Germans like beer. They get confused about water.Take the sea. Germans make it very complicated. They call the sea das Meer. While the English call it the sea. The Dutch call it the zee. The Swedish talk about the sjö. All sounds pretty similar, no? Except than for the Germans.
But it even gets more confusing. Cause there are also the lakes. That's what the Germans then call der See. So you have the Bodensee. In the South of Germany. And that's than a lake.
Are you still with me?
Wait. They made it even more complicated. Cause they have also their Ostsee. And that's a sea. And a Nortsee. They just call it das Meer. Except when they have a proper conversation - cause then it becomes the Nortsee and the Ostsee.
Even my own German got confused by it today. Cause try to explain why the Northsee is a sea, while the Bodensee is a lake. He even had to conclude that there is a lake at Hannover with the wrong name - das Steinhudermeer. A lake with the name of a sea.
Yep. That's what you get when you want to make it complicated. Now you just don't know yourself anymore.
Germans... Stay with the beer. Oke?
2 comments:
...nothing to get confused about
DER see is a lake
DIE see is the ocean
like your blog,
greetings,
tom
Thanks Tom!
Looks to me it would not be bad to have you as my German teacher instead of my own German ;-)
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