Topic: German
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Funny German words

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKxg3sfnIxI

    There is just one little mistake in this short video: Sitzfleisch does not mean bum, it means endurance. As in: Um eine Sprache zu lernen braucht man Sitzfleisch.

    February 8, 2018

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    https://www.duolingo.com/Max.Em
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    "Sitzfleisch" refers to bum as "sitting meat" but is figuratively used to describe endurance. It's never used in the literal sense, anyway.

    February 8, 2018
    https://www.duolingo.com/Jonkobu
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    You can use it both, literally and figuratively, when referring to someone enduring a long meeting/sermon/lecture. That is also where the word (or its use) comes from

    February 9, 2018
    https://www.duolingo.com/Max.Em
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    Can you please give an example how you would use it in a literal sense or what the literal sense is for you? I just know it as "being able to sit somewhere for a long time".

    February 9, 2018
    https://www.duolingo.com/mainad

      "...für die Katz"

      for naught (lit: for the cat)

      Die ganze Arbeit war für die Katz! (all that work was for naught)

      February 10, 2018

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