As an australian living in Germany for the last 2 years this has been one of the most excruciating things I've had to learn, and you can't just get away with knowing only "du", all of them are equally important
@@KyloB We emigrated to Liechtenstein about 3 years ago. German is also officially spoken here...Now I've learned what a language barrier means, at first I didn't understand a word. Not only Swiss German is spoken here, but also a special dialect. I now understand things pretty well and have adopted some terms into everyday life. But if the natives really get going here, I'm still in big trouble.
@@indrahx5905 That might be the case but, how many people seriously learn Russian, Polish, Chinese etc.?... I mean, with the intention to study/work there, not as a hobby. German must be the most difficult language among those that have a relatively large number of learners. The demand for German lessons must be a lot higher than for other "even more difficult" languages. That's the point, not which one is the "most difficult".
Cause there is so much more to Germany then those stupid insults (like all Germans always scream like Hitler when they talk) that ruZZians and Americans like so much...
@@Random-bi9bg ne es ist einfach nervig 😅 weils zu dumm ist um lustig zu sein. Vorallem unsere ganzen flachen Witze und stumpfer Humor. Kein Wunder, dass die Deutschen als unlustig bekannt sind auf der Welt. Man brauch sich nur mal anschauen was die ganzen Eltern oder älteren Leute an Witzen posten... *no Front an dieser Stelle*
@@eliscorreia7864 while I agree with the simplicity of its grammar, it also has so many exceptions, half the time English language doesn't make any sense logically
Not really, no. Both Germany and English are relatively in the middle of the spectrum concerning word flexion. There are languages with a ton more and there are languages with absolutely none at all. The biggest difference between English and German isn't flexion anyway. It's sentence structure.
@@eliscorreia7864 I think the way the united kingdom.. got a bit around all over the world in the past and made knew homes may be a major factor in that too
@@DaDaDo661 It's not a verb, it's a pronoun. In Deutsch (like in latin), articles, nouns, adjectives and pronouns are subject to "declination" (basically conjugation) depending on their role in the sentence. French has many different tenses and the conjugation (of verbs) can be a bit of a challenge, but for articles, nouns and adjectives all you have to worry about is put an "S" at the end if it's plural... Not in German. Also, German verb conjugation is no easy task either.
@@math9172 chill bro no-one he's just saying verb conjugation in Italian amd French is harder than any aspect of German language. Tbh I can agree, since I speak Italian, Latin, French and German. Declination of nouns, articles and adjectives in German is only subject to a few rules, and once you remember those you're good to go. Latin is way more complicated, since it has 5 different declinations for nouns and 3 groups of adjectives, and all endings are different, but for German the only hard part is understanding how the system of the cases works. Verbs in German are pretty easy, while verbs in Italian and French are such a hard thing to learn. I'm Italian so Italian verbs are natural to me, but I still struggled with French verbs more than with German nouns. Overall, Latin is the hardest of them all😂
Ich glaube dass Deutsch sehr einfach zu verstehen ist, aber wenn ich spreche oder schreibe, hab ich keine Ahnung und manschmal erinnnere mich nicht an einen Wort.
@@cameronharris2669 Not entirely true, most English people don't look that German and there is a lot of cultural difference - the English are a mix of Germanic and Celtic in terms of genes etc, even if the language is predominantly German I'm origin
@@Alfonzridesagain eh no. England was celtic till around 0 Ad. Then they got taken over by the saxons and anglos, both germanic tribes from denmark. Then 1066 during the viking age by northern germanic tribes the scandinavians, and partly by frenchmen who are germanic people aswell, the Franks. Europe Was almost complete celtic untill 1000 BC when the germanic tribes spread out from scandinavia all over europe. So all europeans have celtic and germanic ancestors. But the germanic tribes almost completely took over every celtic. So modern day germans are a Mix of celtic and germanic ancestors, just like the brits. Ofcourse not every germanic tribe looked the same, but the saxons still made up a big part of the people living in central/West germany during that time. So they have even a direkt ancestor shared with the brits. You make no sense especially when you tried to argue with the celtic ancestry. Like i said eveyone from Portugal, spain, france, germany, Poland etc etc has celtic and germanic ancestors. And germany is not called germany because germanic people originated from there, germanic people come from scandinavia and migrated all over europe.
@@AlfonzridesagainMost english people dont look German because they dont take care of themselves like the germans do. 90% of white English man could pass as German if they fixed their hair and fixed their overbites.
Not really, I've seen several very angry German people, both online and irl. A random German lady once told us to go back to our country because we were talking in Spanish while visiting my mother's town. Oh boy, she did have a facial expression.
@@comandosespeciales That’s the only facial expression you can see from german people - being angry and making such facial expression like someone has shitted inside their shoes even in response to some normal situations in the street. They are very good at emotions when it goes about being angry at someone. It’s the only interesting thing that happens in their daily routine, so they love drama.
Thou & Thee were great, English 2nd person plural is a mess these days. Also reminds me, the amount of 'th' words in English show that dropping thorn (þ) was a mistake, and umlauts are far more sensible than silent letters. TLDR: I resent the Normans.
Exactly, the you is grammatically and historically actually the polite form of address! Thee, thou, thine is the familiar form (compare with dir/dich, du, dein). Th=d
@@kyleheins Well, I'm surprised you compared these two. I mean, completely different level. About *du/ihr etc.* from video - I believe there's a lot of languages that are not as lazy as it is in English, where "you" is both singular and plural. German is just weird with all these uneasy translations, like krankenhaus and stuff. On the other hand, Polish is absurdly overcomplicated for no reason. Any noun has a lot of different ways of spelling depending on the rest of the sentence - we kinda love suffixes. Every single verb has like 30 or more suffixes or prefixes depending on persons, times, gender... But either way, all these versions of *you* makes sense and this word is not the reason of that complexity.
I know that’s exactly what it means and all, but seeing all those different words and then hitting google translate and seeing them all become “you” makes me reconsider learning another language. How do you even decide with all those options?
@@missmanasamaenjoyer 6 cases for 2 forms of you. german has 4 cases for three forms, so the numbers are even, I guess. but yeah, slavic languages have a lot of cases, the thing that surprises people in german here (english is actually the black sheep here as it's lost its informal you "thee")
Well, we still have "your" (possessive determiner) and "yours" (possessive noun) as well We also used to have "ye" (subjective) to go with "you" (objective) and the others as well as "thou/thee/thy/thine" (related to the German "du"/"dir"/etc.). "Ye" etc. was plural second person while "thou" etc. was singular second person, but "ye" also later became polite singular while "thou" was narrowed to informal singular. Since "ye" (later replaced by the objective "you") came to have more use in everyday speech, it would completely replace "thou" in all aspects outside of deliberately archaicizing speech.
I kid you not Japanese has like 20-30 words for 'you' depending on age, social status etc. You don't need to use all of these in every day life but you'll certainly hear or read most of them!
@@Currywurst4444 I don't remember too many ones for "you", though there are a lot, but from what I know "I" is pretty simple. You have the universal, polite and professional "watashi" / "atashi"/ "watakushi", and both the boys and girls have a few main casual ones. Don't remember the ones for girls, but for guys it's iirc "Boku" and "ore" aka the typical stuff you already know from anime.
@@YTDariuS-my6dg atashi : girl boku : kids/gentle ore : man/rude watashi : normal adult watakushi : massive respect washi : old man these 6 probably is most useful, but yeah...there are many other I in japanese like warawa ,sessha, own name, oira, ora etc....not much useful but u can hearl in some classical drama.🤣
English speakers realizing there's more to grammar in other languages than in English, with its simplified and abscent declension and what not, no endings and stuff like that. That puts it in need of longer phrases and explanations in order to express some stuff with simpler building blocks, while other languages use fewer blocks, but more variety and more complex.
Du hast Deutsch studiert? Das ist cool! Ich kenne einige Personen, die Deutsch studiert haben, aber das könnte daran liegen, dass ich aus Deutschland komme. Verstehst du auch Dialekte? War bei uns in der Familie witzig, meine Mutter ist Schwäbin und mein Vater Niedersachse und dann sagt dessen Neffe zu der besten Freundin meiner Mutter: ,,Was sprichst du denn so komisch, ist das eine Krankheit?'' Ihm wurde verziehen, er war ja nur fünf.
I'm studying German atm and I'm so grateful my native language also has cases for names and pronouns otherwise I wouldn't be able to grasp the concept 🤣
Having a native language with cases and stuff really helps, as well as knowing English, since German has elements of both. As for grasping the concept, it's doable, you just need to find a person or a book or a video that explains it well. A concept of, say, articles is virtually completely absent in my native language (save for archaic regional dialects one would be surprised to learn still exist, and are likely shared by a handful of elderly dudes so will soon cease to exist), still, people somehow manage to learn both German and English which rely heavily on said articles.
Yes, as a Swede I do not think it is _that_ complicated. Well the Dativ ... That formal "Sie", maybe, when it is appropriate, or not, but that is what English use all the time, they are a bit imprecise.
My 7-year-old son asked me what was so difficult about the German language. I said it's the relearning of grammar. And that relearning is more strenuous than learning something for the first time.
I am learning German through Duo. I have studied 3 languages in my high-school and another 2 more dialects. Honestly I can say I'm still learning when to use all these types of "you" appropriately
Back in school German class a solid 3 or 4 meanwhile English class 1 or 2, one of the best students in my class who was actually able to speak and understand the language.
@@lucianaromulus1408 but English is actually one of the easiest languages to learn especially when you learn it from first grade on. And there are similarities with German and French (I don‘t speak French so it doesn’t help me but still)
As someone that's trying to teach myself German, it's extremely frustrating. There is a lot of "it is how it is....because we say so" type rules. Where as Spanish is super easy with very clear cut rules.
@Annika I suppose , I've just heard from non native speakers English is tough. Sadly in the States we often don't learn a second language at a young age and I hate it. Trying hard to learn Russian now, very difficult but as a 32 year old I'm determined to be able to have a real conversation in it.
Fun fact: German has lost some of its very complex conjugation when Middle High German became Early New High German. There were more plural conjugations compared to today. :-)
In spanish you have many forms of you too. Actually in most romance languages you get as many you forms: Tu, ustedes, Vos, Vosotros, Usted, Ustedes. I might be missing.
@@skippityblippity8656 yeah nice! 😅 Only it's *tomatoes* on the *eyes* (therefore being blind), and *beans in the ears* - like, deafening you with them. 😉
@@vollderchriss Well, we used the informal one with teachers in primary school 🤔 (Although don't ask me how to write a letter, I learned a mix of old and new rules - there are rules for whether to use Sie, Du or du imo) So for my primary school teachers (even after leaving that school, I would still write a few of them), I'd use Du in a letter since more polite. Writing to my secondary school teachers using "Sehr geehrte/r...." and Sie. Writing to a close friend using du. So, yeah.... It also gets really confusing towards the end of school when you will sometimes use du with some teachers (the two grade's teachers or A-level teachers) - but use Sie during class.
In hungarian we also have formal and informal you, it took me a while to start calling my teachers with the formal one. But when i was in english class and learned that there's only one "you" in english it actually felt like i was being impolite referring to my teacher as "you" like i did to everyone else
I know that German is quite difficult for English speakers, but can you imagine the reaction to slavic languages as they are much more difficult due their possessive pronouns, 7 cases, etc.
I'm a native English speaker that learned German as a second language, the cases were a bit tough to get my head around for the first year or so, but living there helped, as did the large shared vocabulary. And now, having learned cases before is helping me learn the mother of all difficult languages.. Finnish 💀 Fifteen grammatical cases, the declination of which changes according to the many sanatyyppi...
@@GreenEyeCatto I would not even try to attempt to learn Finnish. It is a whole other universe. I´ve spoken German and Croatian as my first languages. Therefore learning English, French and Russian at school wasn´t such a problem due to their roots. But Finnish and Hungarian? no, thanks. I am too lazy for it 😅
I love how people will genuinely fight over what order you remember the cases by. Some remember it as NAGDLIV (Nominativ, Akuzativ, Genitiv, Dativ, Lokativ, Instrumental, Vokativ) which is how I was taught in middle school. But that's about the only time that order was taught, during my generation's middle school days, and ONLY in middle school. In highschool and college we had to switch to NGDAVLI (Nominativ, Genitiv, Dativ, Akuzativ, Vokativ, Lokativ, Instrumental), which is also how my parents and grandparents learned it. So now everyone but my generation always yells at me if I say them in the NAGDLIV order, haha.
I'm not sure why as an English speaking American that Russian has been easier than German for me. I'm also starting conversationly though instead of strict grammar like when I took German in college.
@@YTDariuS-my6dg I've studied Polish, Russian, & German 1978-90. 99% use NGDAILV. Twice we got handed books using NAetc. Both times every single one of us refused to use the books at all. The teachers gave up. Feminine Accusative is two over and four down. Full stop. You don't change a system that'sworked for centuries......😅
Also not only does German differentiate between formal you (last name basis) and informal you (first name basis), we also have a formal you with first name basis (“Sie, Jürgen”) - mostly used by teachers towards their adult students - and an informal you with last name basis (“Du, Frau Schröder”) - mostly used by supermarket cashiers.
Thou/Thee is the English equivalent of Du/Dich and Ye/You is the equivalent of Ihr/Euch. As a North Sea Germanic language, English got rid of the final z/r on pronouns, just like Dutch and Low German, while we retained the initial Y/J that High German and the Scandinavian languages lost before front vowels. We also retain the Th sounds that turned into Ds in other West Germanic languages, and that became Ts in Scandinavian languages, with only Icelandic and English keeping the ancient sound alive. The -ch at the end of Euch is probably because of assimilation to the -ch suffixes found in mich, dich, and sich, where it should have become Euer, like the posessive pronoun form. English just lost all of the variations through simplification as we progressed from Early Modern English (Tudor Era English) to our current form.
The thing is, English used to be similar. But while using ihr instead of du as a formal form fell out of use, in English, using you instead of thou out of politeness became so overused the old singular fell out of use, which is why you always acts like a plural, it technically is.
Anyone learning German remembers the day they're shown the grid with all 16 pronunciations of the word the. Trust me the evil micro smile at the end of the worlds greatest super-villain was so apt.
Anybody wondering: Du -> someone you know like a friend or a class mate Ihr -> people you also know like a friend or classmate but use this if you talk to more than one person directly at a time Sie -> for people you don’t know so well or are of a higher role than you (boss, teacher, strangers)
@@krisgrym well about 5 of them are pretty useless and most people won’t use them in their entire life, but pretty much all of them. And those 30 forms are for every word
The German guy was very polite to wait until he was done talking before continuing with the list
the least he could do
that's a national tradition here in germany :)
Yes
Yes
🤣
As a German i can say that you need all of those...
Same
I thought the “Du” itself will make it
yes, and i like how liam smirks as "german" at the end... 'cause noone said if they just want to know it in singular, plural, or set in any times...
You’re right. But what for a You I mean I German: guess 😂😂😂😂
yea ... 😂 some you wouldn't even expect to be used. but as a german you use them often!
When French looks concerned, you know something's up
France always looks concerned when Germany enters the chat...
Well not really we have as much pronuns than german.
Anyone knows the background music at the end?
@@lheng2474it's "What I've Done" by Linkin Park 😊
We have the same amount tho
As an australian living in Germany for the last 2 years this has been one of the most excruciating things I've had to learn, and you can't just get away with knowing only "du", all of them are equally important
Absolut 😅😅😅😅😅
Ever learned our noun plural forms? -:)
@@HesseJamez I have. Verb conjugation is also a pain in the ass.
:-)
@@KyloB We emigrated to Liechtenstein about 3 years ago. German is also officially spoken here...Now I've learned what a language barrier means, at first I didn't understand a word. Not only Swiss German is spoken here, but also a special dialect. I now understand things pretty well and have adopted some terms into everyday life. But if the natives really get going here, I'm still in big trouble.
The greatest German joke in English: You can say you to me.
Sie könnten du zu mir sagen?😂 Kannte ich nicht😂
@@juliusleyhe9442 du kannst du zu mir sagen
@@schnufffuchs aber so ist's doch kein Witz?
You can you me - Du kannst mich duzen
@@juliusleyhe9442 angeblich sagte das mal ein deutscher Bundespräsident zur englischen Königin
Germany: That was just the beginning...
The germans trying not to laugh and mention all the words for the
😂
"This isn't even my final form"
Welcome home *lightsaber slash*
Does German really sound as hard?
Masterpiece, 🇵🇱 studied German years back before. I enjoyed it very much so. Greetings from Poland
The teacher is lucky that Polish student called sick that day 🤣
How many cases is Polish?? German has 4
@@HansEgonMattek I only know that Russian has 6 cases. German isn't the ony language that's not easy!
@@indrahx5905
That might be the case but, how many people seriously learn Russian, Polish, Chinese etc.?... I mean, with the intention to study/work there, not as a hobby. German must be the most difficult language among those that have a relatively large number of learners. The demand for German lessons must be a lot higher than for other "even more difficult" languages. That's the point, not which one is the "most difficult".
Can we all appreciate the fact, that he does funny content about Germany without yelling the language aggressivly?
It’s not funny, it’s condescending. The English don’t know the difference.
Cause there is so much more to Germany then those stupid insults (like all Germans always scream like Hitler when they talk) that ruZZians and Americans like so much...
@Jan Six I'm German, I think it's funny. Yes Germans with a sense of humor do exist
@@Random-bi9bg ne es ist einfach nervig 😅 weils zu dumm ist um lustig zu sein. Vorallem unsere ganzen flachen Witze und stumpfer Humor. Kein Wunder, dass die Deutschen als unlustig bekannt sind auf der Welt. Man brauch sich nur mal anschauen was die ganzen Eltern oder älteren Leute an Witzen posten... *no Front an dieser Stelle*
shows he is not US-american
Tbh German having multiple forms is not the exception. English is the exception here.
Yup, for example baltic, slavic, finno-ugric languages have these grammatical cases, some more some less
Yes, but I believe that must be one of the reasons why english is now the (unofficial) international language. Grammatically very simple.
@@eliscorreia7864 while I agree with the simplicity of its grammar, it also has so many exceptions, half the time English language doesn't make any sense logically
Not really, no.
Both Germany and English are relatively in the middle of the spectrum concerning word flexion. There are languages with a ton more and there are languages with absolutely none at all.
The biggest difference between English and German isn't flexion anyway. It's sentence structure.
@@eliscorreia7864 I think the way the united kingdom.. got a bit around all over the world in the past and made knew homes may be a major factor in that too
As a french, I have finaly found a worthy opponent
German here
😂😂 en garde🤺
@@Magde202 We fought enought in the pass, let's just chill
Only joking😉
@@falkirollet5379 looks like a capitulation to me... alright, let's chill
African click language: Are you underestimating me?😅
Dieses Lächeln am Ende… Zucker 😅
"Britain, France, and Italy watch in fear as Germany continues to list different forms of the word You to Mr. UN."
I assume verb conjugation in French and Italian is worse than anything in German
@@DaDaDo661 the thing is, it isn't even a verb.
@@DaDaDo661 It's not a verb, it's a pronoun.
In Deutsch (like in latin), articles, nouns, adjectives and pronouns are subject to "declination" (basically conjugation) depending on their role in the sentence.
French has many different tenses and the conjugation (of verbs) can be a bit of a challenge, but for articles, nouns and adjectives all you have to worry about is put an "S" at the end if it's plural... Not in German.
Also, German verb conjugation is no easy task either.
@@math9172 I'm not talking about the word "You" I was just saying general when it comes to verbs
@@math9172 chill bro no-one he's just saying verb conjugation in Italian amd French is harder than any aspect of German language. Tbh I can agree, since I speak Italian, Latin, French and German. Declination of nouns, articles and adjectives in German is only subject to a few rules, and once you remember those you're good to go. Latin is way more complicated, since it has 5 different declinations for nouns and 3 groups of adjectives, and all endings are different, but for German the only hard part is understanding how the system of the cases works. Verbs in German are pretty easy, while verbs in Italian and French are such a hard thing to learn. I'm Italian so Italian verbs are natural to me, but I still struggled with French verbs more than with German nouns. Overall, Latin is the hardest of them all😂
Worst part as a German is if you have to decide if you are on a "du" level with someone or if you should say "Sie". Worst anxiety ever, lol 😅
there are rules for that
@@whattheflyingfuck... and exceptions for every rule.
Or you are the kind of german who just gives a shit about the formal form and calls everybody du
My German relatives had an hours long conversation about that over thanksgiving dinner 😂
@@fionasabre Chad
All my german class trauma just came back 😢
As someone learning German as a second language... this guy's content has been absolutely wonderful.
In Germany we say: ✨Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache ✨
*beste sprache
Kein Problem, alles gut :>
gefolgt von "wir sind hier nicht aufm' Ponyhof!"
Ich glaube dass Deutsch sehr einfach zu verstehen ist, aber wenn ich spreche oder schreibe, hab ich keine Ahnung und manschmal erinnnere mich nicht an einen Wort.
@@Gaby-wu3lb gramatik und rechtschreibung sehr gut
manchmal ohne s
ein Wort (nicht einen)
Sonst sehr gut 👍
As Polish we relate 😄 You: Ty, tobie, ciebie, tobą, cię, wy, was, wam, wami, Państwo, Państwu, Państwa, Państwem, Pan, Pana, Panu, Panem, Pani, Panią...❤
Ich you use the auto translation this comment gets even funnyer.
You you you Lord Lord Lord 🤣
Basically every Slavic language has those :)
Same, as a Kazakh I can relate as well
Seems like German has found its end boss 🤣
Laughs in Japanese. Has 15 ways to say ‘you’ but uses none of them
That’s different. The German you is tied to the grammar structure of your sentence while the Japanese is situational or not even used
@@miscellaneous7777 still
@@bassterkiiton2412 get out.
@@miscellaneous7777 no
Well the difference is that germans use all of them they are basically mandatory to know 🤣
Thats why i love my language. Its hard and i can be proud AND german storys are very good 😂
That smile always gets me😂
Same
Same
This guy has to be the most German looking English person of all time
The English are practically german so yeah makes sense
@@cameronharris2669 Not entirely true, most English people don't look that German and there is a lot of cultural difference - the English are a mix of Germanic and Celtic in terms of genes etc, even if the language is predominantly German I'm origin
@@Alfonzridesagain eh no. England was celtic till around 0 Ad. Then they got taken over by the saxons and anglos, both germanic tribes from denmark. Then 1066 during the viking age by northern germanic tribes the scandinavians, and partly by frenchmen who are germanic people
aswell, the Franks. Europe Was almost complete celtic untill 1000 BC when the germanic tribes spread out from scandinavia all over europe. So all europeans have celtic and germanic ancestors. But the germanic tribes almost completely took over every celtic. So modern day germans are a Mix of celtic and germanic ancestors, just like the brits. Ofcourse not every germanic tribe looked the same, but the saxons still made up a big part of the people living in central/West germany during that time. So they have even a direkt ancestor shared with the brits. You make no sense especially when you tried to argue with the celtic ancestry. Like i said eveyone from Portugal, spain, france, germany, Poland etc etc has celtic and germanic ancestors. And germany is not called germany because germanic people originated from there, germanic people come from scandinavia and migrated all over europe.
@@AlfonzridesagainMost english people dont look German because they dont take care of themselves like the germans do. 90% of white English man could pass as German if they fixed their hair and fixed their overbites.
@@Alfonzridesagainyou have opened a can of worms with that comment 😅
I never knew I needed this man's smirk in my life, now I can't get enough of it.
It all started with that smile.
That damned smile.
100 % Germans: NO absolutely NO facial expression until they are really super exited than they express it with that micro-smile😂 Well done👍
In English we call that a smirk by the way.
I turned out to be German.
😳
the micro smile is my favourite part of these videos... 😏
Not really, I've seen several very angry German people, both online and irl. A random German lady once told us to go back to our country because we were talking in Spanish while visiting my mother's town. Oh boy, she did have a facial expression.
@@comandosespeciales That’s the only facial expression you can see from german people - being angry and making such facial expression like someone has shitted inside their shoes even in response to some normal situations in the street. They are very good at emotions when it goes about being angry at someone. It’s the only interesting thing that happens in their daily routine, so they love drama.
As a German i learned that once English had an informal "you" as well: "thou", "thee" and so on 😌
Thou & Thee were great, English 2nd person plural is a mess these days.
Also reminds me, the amount of 'th' words in English show that dropping thorn (þ) was a mistake, and umlauts are far more sensible than silent letters.
TLDR: I resent the Normans.
@@InnuendoXP i love you nerdy people
you actually is the same word as thou the th got changed to a y due to printing press and stuff go look it up if u want
They had three genders too like German. That's when you realise these two languages were so related and then the Normans changed everything
Exactly, the you is grammatically and historically actually the polite form of address!
Thee, thou, thine is the familiar form (compare with dir/dich, du, dein). Th=d
Finnish coming with atleast 30 different references in any word-
Das Lächeln am Schluss, einfach unbezahlbar. Ich liebe es. Ich kann noch Deutsch von dir lernen 😂
That was the tutorial...wait till you see the advanced stuff😉
this isnt even exaggerating
Meanwhile the Polish: ty, ciebie, ci, tobie, tobą, wy, was, wami, pan, pana, panu, panem, pani, państwo, państwu, państwem 😂
Of course you guys and Germans had to get in a linguistics compatition... somehow unsurprising.
@@kyleheins Well, I'm surprised you compared these two. I mean, completely different level.
About *du/ihr etc.* from video - I believe there's a lot of languages that are not as lazy as it is in English, where "you" is both singular and plural.
German is just weird with all these uneasy translations, like krankenhaus and stuff.
On the other hand, Polish is absurdly overcomplicated for no reason.
Any noun has a lot of different ways of spelling depending on the rest of the sentence - we kinda love suffixes.
Every single verb has like 30 or more suffixes or prefixes depending on persons, times, gender...
But either way, all these versions of *you* makes sense and this word is not the reason of that complexity.
Brazil: Você; Tu; Ti; O senhor; Vós; Vocês; Tua pessoa; Sua pessoa; A senhora; Vossa senhoria; And countless variations.
Sorry girl, but we gave up on Polish a long time ago…😂😂😂
I know that’s exactly what it means and all, but seeing all those different words and then hitting google translate and seeing them all become “you” makes me reconsider learning another language. How do you even decide with all those options?
I’m learning German right now and I’m crying
Well that's step 1 in learning German,... now you are ready for step 2 :D
@@Anno_Nymouse so step 2 is pronouncing Arbeiterunfallversicherungsgesetz
step 3 is pronouncing Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft.
congrats, now you are German
Alter... ich muss echt JEDES Mal laut lachen bei deinen Shorts...
Now I'm smiling in Polish :)
Polish is more simple. shut up.
And I in Slovak 😉
@@olmostgudinaf8100 As a polish person I can tell Slovak is great! ❤ I literally love your language ❤
And Czech :)
And in almost every Slavic language x)
And just like that, I need to learn German. 😂
The smirk though. My husband is only 1/4 German and that Teutonic "charm" is still evident.
Russian: Silently laughing in the corner
why
@@missmanasamaenjoyer 6 cases for 2 forms of you. german has 4 cases for three forms, so the numbers are even, I guess. but yeah, slavic languages have a lot of cases, the thing that surprises people in german here
(english is actually the black sheep here as it's lost its informal you "thee")
Poland: watching them and laughing maniacally
As a guy who lived in Germany every time I go outside I only hear those words
Ok, please explain what's going on here&
@@kawashima-yoshiko kommt halt immer auf den kontext an.
@@L1pTEr alright, thank you😐
@@kawashima-yoshiko 😄 even as german i couldn´t tell you the rules. we just know when to use what.
@@L1pTEr ich kann sag du hast Recht 😂
This guy is so great. Love the song choice
I had a german roommate and he had very little facial expression and was quite speechless until he shotguns few cans of beer with me.
im literally the same but im a german so dunno, its quite common here actually.
Yep. I remember crying into my German textbook. It's not so bad when you get used to it.
The language or the crying?! 😂
Euch..clueless about euch... EUCH!
Same bruh
@@beshr1993 the crying
Bis dahin
Leide
😈
Poland: Hold my beer...
You forget to add "kurwa" at the end of the sentence.
Korea:
My lawyer advised me to not finish this joke
Well, we still have "your" (possessive determiner) and "yours" (possessive noun) as well
We also used to have "ye" (subjective) to go with "you" (objective) and the others as well as "thou/thee/thy/thine" (related to the German "du"/"dir"/etc.). "Ye" etc. was plural second person while "thou" etc. was singular second person, but "ye" also later became polite singular while "thou" was narrowed to informal singular. Since "ye" (later replaced by the objective "you") came to have more use in everyday speech, it would completely replace "thou" in all aspects outside of deliberately archaicizing speech.
I kid you not Japanese has like 20-30 words for 'you' depending on age, social status etc. You don't need to use all of these in every day life but you'll certainly hear or read most of them!
Thanks, DK dono
Whats more baffling is that there are a ton of different words for "I" as well.
@@Currywurst4444 I don't remember too many ones for "you", though there are a lot, but from what I know "I" is pretty simple. You have the universal, polite and professional "watashi" / "atashi"/ "watakushi", and both the boys and girls have a few main casual ones. Don't remember the ones for girls, but for guys it's iirc "Boku" and "ore" aka the typical stuff you already know from anime.
@@YTDariuS-my6dg
atashi : girl
boku : kids/gentle
ore : man/rude
watashi : normal adult
watakushi : massive respect
washi : old man
these 6 probably is most useful, but yeah...there are many other I in japanese like warawa ,sessha, own name, oira, ora etc....not much useful but u can hearl in some classical drama.🤣
Kimi omae anta kisama are the only ones i know from anime 😂
As a Norwegian we also say du🇳🇴🇳🇴
English speakers realizing there's more to grammar in other languages than in English, with its simplified and abscent declension and what not, no endings and stuff like that. That puts it in need of longer phrases and explanations in order to express some stuff with simpler building blocks, while other languages use fewer blocks, but more variety and more complex.
When I studied Deutsch, I had a book on verb conjugations that included every version of "You".
But you is not a verb though
@@wampfinzlord8878 no, but each verb had to be conjugated with each version of "You".
@@JohnZyski ah, got it
Du hast Deutsch studiert? Das ist cool! Ich kenne einige Personen, die Deutsch studiert haben, aber das könnte daran liegen, dass ich aus Deutschland komme. Verstehst du auch Dialekte? War bei uns in der Familie witzig, meine Mutter ist Schwäbin und mein Vater Niedersachse und dann sagt dessen Neffe zu der besten Freundin meiner Mutter: ,,Was sprichst du denn so komisch, ist das eine Krankheit?'' Ihm wurde verziehen, er war ja nur fünf.
@@hello_world4859 Ich habe Hoch Deutch studiert, so wie wir in Amerika studieren. Aber mein Professor konnte Brandenburgisch.
Laughing in 🇨🇿
Once upon a time, English had that many words for you
No German isn’t complicated…
German:
Also Russian: ты, тебя, тебе, тобой, тобою:))
The new Italian guy is cute.. 😍🍝🇮🇹
😉👍, the French guy as well 🇫🇷🥖
the best German content here in Germany😂
When he spat out his drink, I spat out my spit. (And almost regurgitated some of my 2000 cal protein shake…)
I'm studying German atm and I'm so grateful my native language also has cases for names and pronouns otherwise I wouldn't be able to grasp the concept 🤣
Same xD
In my country we got 2 for plural and 3 for singular, depending on the situation and formality.
@@tinyspyro8163 what language is that ?
And where are you from ?
Having a native language with cases and stuff really helps, as well as knowing English, since German has elements of both.
As for grasping the concept, it's doable, you just need to find a person or a book or a video that explains it well. A concept of, say, articles is virtually completely absent in my native language (save for archaic regional dialects one would be surprised to learn still exist, and are likely shared by a handful of elderly dudes so will soon cease to exist), still, people somehow manage to learn both German and English which rely heavily on said articles.
Yes, as a Swede I do not think it is _that_ complicated. Well the Dativ ...
That formal "Sie", maybe, when it is appropriate, or not, but that is what English use all the time, they are a bit imprecise.
My 7-year-old son asked me what was so difficult about the German language.
I said it's the relearning of grammar. And that relearning is more strenuous than learning something for the first time.
They once told Heisenberg, he can either go in to Quantum Mechanics or studying German.
We all know what he chose.
@@CrniWuk Uhm... you shall soon notice that this joke doesn't work for a simple reason which I will leave you to figure out by yourself.
That's why you start 'em young.
I am learning German through Duo. I have studied 3 languages in my high-school and another 2 more dialects. Honestly I can say I'm still learning when to use all these types of "you" appropriately
@@lenaschneider7706 Even German speaking people can decide to "study" German as a language.
English used to have "thou" but we got rid of it and now use the formal/plural exclusively. Because we're so polite.
That fucking smirk at the end gets me every time 😂
Poland: "six are rookie numbers"
That smile desrves an oscar
Sweden: We will also chose "Du"
Anything else?
Sweden: Nah, just "Du"...well, maybe "Ni" as well, but that's it!
That smirk at the end always gets me
It's crazy how im German and I'm sometimes still very confused with those rules 😂
Me too 😅
Makes me feel less stupid with having a huge problem learning this. I mean I still dont remember anything but makes me feel better a tiny bit.
@@karolswieboda1781 In Germany we say “German language, difficult language”.
Back in school German class a solid 3 or 4 meanwhile English class 1 or 2, one of the best students in my class who was actually able to speak and understand the language.
It's the same in Swedish 😆
Let‘s just say I‘m happy to have German as my native language and not having to learn it as a second language
That's how I feel about English 😅
@@lucianaromulus1408 but English is actually one of the easiest languages to learn especially when you learn it from first grade on. And there are similarities with German and French (I don‘t speak French so it doesn’t help me but still)
@@lucianaromulus1408 as a German you can just learn English by watching movies in their original language.
As someone that's trying to teach myself German, it's extremely frustrating. There is a lot of "it is how it is....because we say so" type rules. Where as Spanish is super easy with very clear cut rules.
@Annika I suppose , I've just heard from non native speakers English is tough. Sadly in the States we often don't learn a second language at a young age and I hate it. Trying hard to learn Russian now, very difficult but as a 32 year old I'm determined to be able to have a real conversation in it.
Fun fact: German has lost some of its very complex conjugation when Middle High German became Early New High German. There were more plural conjugations compared to today. :-)
And my German friends complain about Spanish being difficult 😂
Laughs in Slovene. We have singular, dual and plural forms of "you".
Reminds me of my German class I took back in school days in India.
Several ways to be polite in any case .. that's german 😄
This Content gets me every time 😂 I belief it will never get old 😂 I will show this my grand kids
In spanish you have many forms of you too. Actually in most romance languages you get as many you forms: Tu, ustedes, Vos, Vosotros, Usted, Ustedes. I might be missing.
No es eso exactamente. Se refiere a la diferencia entre tu, te y ti. Tu tienes, yo te hago, de tí
@@TheHortoman When I clicked "translate" I started laughing so hard
@@shivers47 lmao i wonder what it translates into
@@shivers47 ah now i see it. It proves me right though we do have different forms of you lmao
@@TheHortoman Estas en lo cierto.
Germany: "Did I stutter?" 😏
Meanwhile, everyone else: 👁👄👁
In Germany we say „sprech ich chinesisch oder hast du tomaten auf den ohren“
And I think its beautiful
@@skippityblippity8656 yeah nice! 😅
Only it's *tomatoes* on the *eyes* (therefore being blind), and *beans in the ears* - like, deafening you with them. 😉
I love the teacher videos. Collegial! Cheers 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧
Hahahaha thank you for the laugh😂, greetings from Germany!
Polish: Ty, tobie, ciebie, z tobą. Wy, was, wam, z wami. Pan, pana, panu, z panem. Pani, panią. Państwo, państwa, państwu, z państwem.
As a German how lived in Australia until I was 14 I had a real problem I spoke German but I did not use the formal you when speaking with teachers
I guess you seemed kinda impolite to them.
@@vollderchriss Well, we used the informal one with teachers in primary school 🤔 (Although don't ask me how to write a letter, I learned a mix of old and new rules - there are rules for whether to use Sie, Du or du imo)
So for my primary school teachers (even after leaving that school, I would still write a few of them), I'd use Du in a letter since more polite.
Writing to my secondary school teachers using "Sehr geehrte/r...." and Sie.
Writing to a close friend using du.
So, yeah....
It also gets really confusing towards the end of school when you will sometimes use du with some teachers (the two grade's teachers or A-level teachers) - but use Sie during class.
In hungarian we also have formal and informal you, it took me a while to start calling my teachers with the formal one.
But when i was in english class and learned that there's only one "you" in english it actually felt like i was being impolite referring to my teacher as "you" like i did to everyone else
Russian: hold my vodka (+ 2 extra cases)
Deutsch, Sprache der Dichter und Denker, schönste Sprache
I learn german in school and U.K's reaction is sooo relateble
Excellent interpretation of average Italian, you actually look like my cousin 😂👏🏻
Indossa la canottiera come lui? 🙂
@@eolobrontolo9117 la maglia della salute è 🙃
😂😂😂
@@AnnamariaLeprini 😉
So cute the way English Liam is always drinking a cup.of tea.😂
I know that German is quite difficult for English speakers, but can you imagine the reaction to slavic languages as they are much more difficult due their possessive pronouns, 7 cases, etc.
I'm a native English speaker that learned German as a second language, the cases were a bit tough to get my head around for the first year or so, but living there helped, as did the large shared vocabulary.
And now, having learned cases before is helping me learn the mother of all difficult languages.. Finnish 💀 Fifteen grammatical cases, the declination of which changes according to the many sanatyyppi...
@@GreenEyeCatto I would not even try to attempt to learn Finnish. It is a whole other universe.
I´ve spoken German and Croatian as my first languages. Therefore learning English, French and Russian at school wasn´t such a problem due to their roots. But Finnish and Hungarian? no, thanks. I am too lazy for it 😅
I love how people will genuinely fight over what order you remember the cases by.
Some remember it as NAGDLIV (Nominativ, Akuzativ, Genitiv, Dativ, Lokativ, Instrumental, Vokativ) which is how I was taught in middle school. But that's about the only time that order was taught, during my generation's middle school days, and ONLY in middle school. In highschool and college we had to switch to NGDAVLI (Nominativ, Genitiv, Dativ, Akuzativ, Vokativ, Lokativ, Instrumental), which is also how my parents and grandparents learned it. So now everyone but my generation always yells at me if I say them in the NAGDLIV order, haha.
I'm not sure why as an English speaking American that Russian has been easier than German for me. I'm also starting conversationly though instead of strict grammar like when I took German in college.
@@YTDariuS-my6dg I've studied Polish, Russian, & German 1978-90. 99% use NGDAILV. Twice we got handed books using NAetc. Both times every single one of us refused to use the books at all. The teachers gave up. Feminine Accusative is two over and four down. Full stop. You don't change a system that'sworked for centuries......😅
More interaction/content with Spanish dude.. please 😉
The Micro-Smile is perfekt 😂😂😂😂👍
Also not only does German differentiate between formal you (last name basis) and informal you (first name basis), we also have a formal you with first name basis (“Sie, Jürgen”) - mostly used by teachers towards their adult students - and an informal you with last name basis (“Du, Frau Schröder”) - mostly used by supermarket cashiers.
the chillin smile at the end. Deutschland ❤
Japan: hold my beer
Hold my sake
that smirk gets me all the time. Liam, great content
Español: Hold my potato. Tú, tu, tus, usted, ustedes, vosotros, vuestro, vuestra, su merced, vos.
But honestly the separation between "du" and "ihr" is a much needed feature in English anyway
Thou/Thee is the English equivalent of Du/Dich and Ye/You is the equivalent of Ihr/Euch.
As a North Sea Germanic language, English got rid of the final z/r on pronouns, just like Dutch and Low German, while we retained the initial Y/J that High German and the Scandinavian languages lost before front vowels. We also retain the Th sounds that turned into Ds in other West Germanic languages, and that became Ts in Scandinavian languages, with only Icelandic and English keeping the ancient sound alive. The -ch at the end of Euch is probably because of assimilation to the -ch suffixes found in mich, dich, and sich, where it should have become Euer, like the posessive pronoun form.
English just lost all of the variations through simplification as we progressed from Early Modern English (Tudor Era English) to our current form.
The thing is, English used to be similar. But while using ihr instead of du as a formal form fell out of use, in English, using you instead of thou out of politeness became so overused the old singular fell out of use, which is why you always acts like a plural, it technically is.
I watch these videos just to see that smile at the end
The song fits so well every time ☀️
Japan has entered the chat
anata,omae,teme,kimi,kisama
I'll add more...
anta, kikun, kiden, kisama, socchi, soko, onore, unu, nanji, jibun, sonata, shokun
@@iPlayOnSpica now that's a lot
In my language we only have like 4 words for you
@@scarymonster5541 all of those words are very rude in Japanese though. So please don't use them
@@adrians.5097 oh alright
He was TOO POLITE🤣
Anyone learning German remembers the day they're shown the grid with all 16 pronunciations of the word the.
Trust me the evil micro smile at the end of the worlds greatest super-villain was so apt.
Der, die, das - wieso, weshalb, warum ^^
@@lyaneris wer nicht fragt bleibt dumm 😆
@@lyaneris Actually:
„Der, die, das. *Wer, wie, was.* …“
And so on. Otherwise, the rhyme is missing. 😅
@@UprightBassist NEIN, NEIN, NEIN, NEIN!
We did it the right way XD
(Also known as it was too long, we shortened it)
simple German mathematics
Anybody wondering:
Du -> someone you know like a friend or a class mate
Ihr -> people you also know like a friend or classmate but use this if you talk to more than one person directly at a time
Sie -> for people you don’t know so well or are of a higher role than you (boss, teacher, strangers)
Finnish enters the chat:
Explain please😮
@@krisgrym the normal word is sinä. But then theres, sinun, sinunkin, sinäkin, sinustakin, sinuakin, and about 20-30 more
@@Saapas_ 30??????And do you use all of them???😭😭😭😭
@@krisgrym yep
@@krisgrym well about 5 of them are pretty useless and most people won’t use them in their entire life, but pretty much all of them. And those 30 forms are for every word
As a person learning german, all of them are necessary and very hard to memorise their use correctly.