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.

[–] XurXipXiZap@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Doppelgänger

[–] this_is_router@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

For the chess people: Zugzwang and Zwischenzug!

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But surely eigenspaces were discovered by Dr. Eigen. Right?

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And don't forget the famous Binomi brothers.

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who discovered the binomial distribution? Of course. Although they are probably not as famous as Prof. Normal who came up with the Normal distribution. No, wait...

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

They've discovered the binomial formulas too.

[–] uebquauntbez@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

(German) Angst Apfelstrudel Kindergarten Oberlichte ...

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 0 points 9 months ago (2 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.

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That sounds hilarious

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For context: Germans call mobile phones "handys"

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I know. I wonder why, though. It sounds English.

[–] Enkrod@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's a pseudo-anglicism, like Oldtimer (antique car), Homeoffice (work from home) and Flipper (pinball machine).

Pseudo-anglicisms arise when a languages lexical composites are known in a non-native population without perfect knowledge of the actual vocabulary. All the words above are build out of perfectly fine english composites, just put together in a way that "feels" english to Germans.

There are also pseudo-germanicisms in english too by the way, the NYT had an article about "Freudenfreude" which was supposed to be a german word with the opposite meaning of Schadenfreude. But while it would be a logical german composite-word, it doesn't exist as such. "Freudenfreude" is only ever found in english literature.

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I brought the beamer in my body bag.

[–] muggedTassi@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm scared to ask, but what's a body bag in German? I've never heard that one used before.

[–] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

it's a Rucksack, but with an english sounding name. 🙄

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Beamer is a projector, right?

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Yep.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Iceberg

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Really?

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I mean the English usually don't call mountains Berg, right? Berg is German for mountain. Ice of course being Eis. And we like compound words.

[–] Pancito@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But it's Berg in the Scandinavian languages, too.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

They are germanic languages after all. There are many words you'll find in German and e.g. Norwegian, especially if you overlook slight spelling differences (endings, v or f, s or z,... )

[–] tkonicz@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nagelbrett. https://coenbrothers.fandom.com/wiki/Nagelbett

[–] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

das Nagelbrett hat mit deinem verlinkten Nagelbett aber nichts zu tun, brudi.

[–] scorpionix@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Schadenfreude

Zeitgeist

Kindergarten

[–] the_wise_wolf@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bremsstrahlung

[–] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

was soll das sein?

[–] aaaaaaaaargh@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Das ist, wenn du auf Toilette warst, die Spülung es aber nicht ganz schafft, dein Werk verschwinden zu lassen und stattdessen an dessen Oberfläche am Porzellan, der sogenannten "Bremsspur", kollidierendes Wasser nach oben an deinen Allerwertesten abstrahlt.

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Strahlung, die beim Abbremsen von Partikeln entsteht.

https://www.spektrum.de/lexikon/physik/bremsstrahlung/1974

[–] dukatos@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Halt!

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Hammerzeit!

[–] ebikefolder@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Abseiling

[–] voodoocode@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

First orderly an abseiling

[–] Pancito@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Gesundheit

Poltergeist

Spiel

Stool ( Stuhl )

Rucksack

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] CoconutKnight@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

...German even is my native language and I didn't get it :((

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't think I heard Gesundheit used in English much, though

[–] theDuesentrieb@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

It is usually used as an alternative to the religiously framed "bless you" when someone sneezes

[–] CoconutKnight@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

is it not "new-shwan-steen" or "new-shwan-styne"?

[–] CoconutKnight@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

not quite, but close :D

"Neu" is pronounced like "noi" as in noise rather than "new". "Shwan" is great. Just keep in mind, the "a" is quite elongated. "Stein" is close to "styne" but in german "st" often creates a "sht"-sound. It's quite subtle. So I guess shtyne?

So all together that would be Noi-shwan-shtyne. What an abomination to look at. One of the harder words to get right for sure xD

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guess mine would be kaput

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Kaputt*

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Probably a mistake that got so common that it is now accepted as correct

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Zeitgeist

Spiel

Schadenfreude

Kindergarten

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In mathematics:

Eigenvektor

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