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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

These memes are much like health care... As an american I dont get it.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Please speak Dutch in the classroom.

Lol easy bro

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Nein, du kriegst dein Scheiß Fahrrad nicht zurück!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Even though I studied German for years idioms and sentence structure still throw me off. I tried to translate that looking up only the words I didn't remember and figured "dein Scheiss Fahrrad" was "your shit bike" and Kriegen is to catch (or get I guess in this context), so I was like "No, you catch your shit bike not back" doesn't make sense grammatically in English, so I put it into Google Translate and it translated it as "No, you won't get your damn bike back". Maybe it's because I learned High German and only ever used it in formal settings 95% of the time but it still throws me off, I have a hell of a time trying to understand spoken German because I don't have the time to parse it mentally most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

in case you need context: German soldiers famously took dutch peoples bikes during the occupation in WW2

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah thanks, I didn't no that.

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