tungemål @tungemaal - Tumblr Blog

today i learned that the finnish word for ‘hazardous waste’ is ongelmajäte, which can also translate as ‘problematic garbage’ and my roommate and i immediately agreed this is a word that belongs on tumblr.

callmebliss

Your fave is ongelmajäte

you-had-me-at-e-flat-major

in german it’s Sondermüll which means special trash and that too belongs on tumblr

pyrebomb

One man’s ongelmajäte is another man’s sondermüll.

thebellekeys

Urdu Language

؎ ہزاروں خواہشیں ایسی کہ ہر خواہش پہ دم نکلے

“Thousands of desires, each one so intense that it could take my life.”

– Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869)

#urdu #pakistan #south asian languages #language aesthetics #språkestetikk

dommingateez

the german word for villain, Bösewicht, is so great. like not only are you evil, you're also some sort of gnome about it

#german #deutsch

liebelesbe

my favorite prefix in german is "er-", meaning "to death" <3

liebelesbe

trinken -> to drink | ertrinken -> to drown

schießen -> to shoot | erschießen -> to shoot to death

würgen -> to choke | erwürgen -> to choke someone to death

stechen -> to sting | erstechen -> to stab to death

etc etc :]

german-enthusiast

*stechen -> to stab (as well, not just sting)

schlagen -> to hit | erschlagen -> slay (also: overwhelm)

drücken -> to press | erdrücken -> to crush

etc.

daylightsavingcrime

Completive transitive "er-" my beloved! It has a less productive counterpart in non-lethal transitive "an-".

anschießen -> to shoot non-fatally

anfahren -> to hit (but not run over) with a vehicle

thatswhywelovegermany

hängen -> to hang | erhängen -> to hang until dead

frieren -> to feel cold, to freeze | erfrieren -> to freeze to death

#german #deutsch

vigilantsycamore

English spelling isn't that hard to understand as long as you also understand French orthography, Dutch orthography, the Great Vowel Shift, the Latin language, the history of the printing press, and the etymology of every word introduced to English in the last 600 years

candela888-deactivated20250324

How to say "grape" in Romance and Germanic languages in Europe

From Latin ūva (“grape”):

uva (Spanish/Castilian)

uva (Asturian)

uva (Italian)

uva (Portuguese)

uga/uba (Aragonese)

uva (Galician)

uva (Judaeo-Spanish)

uva (Piedmontese)

uga (Lombard)

iva (Romansch)

úa (Sardinian)

ùa/ova (Venetian)

auã (Aromanian)

From Latin racēmus ("cluster or bunch of grapes"):

raisin (French)

racina (Sicilian)

raïm (Catalan)

rasim (Occitan)

resim (Franco-Provençal)

roésin (Picard)

roejhén (Walloon)

Unknown origin:

strugure (Romanian)

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From Old French grape (cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes"):

grape (English

grape (Scots)

Literally "wine-berry":

Wiitrybel (Alemannic German)

Weinba/Weinbeer (Upper/Southern German)

vínber (Icelandic)

From Proto-West Germanic *þrūbō ("cluster" or "grape"):

Traube (German)

drue (Danish)

druva (Swedish)

drue (Norwegian)

druif/wijndruif (Dutch)

druif (Afrikaans)

troyb (Yiddish)

Druve/Druuv (Low German)

drúf (West Frisian)

Drauf (Luxembourgish)

#germanic #germanic languages #romance #romance languages #etymology #maps

ich-bin-der-baer

German Vocabulary: Drawing

der Bleistift (pl. die Bleistifte) – [lead] pencil der Drehbleistift – mechanical pencil der Farbstift – coloured pencil der Filzstift – felt-tip pen die Feder – [nibbed] pen die Kreide – chalk das Papier – paper der Radierer – eraser der Spitzer – pencil sharpener die Tusche – India ink die Zeichenkohle – charcoal

die Abstufung – gradation, shading das Aktzeichnen – figure drawing; life drawing der Fluchtpunkt – vanishing point das Glanzlicht – highlight der Kontrast – contrast die Kreuzschraffur – cross-hatching die Linie – line die Perspektive – perspective die Proportion – proportion der Punkt (pl. die Punkte) – dot die Schraffur – hatching die Skizze – sketch die Strichzeichnung – line drawing die Studie – study die Zeichnung – drawing

radieren – to erase schattieren – to shade schraffieren – to hatch; to shade skizzieren – to sketch zeichnen – to draw

gebogen – curved gerade – straight grafisch – graphic grob – rough schattiert – shaded stilistisch – stylistic zickzack – zigzag

#german #deutsch #vocab list

langblrwhy

#artig

escuerzoresucitado

The German language has quite a few animalistic verbs:

fuchsen ("to fox") = to annoy

hechten ("to pike") = to dive

reihern ("to heron") = to puke

dackeln ("to dachshund") = to walk slowly

aalen ("to eel") = to bask

vögeln ("to bird") = to have sex

einigeln ("to hedgehog in") = to curl up

hamstern ("to hamster") = to hoard

schlängeln ("to snake") = to wriggle

stieren ("to bull") = to goggle

unken ("to toad") = to gripe, augur doom

tigern ("to tiger") - to walk tigerishly

#german #deutsch #vocab list

elbiotipo

I thought this was less common that I believed, but it's apparently a thing so: If you have been raised or chosen to consume media only in English, and think your native language(s) aren't as good, it's never too late to change that attitude. Listen and sing to music in your language, do it proudly, from the heart. Read books from your country. Watch movies and series from where you are from. Write posts in your language, don't be afraid of showing off your dialect. And try to learn about media from other countries that aren't the US. You will find something enjoyable, promise.

English has many great things about it, and like it or not, it has taken the place of a global lingua franca -indeed I'm writing this post in English so I can reach a larger audience, in a way- but we should not let it replace global culture. So many languages are endangered, and so are their cultures. Don't lose a part of yourself just because English is "cooler". Don't subscribe to a monodiet of English-speaking media, don't let the world be a monoculture. Don't let artists from your place in life, who don't have the global reach of Hollywood or Silicon Valley, be unheard. Speak your language. Con orgullo, chamigo, con acento y todo.

linguenuvolose

As a Swede I love the mutual intelligibility I have with Norwegians and every 7th word a Dane says

#😂😂

introvertedx10

headspace-hotel

This linguistic problem is only going to continue getting worse unless we fuck it in the ass now.

clouds-of-wings

I’m feeling kinda evil and want to create a pan-Germanic anti-Esperanto. Just take the most annoying and difficult features from each Germanic language and create a super complicated and frustrating language, taking in each case the vocab that is the most false-friend-y or else has a totally different etymology than the word each neighbour language uses.

It will have the 2 different conditional moods, the complicated comma and capitalization rules of German; the random pronunciation and the 10 different meanings for each word of English; the 98453 vowel sounds of Danish, the grave accent and weird use of definite adjective/noun forms of Swedish; the general grammatical complexity of Icelandic; the random Hebrew imports of Yiddish (also to piss of the Nazis who might want to use it); it will definitely have ð, þ, ö, ä, ü, å, ø and ß. Having ø and ö is especially fun since they’re basically the same letter, it will be completely random where you have to use ø and where ö, but if you mix it up you’ll call someone’s mom a rabid chipmunk.

I love the way Swedish massacres French words (enquête -> enkät, wonderful! sauce -> sås, great!) and makes everyone wince, I delight in the way Swiss German makes you use certain verbs twice if they accompany other verbs. My language will have all of those features. Capital letters will be written in Old German Kurrentschrift, lower case letters in Anglosaxon runes.

#and then to top it of #it should have the dialect variations accompanied with the refusal to have an offical spoken standard of norwegian #as well as a couple of written standards than no one wil ever agree on

allthingslinguistic

The International Phonetic Alphabet consonants found in English, with keywords and relevant parts of the mouth highlighted and colour-coded. (Source.)