ざいあく　crime, sin, vice

罪状　ざいじょう　charges, nature of offense

功罪　こうざい　merits and demerits, strengths and weaknesses

謝罪　しゃざい　apology

重罪　じゅうざい　felony, serious crime

犯罪　はんざい　crime, offense

擦れる　「すれる」　to rub, to chafe, to wear out

捲る　「まくる」　to turn up, to do over and over again

欠く　「かく」　to chip, to break

裂ける　「さける」　to split, to be separated

仕える　「つかえる」　to serve, to attend

解ける　「ほどける」　to be solved, to loosen

弾く　「はじく」　to snap, to repel, to strum

砕く　「くだく」　to break, to smash

okay, i know, there are probably hundrends of posts like this one. and numbers is a quite easy topic which is even easier to find. but i’m doing this post more for myself than for my followers/german language learners. just as a practice and to remember it better!

0 - null

1 - eins

2 - zwei

3 - drei

4 - vier

5 - fünf

6 - sechs

7 - sieben

8 - acht

9 - neun

10 - zehn

11 - elf

12 - zwölf 

how to make a number from 13 to 19? easy! just take a number from 1 to 9 and then the word for 10! 13 is dreizehn, 14 is vierzehn, 15 is fünfzehn, 16 is sechszehn, 17 is siebzehn, 18 is achtuehn, 19 is neunzehn

now, the decades! they are basically just a number from 2 to 9 + the -zig ending!

20 - zwanzig

30 - dreißig

40 - vierzig

50 - fünfzig

60 - sechzig

70 - siebzig

80 - achtzig

90 - neunzig

100 is hundert, thousand is tausend. 

how to form a number between 21 and 99? take a number you need from 1 to 9, add “und” (and), and then the word for the decade! for example, 21 is einundzwanzig, 26 is sechsundzwanzig, 43 is dreiundvierzig and so on!

if you need a four-digit number, the order is: thousand, hundrend, and the two-digit number. for example: 1571 = eintausendfünfhunderteinundsiebzig, i.e. eintausend + fünfhundert + ein + und + siebzig

Voller weiter Felder und offener Türen

Als wir noch an Endlosigkeit glaubten

Und an Straßen die in Unendlichkeit führen

Als Träume noch Rettungsringe waren

Und das Meer eine Ewigkeit zum Ertrinken

Nächte in denen wir den Morgen vergaßen

Bevor alles begann in die Tiefe zu sinken

Als wir von weiten Himmeln träumten

In denen es weniger einsam ist als hier

Die Welt war eine bunte Kulisse

german singular, plural - english

👹 das Monster, Monster - monster

👺 der Kobold, Kobolde - troll

💄 der Lippenstift, Lippenstifte - lipstick

💋 der Kussmund, Kussmünder - kissing lips

💃 die tanzende Frau, tanzende Frauen - dancing women

👠 der Stöckelschuh, Stöckelschuhe - stiletto

🧣 der Schal, Schals - scarf

⛑ der Helm, Helme - helmet

🎒 der Schulranzen, Schulranzen - school bag

🐞 der Marienkäfer, Marienkäfer - ladybug

🐙 die/der Krake, Kraken - octopus

🌹 die Rose, Rosen - rose

🍎 der rote Apfel, rote Äpfel - red apple

🍓 die Erdbeere, Erdbeeren - strawberry

🍅 die Tomate, Tomate - tomato

🌶 die Chilischote, Chilischoten - chili pepper

🥩 das Stück Fleisch, Stücke Fleisch - piece of meat

🍟 die Pommes, no singular! - fries

🥫 die Konserve, Konserven - conserve

🍷 das Weinglas, Weingläser - wine glass

🏓 der Tischtennisschläger, Tischtennisschläger - table tennis bat

🥅 das Tor, Tore - goal

🥊 der Boxhandschuh, Boxhandschuhe - boxing glove

🛷 der Schlitten, Schlitten - sleigh

🚣‍♀️ das Ruderboot, Ruderboote - rowboat

🎪 das Zirkuszelt, Zirkuszelte - circus tent

🥁 die Trommel, Trommeln - drum

🎸 die Gitarre, Gitarren - guitar

🚗 das Auto, Autos - car

🏎 das Rennauto, Rennautos - racing car

🚒 das Feuerwehrauto, Feuerwehrautos - fire truck

🚨 das Blaulicht, Blaulichter - emergency light

🚠 die Seilbahn, Seilbahnen - ropeway

⛽️ die Zapfsäule, Zapfsäulen - pump

🎡 das Riesenrad, Riesenräder - ferris wheel

☎️ das Telefon, Telefone - telephone

⏰ der Wecker, Wecker - alarm

🛢 die Tonne, Tonnen - barrel

🧰 der Werkzeugkasten, Werkzeugkästen - toolbox

🧲 der Magnet, Magnete - magnet

🧨 der Böller, Böller - firecracker

🌡 das Thermometer, Thermometer - thermometer

🎈 der Luftballon, Luftballons - balloon

🧧 der rote Umschlag, rote Umschläge - red envelope

📮 der Briefkasten, Briefkästen - mailbox

📕 das rote Buch, rote Bücher - red book

🖍 der Buntstift, Buntstifte - crayon

🚫 das Verbot, Verbote - prohibition

❗️ das Ausrufezeichen, Ausrufezeichen - exclamation mark

❓ das Fragezeichen, Fragezeichen - question mark

♥️ das Herz, Herzen - heart

1. Handwrite random things (news, lyrics, whatever)

2. Listen to music while reading the lyrics

3. Watch series/movies

4. Listen to podcast

•watching YouTubers speak your target language and you’re jealous of their ‘fluency’

•debating if you should learn a Romance language or Germanic

•changing your phone to your target language and getting weird looks from people when they see your home screen

•debating if you should learn German or Dutch

•debating if you should learn Swedish or Norwegian

•debating if you should learn Italian or Spanish or Portuguese

•talking to yourself in your target language

•you’re able to understand your target language in a written form but when somebody speaks it, you’re like🤔🔫

•fangirling when you find somebody who speaks your target language

writing german: der die das ?? dem den ?? die das ?? dem ?? who knows

listening to german: what bloody dialect / accent is this

1. Ich versteh nur Bahnhof Literally: I understand only train station Meaning: I have no idea what you are saying

2. Du gehst mir voll auf den Keks Literally: You walk me on the cookie Meaning: You are getting on my nerves. 3. Du hast nicht mehr alle Tassen im Schrank Literally: You are missing cups in your cupboard Meaning: You’re crazy

4. Ich bin fuchsteufelswild Literally: I’m foxdevilswild Meaning: I’m super mad

5. Ich krieg die Krise Literally: I get the crisis Meaning: I’m going mad

6. Mir fällt ein Stein vom Herzen Literally: A stone falls from my heart Meaning: I’m relieved

7. Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen Literally: peace, joy and omelette/pancake Meaning: everything’s hunky-dory

8. Kein Schwein war da Literally: No pig was there Meaning: Nobody was present/Nobody participated

9. Sie hat einen Vogel Literally: She has a bird Meaning: She’s crazy

10. Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof Literally: Life is no pony farm Meaning: Life isn’t easy

11. Er spielt die beleidigte Leberwurst Literally: He’s playing the offended liver sausage Meaning: He’s very resentful

12. Aller Anfang ist schwer Literally: All beginnings are difficult Meaning: The first step is always the hardest

13. Wie du mir, so ich dir Literally: Like you to me, so I to you Meaning: Tit for tat 

14. Ich glaub mein Schwein pfeift Literally: I think my pig whistles Meaning: I think I’m dreaming

Engelsgeduld: (lit.: angel's patience) great amount of patience

Feierabend: (lit.: party-evening) the rest of the day that remains after work

Fernweh: the desire/longing to travel to faraway places/ foreign countries

Fingerspitzengefühl: (lit.: fingertips-feeling) good skill in handling things/ sensitivity and empathy

Geborgenheit: more than safety, protection and invulnerability, it symbolises peace, warmth and calm you feel especially when you're with the people you're close to (e.g. family, friends)

Gemütlichkeit: feeling of comfort

Habseligkeiten: valuable and personally important possessions

Innerer Schweinehund: (lit.: inner pig-dog = weaker self) the part of a person that they have to overcome to be productive

Kitsch: objects with superficial beauty that are actually useless but are appreciated nonetheless

Konfliktfähigkeit: (lit.: conflict ability/skill) ability to deal with conflict / ability to constructively solve interpersonal conflicts

Kummerspeck: (lit.: grief/sorrow bacon (fat)) gained weight from emotional overeating (especially after a breakup)

Lebenslüge: (lit.: life's lie) a lie that you tell yourself to make life more bearable

Mitdenken: (lit.: with-thinking) ability to think for yourself and do more than what you were demanded to do / trying to find a conceptional solution to a problem together with other people

Sehnsucht: intense inner longing for somebody, something or a place

Schnapsidee: (lit.: schnapps idea) a ridiculous and crazy plan/idea you have while you are drunk or an idea that is so stupid that people think you had it while being drunk

Sprachgefühl: (lit.: language feeling) feeling/sense of language, instinctive feel for a certain language / intuitive feeling of what is linguistically appropriate

Stehaufmännchen: (lit.: little stand up man) someone who doesn't give up and begins anew

Torschlusspanik: (lit.: gate-closing-panic) the fear of missing something important / not being able to do some things (because you're too old)

Verschlimmbessern: (lit.: verschlimmern=exasperate, verbessern=improve) improve something for the worse / make something worse but with having had the intention of improving it

Vorführeffekt: (lit.: demo effect) the effect that something you're actually able to do doesn't work when you want to demonstrate it to other people

Waldeinsamkeit: (lit.: forest loneliness/solitude) the seclusion/solitude of the forest

Warmduscher: (lit.: warm showerer/ somebody who showers with warm water) a wimp / a person that doesn't like to leave their comfort zone

Weltschmerz: (lit.: world pain (world weariness)) gratuitous melancholia / kind of feeling experienced by someone who believes that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind / the feeling of anxiety caused by the ills of the world

and Word was with God, and the Word was God.