You've missed the glowing-pear

@daleburrell6273

4 жыл бұрын

...I've never heard THAT one-!!

@Qexilber

4 жыл бұрын

Dale Burrell lightbulb

@daleburrell6273

4 жыл бұрын

@@Qexilber That's cute- I'll have to remember that one-!!

@cooky51966

4 жыл бұрын

@@daleburrell6273 turn the bulb upside down... it looks like a pear!

@daleburrell6273

4 жыл бұрын

@@cooky51966 I believe you!!!

Since the apple is the 'basic' fruit, it is often used as synonyme for fruit in general. Thus, the word 'Apfelsine', but also e.g. the English word 'pineapple' or the Italian words 'melone' (big apple) or 'pomodoro' (golden apple). And don't forget about the 'Erdapfel' (pomme de terre). There are many other examples in indoeuropean languages.

@markbernier8434

4 жыл бұрын

Originally had the connotation of spherical as well. In English, there are a lot of words with "Pea" in them that make no sense until you find out it originally had to do with size as much as what something was. Thus you have the very odd Peameal that is actually ground corn.

@oscare.quiros6349

4 жыл бұрын

I would have thought that banana was the "basic fruit"!

@puntinounterwegs

4 жыл бұрын

@@oscare.quiros6349: well, bananas were completely unknown to speakers of most indoeuropean languages for most of the time. But the apple is part of their diet for thousands of years already.

@christiank1251

4 жыл бұрын

"Apfelsine"/orange, apple from China - doesn't "Pfirsich"/peach similarly stem from Latin "malus persicus", apple from Persia?

@puntinounterwegs

4 жыл бұрын

@@christiank1251: yes, exactly.

Bei uns sagt man: Wer glaubt, dass Projektleiter Projekte leiten, glaubt auch, dass Zitronenfalter Zitronen falten. Guten Rutsch... 🍀

@darkiee69

4 жыл бұрын

That was a good one.

3:14...that term is used in the U.S. too- along with the term: "road apple"!!

It's funny, here in Hungary it's not "horse apple" but "horse lemon" (lócitrom) ^^

@daleburrell6273

4 жыл бұрын

Really?! That's interesting-!

@peterkoller3761

4 жыл бұрын

hm. it definitely does not *look* like lemons - maybe the Hungarians found out it *tastes* like lemon...

@daleburrell6273

4 жыл бұрын

@@peterkoller3761 ...I have no idea- do YOU?!

@Ordo1980

4 жыл бұрын

@@peterkoller3761 BTW at least they more like lemon than apple... First the Germans should explain themselves :P

@wernerhiemer406

4 жыл бұрын

So when live gives lemon ... Jucheeeeee (also gibt es Jauche)

In the Midwest we call horse poop “Road Apple”

@Foxcb27

4 жыл бұрын

We are calling those as "doughnuts" in czech :D

@anonb4632

4 жыл бұрын

I just call it horseshit.

@kimrocksthetrees

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, road apples or horse apples.

@majordbag2

4 жыл бұрын

You beat me to it and here's a fun fact; Dungeons and Dragons, which was invented in in the Midwest (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin) has a charisma damaging spell called "cast road apples" in which horse shit is thrown at a target. Edit: Oh yeah, if you ever visit a place in the USA that serves "rocky mountain oysters", try them; they are the most delicious seafood.

@anonb4632

4 жыл бұрын

@@majordbag2 They're bull's testicles.

You are the apple of my eye. Translation: I have an affection for you.

@allanrichardson1468

4 жыл бұрын

That phrase is used several times in the 1611 King James Bible, but the Hebrew words translated as “apple” have other meanings, so it’s more likely an idiomatic English phrase that preceded this Biblical translation. Whether it appears in the corresponding verses of any German translations I don’t know; a German speaker could look these verses up to find out. Deuteronomy 32:10 Psalm 17:8 Proverbs 7:2 Lamentations 2:18 Zechariah 2:8

@jpdj2715

4 жыл бұрын

Are you talking to Ms. Funny Bunny?

@PSchearer

4 жыл бұрын

I can't not mention a line from some old British comedian: She was the apple of his eye and the pomegranate of his nose.

@busTedOaS

4 жыл бұрын

That's not a german saying. "Apple of the eye" is simply "eyeball".

We use road apple for horse poop in English

@anonb4632

4 жыл бұрын

Never heard that one.

@dfhepner

4 жыл бұрын

In Cheyenne, Wyoming a store had a fruit crate with road apples in fancy paper cups for sale.

@charlies.5777

4 жыл бұрын

@Randy Wiesendanger Or a🐮 cow🍟 chip.

@charlies.5777

4 жыл бұрын

Same here. We always go with road(not horse) apple.

I was stationed at Erlangen for 4 years, from 87 to 91. I love your channel. Makes me remember my time there. Have you ever gone to the big Fest there?

@Ttirp77

4 жыл бұрын

Bergkirchweih: I used to live there as well - around the same time as you ;-) I started studying in 1988 at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and I even met some Americans at "Ferris Barracks" ...

@johnthomas2485

4 жыл бұрын

@@Ttirp77 I used to hang out with a bunch of students. There was an American girl, lived on the 1st floor of her dorm. For the life of me I can't remember her name. I dated a French girl named Martin.

I've learnt a lot of new words and expressions this time. Great video!!

1:55 Actually, some people think that the “Apple” of Eden wasn’t an apple, but a pomegranate!

@carudatta

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, the Bible text does not mention any specific kind of fruit. Just fruit that grow on a tree.

@annak1371

4 жыл бұрын

If there was only 1 tree, in the midst of the garden which grew fruit that was forbidden, and the garden of Eden was sealed off from the rest of the world, then there shouldn't exist that forbidden fruit today.

@carudatta

4 жыл бұрын

Obviously. It was the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which doesn't exist at all, except metaphorically.

@annak1371

4 жыл бұрын

@@carudatta Just curious, but... you read the Bible, but don't believe?

@carudatta

4 жыл бұрын

Never mind what I believe, but I certainly don't think there's a literal garden where God used to go for evening walks, and where the ancestors of literally all humans conversed with a literal talking snake.

"Kohldampf haben" = being hungry Menschentraube = Crowd of people Melone = a type of hat Abrissbirne = Wrecking ball

Guten Tag. In Texas we have a tree that has a fruit called the Horse Apple, because that is what the fruit looks like. I discovered your site while I was looking for help with learning to speak German. Two years ago I married a German woman (Friederike) from Augsburg, Bavaria. She has worked in the US for 11 years and we live in Texas. My first trip to Germany we went to her home town. Bavaria is beautiful,and the bakeries are incredible. I found Germans are polite, family oriented, and take pride in their cities and villages, and keep things clean. I I told my wife that I would be happy if she wanted to move back to Augsburg, which is why I am learning to speak and write German. As I have viewed your videos, I have learned about the German people, the language, and enjoyed laughing at your comments and topics, especially the one about German insults. Who said German's don't have a sense of humor. Thank you so much for all your hard work, I am now subscribed to your site, and look forward to your next video.

ich war so abgelenkt von der Fussel im Haar! Und dem Scheinwerfer Licht ^^ Wünsche aber auch guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr ....

I always give your videos a thumbs up because you ask so nicely.

Ja hast du einen Sprung in der Marille? (Marille= östr. für Aprikose, etwas ausgebaut auch Wachauer Krankheit genannt, da die Wachau ein Marillenanbaugebiet ist), auch Kürbis oder Melone für Kopf hab ich schon gehört. Statt Kartoffel hört man in Westösterreich auch Grundbirn, d.h. eine Birne, die im Grund, also im Boden wächst. Daraus haben sogar die Slowenen und Serben "krompir", die Kroaten "krumpir", und die Ungarn "krumpli" gemacht. Das Wort "Marille" hat wohl den entgegengesetzten Weg genommen, dort heißt sie nämlich "marelica". Dann fällt mir auch noch der Erdbeermund ein. War das genug Obst? Srečno novo leto! :)

I hope you have a Happy New Year to Trixie

In Danish we also use birne, pear, pære for the brain, but in a positive way, a light bulb, also called a pear, which lights up when you get a bright idea. But also in a derogative way, his light is not very bright,

@eagle1de227

4 жыл бұрын

Stimmt! die Glühbirne!

@wernerhiemer406

4 жыл бұрын

@@eagle1de227 Um ehrlich zu sein war das genau, was mir zuerst einfiel.

@Midnight.Creepypastas

4 жыл бұрын

That kinda makes sense.

@helloweener2007

4 жыл бұрын

In German it can also be used for both depending with the context it is used.

@wernerhiemer406

4 жыл бұрын

Also former german cancelor Dr. Helmut Kohl were called "Birne".

Love your eye makeup today!

Guten Morgen trixi schönen Rutsch ins neue Jahr

"Erik, do you want a pear?" Erik disappear. Ba dum tss.

Thanks for brightening my night!

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree ,a reference to how your kids do similar things to their parents

A dialectal word (south of Sweden) for horse poo is Hästapäror = Horse potatos or horse pears. Swedish women don't have strawberry weeks, they have lingonberry weeks. Orange skin is used the same way as in Germany, and so does peach skin. You can be appel cheeked too. Or have a potato nose ( I know, it's not a fruit or a berry)

Die Rettungstraube. A Rescue grape. It describes when there is more rescue personell in less than five meters around a car with trapped persons than necessary. It sometimes happen in the action and the term is used in training to teach to avoid it from happening.

Happy new year to the entire family!

3:05 We have a few equivalents in English: Road apple (horse droppings), cow pie, and my favourite "dog eggs". 7:11 Funny Germans call the vulva a plum, in the UK we say 'plums' when referring to testicles.

We also in the US call Pferdscheiße 'Horse apples' or 'Road apples', except here they are always green, not brown.

Omggg you're favorite apple's are Granny Smiths? Mine too and everyone always says it's too sour 🥺

Love you and your videos ❤

In Pennsylvania, we call the horse poop left by Amish buggies on the road, "Horse Apples". So, maybe the PA Germans (PA Dutch/Deutsch) brought it with them.

@redleg56

4 жыл бұрын

And where my daughter lives in Chester County, close to the Lancaster County line, you learn to read it to know when you are about to overtake a buggy.

Happy new year!!!!

The head is not only be "Birne" but also "Rübe" or "Nuß". If you want to have some fun, ask in a shop for "Kopfnüsse". PS:"Spinatwachtel" is not a kind of bird.

The "pferdaepfel" one reminded me that here in Australia I've heard "baa baa beans" used to jokingly refer to sheep poop.

such a personality. I think you should be more famous some day.

Words i missed were "Bananenrepublik" and "die sieben Zwetschgen". :-)

We use horse apple as the word for it in the upper Midwest. But a lot of Germans settled in that area too.

die Beispiele unter "anpflaumen" - ist das das, was Eric gelegentlich hört? ;)

Here in Wisconsin we also call them horse apples or road apples left behind by Amish horse carts..

You forgot the Glühbirne :D but funny video. Like every time :)

Hmm. There's a saying: To be the Apple of my eye! Maybe that's connected!?.. Good wishes for the new year!

Im polnisch Zitronen-falter ist zitronen Sommer-blättchen „latolistek cytrynek” und im kaschubisch Orange ist „Apfelzyna”.

"Eye lychee" would have been more logical

@evaschubert-litz5401

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣😂

Wonder if the expression "The apple of my eye" came from? I've heard that expression about horse poop in English too.

We also have fun expression for horse poop in Czech. We call it "horse donuts"

7:26 - gott war das knacken der Traube geil xD ASMR pur xD

Adam's apple is also in my language and orange is called "appelsiini" which is very close to "apfelsine"

I'm amazed with your command of the American/English language! You would be so much fun to visit with!

1:17 if you have the opportunity watch Rick&Morty in german. Rick sounds A LOT more like a mad scientist! I saw it in my hotel TV in Hamburg this past october and it was amazing xD

We should call the eyeball Auglitschi.

When I was a kid, horse poop was called “road apples” and cow poop was called “cow pies”

Could not stop smiling :) very interesting and FUNNY

Hey Trixi, wieder ein tolles Video. Allerdings würde ich bei der Weintraube nicht mitgehen, da steht das Wort Traube für die Form, wodurch die Weintraube so benannt wurde. Da gab es den Begriff schon früher als die Frucht. Just my two cents. Guten Rutsch euch allen.

@eagle1de227

4 жыл бұрын

Hmmm, da es die Frucht schon seit 2000 Jahren in "Deutschland" gibt (die Römer haben sie mitgebracht) hab ich mit der Aussage meine Schwierigkeiten. Try another sentence...

Horse apples here in Alberta are called Road Apples.

Happy new year everyone...lick those fruits

I like your 'smarty-pants sidekick' glasses!

I've watched a lot of Hogan's Heroes. And one fruit containing German word I remember is apple strudel (Apfelstrudel). Now I'm wondering if you're allowed to watch that show in Germany.

In French we say "Tomber dans les pommes" : (fall in the apples) with means for us : To faint Otherwise your video is just amazing like every time Und frohe Weihnachten

@daleburrell6273

4 жыл бұрын

Really? That's interesting-!

@nikiallard8872

4 жыл бұрын

@@daleburrell6273 it is a kind of ironic thing or what

@daleburrell6273

4 жыл бұрын

@@nikiallard8872 Not at all!

@nikiallard8872

4 жыл бұрын

@@daleburrell6273 srry then

@daleburrell6273

4 жыл бұрын

@@nikiallard8872 ...I imagine that "falling in the apples" would HURT(?)

In czech are as apples called tomatoes. Literaly as paradise apples. And in some czech regions (mostly at the east) are called potatoes as earth apples.

@cigmorfil4101

4 жыл бұрын

And in English the tomato is also known as the Love apple.

I'm a big fan of Granny Smith Apples too. Good for you.

Trixi, we call them "horse apples" too. And we also (rarely these days) refer to our kids, whom we are proud of as "the apple of my eye"... So, not so weird with your colloquial isms.

@hrdkor79

4 жыл бұрын

We also have peaches and onions, referring to the female posterior. And without trying to be too off putting... We also use peach for the same thing as you use plum. Lol

It's possible that in ancient times they didn't really have a word for "sphere" and sort of made do.

In English we use the term "road apples" to refer to horse droppings and if you are very fond of someone we say they are the "apple of your eye". In French, when someone has a very smooth skin we say they have a "teint de pêche" or "peach complexion" and "poire" (pear) is also used to refer to the head.

In the U.S., there's an expression: "upset the apple cart", which means: "create total chaos".

@theoneandonlylordfarquaad3361

4 жыл бұрын

I’m American and I’ve never heard that one before

@daleburrell6273

4 жыл бұрын

@@theoneandonlylordfarquaad3361 You must be really young, then.

@SomeoneYouDontKnowOfficial

4 жыл бұрын

What backwater 1800's town are you from? Haha Not hating, just have not heard that phrase anywhere in the US ever.

@hihu7200

4 жыл бұрын

@@SomeoneYouDontKnowOfficial That phrase was used in the 1920s to about 1940s. Rather than pull a 'tude, why not learn some the older English sayings? You don't have to use them. Just know them and see them for what they are-- part your native language's heritage.

@SomeoneYouDontKnowOfficial

4 жыл бұрын

@@hihu7200 I mean hey, everything's a cycle right? It's been almost 100 years TIME TO BRING IT BACK!

Plum is also a common term used in southern England (London and surrounding area) to describe someone who is not very bright.

@cigmorfil4101

4 жыл бұрын

Or very posh - talking with a plum in their mouth.

Where did the hater sidekick get all the money from to hire smartypants sidekick? Did Eric forget to empty his pockets? :D Guten Rutsch wünsche ich dir 😊

Enable subtitles, go to 8:07. I heard: "lemon folder translates to der Zitronenfalter in German" KZread corrects sentence to: "lemon folder translates to t torn and feta in German"

Looking very fruity today, Trixi 😉

I thought for sure you were gonna mention Glubirne.

I remember as a kid hearing horse poop referred to as "road apples"

apple of my eye referenced below is good British English as much as American - earliest use 1588 according to an online dictionary but was originally the pupil of the eye ...

Look. It's just not fair. You're smart, funny, and beautiful. Now you are balancing fruit on your head.

Huhu Trxi! :-) I missed Paul Zech's "Erbeermund"

@eagle1de227

4 жыл бұрын

Ja, vielleicht liegt's auch an der Region, aber Erdbeerwoche hab ich noch nie gehört. Erdbeermund schon ;-)

Ich liebe deine Videos

@DontTrustTheRabbit

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, dankeschön! :)

In British Cockney mince pies is a slang word for eyes.

Zitronenfalter = "falter" (used for various butterflies) comes from "to falter" the slightly hesitant, up and down way of flying, not from folding anything, oh and the lemon part? well, it's bright yellow! So it's the bright yellow flapping thing.... so much better than Zitronenfalter ;-)

@eagle1de227

4 жыл бұрын

Naaah

What do yu call a light bulb in German? A glow pear. Einen guten Rutsch .....

@pierreabbat6157

4 жыл бұрын

Glühbirne. Just what I was thinking.

@hihu7200

4 жыл бұрын

That is a cool way of thinking about a light bulb.

I certainly didn't know what the plum was referring to 😲

I love how the word "Bartstoppeln" (beard stubbles) SOUNDS!! It SOUNDS SO GERMAN (in a kick-ass sort of way, especially if a middle-aged German MAN speaks it)!! I LOVE it!! It's so cool!! Some other Deutsche Woerter (German words) that I think also have this same quality are: die Streichholzer (strike woods [matches]), das Holz (wood), and der Besenstiel (broom stick [handle, stem]). I would love to see a Beavis and Buthead pyromaniac cartoon where they would be having one of their spasm attacks with them shaking their arms up and down (ab) violently while shrieking out German words such as die Streichholzer, brennen (to burn), and der Brand (fire)!!

Trixi is the apple of my eye.

Wow every one of these except the plum and grape expressions has a one to one corresponding expression in Norwegian as well. We even use "appelsin" as the only word for orange (the fruit, the colour is "oransje"). Makes me wonder why English doesn't have these, as they most likely are old Germanic expressions.

@88michaelandersen

4 жыл бұрын

Probably half to two thirds of the expressions that she gave work in English too.

I have heard the phrase, "Horse Apples" used in American English.

Also in English when things start going wrong we can say they have gone "pear shaped"

@jej3451

4 жыл бұрын

that's a specifically British idiom, though

@erictaylor5462

4 жыл бұрын

@@jej3451 What language do they speak in England?

@jej3451

4 жыл бұрын

@@erictaylor5462 British English

@Markle2k

4 жыл бұрын

Nope. It's English, generally.

@erictaylor5462

4 жыл бұрын

@@jej3451 So, from my comment yo actually have no way of knowing, really, weather I am speaking of an American term "pear shaped" or an British term? Actually, it doesn't even matter, because "pear shaped" is *NOT* specifically British, because it is *ALSO* used in the US. Don't know for sure, but I believe it is also used in Australia. It may also be used in Canada, New Zealand, and *EVERY OTHER* English speaking country. Note I said, "In English" referring to the language. Not sure if *YOU* guys use this fruit based term, Limey. FYI "Limey" comes from British sailors eating limes to prevent scurvy, because it was your countryman who fist discovered the cause if this disorder, and found a way to prevent it.

"Birne" was also a slang name for former federal chancellor Helmut Kohl.

One of the extremely interesting things I realized from watching Trixie's videos is how much more English and German are parallel than they seemed at first. They so often do the same thing in alternate ways, even though English has been stripped of its former Germanic forms. German will jam several words together to make one, where English will leave the spaces between the words, and perhaps put in some helper words between to vaguely accomplish what German readily does with word forms. So it is not likely that apple or other fruit will be part of another English word. The logic behind the two language however is very similar. Presumably apple occurs in some German words, which are not about apples, because at some earlier time apple might be used with a more generic meaning. It is too much of a stretch to say apple is being used figuratively, as Trixie points out. English, on the other hand, has very little sign of this generic type of apple today. English does have "The apple of his eye." due to a line from Shakespeare. But others have pointed out it doesn't mean the same thing today (the women=apple of his affection), because the apple was the pupil of the eye in the quote. Trixie's German example has apple being the whole eye. The difference between the pupil of the eye and the eye itself is a lot less than today's idea of apple and eye in English. Looking at the top of an apple with the stem removed, you might very well see this as similar to the pupil of an eye. In English today, potatoes have eyes, but not apples. Storms have an eye (the center), but not pupils (the center of the eye.) Today potatoes and storms do not have apples, but they may have in Shakespeare's time. Words going from generic to specific, and the other way, are common in language, but sometimes they do evolve in a way that doesn't go back. Returning to fruit, English has "You are mixing apples and oranges," meaning that two similar things, in this case, must be treated differently. These apples aren't apples (the fruit) and these oranges aren't oranges (the fruit). In old movies, a tomato could be a pretty girl, and a top banana could be a person in charge of everything. I think this came from risque girlie shows, obsoleted by today's standards, where the tomatoes were the girls, and the top banana was the comedian MC.

Weird words uses when I seen the title and the 🍐 I was thinking something crazy at first.

In Latin orange is citrium Lusitaniae which literally translates as Portuguese Lemon

I'm surprised you didn't mention the word for light bulb: Glühbirne. Or you mentioned it and I missed it. You certainly wouldn't want to balance one of those on your head and then drop it!

This prompted me to look up "grapefruit". It turns out the somewhat clustersed fruit reminded someone of grapes.

Eyeballs are so edible. Americans also call them horse apples in some places

I've heard horse apples used in English too

Road Apple is used here in Canada as well for horse crap.

Brimstone butterfly. That's new to me, but might be my new favorite euphemism.

@88michaelandersen

4 жыл бұрын

Is it a euphemism? I typed it into Google and Google came back with a type of butterfly with that name.

7:04 "...yall of your beard stubbles..."

You can refer to a dog turd in British English as a “Dogs Egg” sometimes.

Many of those expressions can be found in Italian as well - we also use pears as a slang word for boobs ("Guarda che pere!" = "Look at those boobs!") We also have "pomo della discordia" ("discord's apple", as per the myth of Paris' judgement, meaning the thing people are fighting about) and "frutto proibito" (forbidden fruit - usually alluding to sex, but also whatever people might want that is firbidden or should not be pursued.)

I hope you are really really happy. Because I liked this video very much.

Erdapfel, 2 Bedeutungen: Kartoffel und Globus

What about the dirt apple aka Kartoffel

That was the apple of my eye