Top 10 Funny German Words And Phrases

1. Ich hab keine Lust

Likewise, when you say “I have no lust” in German it doesn’t mean you’re impotent, it just means you cant really be bothered to do anything.

2. Fahrt, Einfahrt and Notfahrt

Has nothing to do with breaking wind, breaking wind once or never breaking wind. Fahrt means ride or trip, Einfahrt means entrance and Notfahrt means emergency trip, apparently. Can a Notfahrt be to the bathroom? What’s that? I can’t put that on the website? But I’ve already done so.

3. Kohlensäure

I initally thought this must be some kind of German dinosaur like Kohlensaurus Rex but it just means bubbles. In your soda.

4.Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.

This is a law that refers to the correct labelling of beef. Obviously considered important enough that there’s a (very long) word for it. Then again, there has been that horsemeat scandal in Europe lately. 

5. Kugelschreiber. 

In English it’s a pen, in French a stylo, in Spanish a pluma. Only in Germany would such an everyday object have so many syllables. It’s like they just have so much time to spend speaking, why rush? Literally translated, Kugelschreiber means “ball scriber” which is also funny for other reasons.

6. Lustgarten. 

Pardon me if I got rather excited about visiting this park in Berlin. I’d imagined something akin to a debauched garden of Eden. It turns out it just means the more general “pleasure garden”.

7. Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung

Wow, such a long word, this must be an abstract legal term or a chemical name, right? No, it’s the word for “speed limit”. What!!!?

8. Herr Doktor Professor

In English we generally go by one title such as “Mister” or “Doctor” or “Captain”. Not in Germany where you are expected to know their full set of titles. Something of a collective German identity crisis? It’s like “I am at once a male, a doctor and a professor, why would you seek to rob me of any one of those attributes?!”

9. Rathaus

You might think this would be a house for rats, with little holes in the wall and rats darting to and fro. Alas, it’s the town hall, though it does show what Germans think of their local government.

10. Kartoffelpuffer

Or as we would say in English “hash brown”. I’m not sure why but every time I read this on a menu in Germany or hear someone say it, it brings a smile to my face. It just sounds so cute, like a baby penguin.






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