1. Did you know that the German word for anticipation literally means "pre-joy"?
2. Or that the German word for spotlight means "ray thrower"?
3. When it's the end of the work day, it's "feierabend" — which means celebration evening!
4. And a group of people is a "menschentraube," or "people grape."
5. Germans also have a word for "bosom friends:"
6. And if you're asking for someone's time frame, you're literally asking them for a "time window."
7. And the word for vocabulary literally means "word treasure." How cool is that?
8. And the word for a single point or snapshot in time just means "moment photograph."
9. The fact that there's a word for having a purpose in life, and that it translates to "life content" feels so 2018...
10. And the German word for slipstream makes way more sense, since it just means "wind shadow."
11. If you're talking about having an affair, you're really just writing a "bettgeschichte," or "bed story."
12. And how cool is it to be a "wellenreiter," or literally, "wave rider"?
13. The word for a person in charge translates literally to "power-haver," which feels right:
14. And if you are weary of the world, you have "weltschmerz," or "world pain."
15. The fact that the German word for gloves means "hand shoes" is just way too cute:
16. And if you're picturing things in your imagination, you're running the "kopfkino," or your "head cinema."
17. If you have stagefright, the German word for it means "spotlight fever."
18. And finally, the word treat in German translates literally to "palatal pleasure."
This article was first published in English.
This post was translated from German.