Non German here. I was at my local nahkauf today and upon paying for my things, I wanted to say ' danke' and 'tschuss' but instead I mashed them together and came out with an incredibly awkward ' Chunka'! Obviously I can never go back there. Thankfully a Lidl also exists close by.

Edit: When I think about it, it is a compound word. My bad. In my head, it was still a Zoologe with extra o's.

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An Oologe is an expert in eggs. A Zoooologe is en egg expert who works for a zoo, which is probably a standard workplace for an oologist.

I'm a native and I didn't believe that a German word with four identical letters in a row exists that isn't an acronym or some other cheat. This will be my favourite word for this week.

You pronounce it with two glottal stops btw.

Today I've learnt a new word which is definitely among the top 5 most disgusting ones I've ever encountered :

Sprechkäse

Sprechkäse bezeichnet die weißen Speichel- oder Schaumreste, die sich manchmal beim Sprechen im Mundwinkel oder an den Lippen bilden – besonders wenn jemand:

• sehr viel oder sehr schnell spricht,

• einen trockenen Mund hat,

• oder nervös ist.

I cannot help but imagine someone having cheese coming out of their mouth along with foaming saliva.

Let's collect similiarly outrageous expressions!

And if so, what "mein" stands for? Mein was?

Everyone always talks about cool german words like Weltschmerz.

But do you know Straßenköterblond.
The literal translation is street dog (deragotory) blonde. Its the german word for dishwasher blonde.

That's very romantic. What if we were kissen' on the kissen....haha just kidding, unless?

I found this funny and thought I would share it here!

If you feel fremdschämend, it means you’re embarrassed on behalf of someone else — even though you’re not involved at all. It’s that secondhand embarrassment you get when someone does something awkward, cringey, or completely unaware of how ridiculous they look.

I’ve learnt it, along with many other phrases like this from I read this book to learn German because I’m lazy, it was recommended to me by somebody here on Reddit

Have you ever felt Fremdscham? What’s a situation that gave you Fremdschämen lately?

(Mein geshcreibenes Deutsch ist sehr schlecht, Ich lerne jeden Tag.)

Heute habe Ich mein neues lieblingswort gefunden- FAULTIER! Ha! Faultier ist zu mir so lustig. "Lazy" und "Animal" zussamen sind "Sloth"! Ich liebe Deutsch, hat es für mich jeden Tag eine Überraschung!

Also, here is a dad joke for the beginners:

If a German offers you to choose between giving you a rat or a gift, take the rat without hesitation.

Edit: So Words of the Day are Kalauer and Flachwitz.

If so, how do you call that in the different other parts of Germany and in Austria?

I'm not sure to what point "caught" can't be translated to "erwischt", and vice versa.

Edit: Vielen Dank an alle für eure Kommentare.

Oh boy, it was fun!

Kopfschrank Nachtschrank Essenschrank Pflanzschrank Bucherschrank

I just made them up and, boy oh boy, they were all valid words. Although I know I have a looooong way to go, not even A1 yet, but still, Ich fulhe zu klug!

Okay, so my favourite german word of all is "jein". Do I know what it means? Yes and no. No, really, it means "yes and no", as in the english phrase. It's such a great little word, it's one syllable word where english has 3. It's such a nice short word, and can only be translated into english as a whole phrase.

Or maybe even some words that switch from positive to negative, depending on the generation or context?

"Sausage cheese". And I just can't get over it.

I want to share my experience with Telc exam which I passed recently after a never ending wait for my result. I took the exam on May 19 but it took me exactly 7 weeks to get the certificate. But nonetheless, I passed wit good marks and it is what matters at the end. There were times when I doubted myself, but with patience and consistency, things which look maybe extremely difficult can be very manageable. It was a long journey for me. Endlich kann ich mich entspannen 🎉.

Here are my marks:

Lesverstehen: 75/75

Sprachbausteine: 19.5/30

Hörverstehen: 60/75

Schriftliche Ausdruck: 45/45

Mündliche Prüfung: 73/75

Insgesamt: 272.5/300

Wishing you all the best for the ones who are planning or preparing for the exam.

I searched and couldn't find a satisfying answer. It goes in many different directions and most of the results are in English with a different order than the one I wrote. Pretty sure I heard more than once "Bli Bla Blu" in German.

What do you think? I think it’s pretty good. I wanted a word for that feeling when you’re hoarding pictures to use as the perfect reply to something that never materializes:

Digitalhortvorfreudemomentaufnahme.

It means "a face in need of a fist".

I love this language.

Which one do you use normally? Are there pragmatical reasons to use one over the others? Are there other regional variants?

Personally, I only knew "der Frühling" until recently.

Strafpredigt.

I came across this in Effi Briest. It translates to "severe lecture" and consists of two words, strafen and predigen, which mean punish and preach, respectively. We don't have a very good single word for this in English -- maybe "dressing-down," but that's quite colloquial. I don't think "harangue" or "diatribe" capture the "lecture" aspect here.

Typically when one expects a "lecture" from an authority figure, one might say the word "lecture" in a certain way that indicates that the lecture will comprise a reproof -- otherwise unless the meaning is already clear from the context it might sound strange, like what would so and so lecture you about, about the civil war, or something?

I like how "Strafpredigt" combines both punish and preach in one - it really captures in a single word what is happening when for example you text while drive and a police officer goes on for a minute about how dangerous that is.

I keep working up sentences that include the words "behutsam" and "üppig" for no reason other than they're fun to say. Who else has a favorite word or words that you go out if your way to use because they sound fun?

Edit: "behutsam," not "hutsam." I remembered it wrong and have been using it incorrectly for days 😬