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A friend of mine trying to move within germany and now learn the delucacy beauty of the german burucracy language
Nov 22, 2023 9:42 PM
Elgrandeburito
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A friend of mine trying to move within germany and now learn the delucacy beauty of the german burucracy language
prfesser
Is "lunacy" too strong of a term? Really, is it?
FixedsysLabs
They really like their compound words
MegatronPewPew
Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung
DappurDanMan
LuminoZero
Meme Context: This woman was just being told she won the Nobel Prize.
Merky600
Hey man, I had two years of German 1. German is like doing algebra in your head while talking.
endomorph
As a German: it indeed feels like that sometimes.
BellsTheorem
Reads like how you would spell the sound of starting rope start engine.
PreciousPotato
Then you’re doing it wrong. 🤔
Keifer6644
Gesundheit
craftyfox
WTF is Rent Debt?
orthodoxorthography
If you skipped out on rent before or have outstanding debts to former landlords, that goes on your credit score. The credit score authority offers a certificate to prove you're above board and debt free. A careful landlord will always demand a tennant certificate before renting to someone with a sketchy job history, for example.
jlist
According to my sister, who is fluent in German, the goal of German is to get the subject on the object as far apart from each other in a sentence as possible
PreciousPotato
She got that from Mark Twain. His essay on „The Awful German language.“ 🙂
TheShamkat
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.
AyatollahBahloni
Österreich : Abmeldezettel, Anmeldezettel. They know where you live...
Shaodyn
German: "Let's combine every word in a sentence into a gigantic unholy Franken-word!"
sakasiru
Nah, it's simply one thing = one word. You need one certificate and the rest of the word specifies what kind, just like in English, we just don't put confusing spaces between the descriptors that may leave it open which parts belong to each other, like "first hand job experience" lol
Shaodyn
That does seem like a much more logical method of doing things.
endomorph
Ein Hurra auf die Logik!
Santac99
The EU has recently decided to make an electronic wallet in order to help backward paper countries like Germany.
FeloniousMonk13
Scheisse!
LeeeB
*ß
GutstobeGnK
German language is a bit like Lego.
CelestialSea
Once again, words in German are not the same as other languages. When more than one word is used to describe a single object, the spaces in that word can be omitted. So while the word SEEMS confusing, it's actually a bunch of smaller words without the spaces between that we're used to.
TheDildoOfConsequences
Thank you for that little Fremdsprachkenntnisaufklärung.
Malloon
And your Fremdsprachenkenntnisaufklärungsdank.
endomorph
Be sure to send a Fremdsprachenkenntnisaufklärungsdankesschreiben.
NotUSAmerican
"Certificate of freedom from rent debt" as a term doesn't sound that much easier.
seliqui
Isn't it Mietschuldenbefreiungsbescheinigung?
ParallelParkingInABurka
Nope, Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung is correct. After all, its purpose is to confirm that you're free of rent debt - not to free you of rent debt, which is what your version would be doing. :)
geraltofriva
Guten Tag.
GravyEducation
Abend aber ja
GuitarBobMonterey
What's Deutsch for 'id'?
endomorph
Ausweis
Absani
Lichtbildausweis, usually your Personalausweis or any government issued ID.
LeeeB
"Perso" is the short form for Personalausweis
JericoJones23
I moved to Germany a few years ago. I still have to slow down to read road signs when I am driving.
LeeeB
Welcome!
WhyAreAllGoodNamesTaken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrcKzP4B6UE
whitebbwolf
noch nie gehört ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ParallelParkingInABurka
Ich hab's zum ersten Mal gehört als ich vor ein paar Monaten angefangen habe, nach einer neuen Wohnung zu suchen. Musste selbst als Deutsche über das Wortungetüm schmunzeln..
WiseMansFear
Hatte ich auch noch nicht, habs gegoogelt, gibts anscheinend wirklich :D
KoalaOnTheJuice
As someone who's somehow managed to learn German, the thing you have to realise is the German word is shorter than the English sentence.
WendyTheWendigo
Serious question; do Germans not utilise acronyms as much as English speakers?
paynoattentiontousernames
The German word IS the sentence.
GravyEducation
Not shorter than "Mother of God" though
EmergencyChocolate
Mutter Gottes
myr14d
German words are literally just sentences that have sucked in their gut while the pretty girl walks past them.
The701
I bet there's a German word for "the German word is shorter than the English sentence." :)
sakasiru
Effizienz
LeeeB
IconicM
Ok but what "the" do you use. :p
JereMonster12
This is actually pretty simple! These compound words take the gender of whatever the last part of the word is, so bescheinigung. Also any word ending with suffix -ung is feminine, so your 'the' would be 'die' 😊
PreciousPotato
Ha! I explained this to my Turkish husband only a few days ago. He’s always struggling with the articles.
relentlessimp
But only just.
jzbstl
Yes, but we don’t have to say all the words together in one breath.
SgtLemming
It'd sound pretty weird if you said "Rent Debt Freedom Certificate" with a breath in the middle of it.
endomorph
If it's 4 words or more, or, I guess, 3 long-ish words, we can make little breaks, ya know, accentuate and shit. So's not2 confuse 1another.
MoeMoep
And to register at the town hall you need to have a living room givers certificate (Wohnraumgeberbescheinigung) if you live rent based. I don't know about when you own something. I'm not that rich.
orthodoxorthography
You only need the Wohnraumgeberbescheinigung if you're renting. If you buy property, that's registered in your property's permanent record, along with any mortgage at the city planning office. You will never escape the magnifying glass of the beauraucrat.^^
VanessaWhips
what is registering at the town hall?
orthodoxorthography
If you move, even if it's within the same town, you have a 2 week window where you have to register your new address with the local town hall, or you incur a fine. We are fun like that. Like any person over 16 has to carry an ID card at all time and be ready to show it to a policeman upon request. That doesn't require any reason, they can just "papers, please" you. 🥰
oprager
German lawyer here: the last part is not completely true. You need to have an ID and you may be obliged to present it to an administrative agency upon request within a given time frame, but there's no law requiring you to carry it with you and show it to the police upon request.
orthodoxorthography
Fair enough, that's technically true, but the cops can fuck with you if you don't have ID on you, like taking you to the station for identification or requiring you to come and present it during business hours. And that's if you're not in a situation that requires you to have it on you explicitely, like driving a motor vehicle, working in certain fields and so on.^^
MoeMoep
While driving you need a driver's license which can also act as an id card.
discotheque42
Literally "rentdebtfreedomcertificate"
CptRobotNinja
"There's a word in German for that!". No there isn't. It's literally just a sentence describing it with all the spaces taken out!
Knightendae
To be exact it says 'certificate of freedom from rent debt'
discotheque42
Except "meit" is rent and "bescheinigung" is certification, so a direct literal translation is how I had it. But thanks for participating.
kaarbaakimgr
And we all just learned the difference between “translator” and “interpreter“
mymomsaregay
So it’s actually one syllable longer in English, but we just write it as several separate words with spaces between so it visually seems simpler to ppl who are used to languages that break up words like English does. Even though it’s longer in English.
Hangonthere
German here. It's true. Always keep in mind: These words really exist and they are totally normal here. Many germans would not comprehend why others think it could be funny for foreigners.
VodkaReindeer
Does your phone have trouble keeping them as a single word when you dictate them? I have that trouble with Siri and Finnish.
DukeDarkwood
Because the foreigners - at least the Anglophones - say them in exaggeratedly harsh accents. That said, I can take a great many of these German compounds in stride, but a four-word one seems a bit much, doesn't it?
littlecoatfatguy
Yeah they really just took out the spaces and called it one word.
snrsquishy101
I wonder if anyone is allowed to do that to make new words or if you have to be a certified new word inventor
superseriouscomments
Are you implying that 'Schulbus' isn't much more complex and difficult to understand than 'school bus'? How dare you?!
Groetgaffel
Yes, that's what compound words are. German do it, all the Scandinavian languages too. I fact, here in Sweden if someone puts spaces in what's supposed to be a compound word we call it English disease.
thisistheusernamethatneverendss
Only one word per thing.
TheDouche
Like antibabypille
4Astaroth
One word: "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" Any questions?
NatKingCole
My German is not good, but I like learning it. So, rather than Google this I'm going to take a total guess based on the 10% of the word I can make out. It's some sort of law about what beef...wears? Packaging??
4Astaroth
Good guess. It's the "law for transferring the task of supervision for labeling the beef" by translation. It has 63 letters and was the longest word in German. There are now longer words.
StatmanIbrahimovic
Nevertheless we persist.
littlecoatfatguy
dochhaltenwirnicht
endomorph
Nichtsdestotrotz bestehen wir fort.
BaWitda
Neverthelesswepersist.
Amouthfulofhornets
NotSomoneElse68
The compound words are fine. It makes sense and is easy to understand. I really only have 6 problems with German.
NotSomoneElse68
Der, Die, Das, Dem, Des, Den
StatmanIbrahimovic
I thought you were going to say a 6wordlongword lol
Soulshade
Thats the german language in a nutshell
agonarch
I love how many things are kinda like pigs, or at least like pigs enough for german to use it as half its name.