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"Hilfe, das Pferd frisst die heilige Kartoffel!"
Translation:Help, the horse is eating the holy potato!
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You should have faith, it is a real thing :) http://www.welt.de/regionales/berlin/article1972157/Glaeubige-halten-Kartoffel-fuer-Zeichen-Gottes.html
Thanks for sharing this. I remember seeing a similar story, from America, where someone had seen a holy face on their piece of breakfast toast. I couldn't remember if they had decided it was JC himself or the Virgin Mary ... so I Googled Holy Toast.
What I got was a lot of adverts for a stamp you can buy to emboss a picture of either one on each piece of toast you make ... and then, I guess, you eat it.
And now I'm speechless.
Wow! Or should I say holy s***! ? I think you can't translate the last English idiom directly word-for-word into any other language.
Now that got my interest, so I ran it through Context Reverso. Apparently, you can translate it word-for-word into German - but the French have their own variations on a theme .... none of which I plan to repeat here.
Maybe we should stick to heilige Kartoffeln :)
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Well, you can perfectly say "Je suis sans voix" (I'm left without a voice), which is a good and wholesome approximation (You meant "I'm speechless, or am I confused?)
You can work with The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch if you like.
Hilfe! Die Killerkaninchen von Caerbannog frißt die Heilige Handgranate von Antiochia!
Kaboom!
Oh, OK, macht nichts.
How does this sentence use frisst over isst? I thought fressen meant "to eat (meat)" or the like.
Fressen is used to talk about an animal eating while essen is used for humans. That is why frisst is used in this sentence and not isst.
Oh, so it has nothing to do with what is being eaten? Thanks! I did not know that!
Nope, it doesn't matter what it is eating. You're welcome, I hope this helps.
Of course, I suppose you can say a person "frisst" if you want to insult him over the way he eats.
Fressen refers to when an animal eats. It can be also used as an insult, for example "Halt die Fresse".
Or as a juvenily joke: "[Sollen wir] fressen [gehen]?" (heard the question "Fressen?" instead of "Essen?" from some "funny" colleagues)
Well, if you are a vegetarian... then maybe you'll use it so in a certainbl situation
It is a potato which is holy. For a real-life "example" see the most positively rated comments in this thread.
What I found most interesting is that, despite ending in 'el', Kartoffel is feminine
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https://www.cafe-lingua.de/deutsche-grammatik/genus-grammatisches-geschlecht.php
https://www.uni-due.de/~lge292/trainer/trainer/seiten/s525.html
I was just about to write, there is no gender rule concerning the ending "-el" . But then I found the third link - which I think is incorrect. It seems that you can find that somewhere on the internet.
But: The ending "-el" does not really help you to know the gender. Examples:
das: das Achtel, das Gemetzel, das Gedudel, das Überbleibsel, das Rudel,
die: (see PeterPan173079) , die Hantel, die Schüssel, die Gabel, die Rassel,
der: der (Stoff-) Wechsel, der Dussel, der Tölpel, der Schlüssel ...
As you can see by the given examples, the ending "el" is not specific.
Sometime I need help. I do not know why but I understand everything the man says but very little the woman says. Frustrating.
I don't think you should make fun out of peoples believs, it's only that christians are not agressive,but remember what happened to Charlie hebdo.Just a thought.
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@Malvazija: that would be soooo fantastic - if only it was true. Christians - and I am sad to say so - are not less aggressive than any non-Christian. History shows that religion does not create peace.
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Tribes are tribes regardless of their religion or lack of it. The wars with the greatest amount of loss of life and destruction had nothing to do with religion.
The current wars that we are interested in are about cultural differences some of which are reflected in their tribal religion. Most of the contention is about the local geography, how it is used and by whom
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This sentence is gibberish; I do not find it amusing. Childish perhaps. Added to that, the woman speaker's voice is indistinct. Why does Duo make learning German more difficult than is necessary?
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Actually, the sentence is pretty simple. Nothing difficult about it at all.
At this level, Duo students have less vocabulary and grammar than the average German speaking seven year old. How could the examples be anything but childish?
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Duo gives sentences that are amusing to several learning levels, including younger users. Having a "curve ball" like this one challenges you to think about the grammer and vocabulary and not guess.
