Looking for a few German one liners

[Yig]

Hello all,

Sorry if this is a bit OT but a player in my soon to start CoC campaign is making a German character who happen to be the bodyguard of another PC.

So what I'm looking for is a few one liners/sayings/proverbs/etc (with translation )... that he could say from time to time.

They don't need to be all combat related, I would like some genral stuff to.

Thanks a lot !

 

[starwolf]

Ahhh, the power of Google!

Alles hat ein Ende, nur die Wurst hat zwei.
(Everything has an end, only the sausage has two.)
Das hängt mir zum Hals heraus.
(I've had it up to here. / I'm sick of it.)
Er hat einen dicken Kopf.
(He's got a hangover.)
Er ist ein Dickkopf.
(He's stubborn (as a mule).)
Kopf hoch!
(Chin up!)
Ich bin nicht von gestern.
(I wasn't born yesterday.)
Er fällt immer mit der Tür ins Häuschen.
(He always gets right to the point/just blurts it out.)
Das fällt aus dem Rahmen (des Üblichen)!
(That's something with a difference/out of the ordinary!)
Sie fällt mir immer ins Wort.
(She's always interrupting me/butting in.)
Sie spielt die beleidigte Leberwurst.
(She's playing the prima donna. / She gets in a huff.)
Was fällt dir denn eigentlich ein?
(What's the big idea?)
Warum ist mir das nicht eingefallen?
(Why didn't I think of that?)
Das ist mir auch aufgefallen.
(I noticed that, too. )
Die Gasrechnung ist fällig.
(The gas bill is due.)
Die Stunde ist ausgefallen.
(The class was canceled.)
Da liegt der Hund begraben.
("That's the crux/root of the matter.")
So ist das Leben--hart aber dafür gemein.
("Such is life--hard but mean.")
Wess' Brot ich ess', dess' Lied ich sing.
("Who pays the piper, calls the tune," lit., "Whose bread I eat is whose song I sing.")
Das Leben ist wie ein Kinderhemd--kurz und beschissen.
("Life is like a child's shirt--short and crappy.")
Das ist mir spanisch.
("It's Greek to me.")
Das kommt mir spanisch vor.
("It seems odd to me; I find that hard to believe.")

 

[jgbrowning]

well

pardon my german


ich bin ein kuhen konig.
(I am the cow king)

Schnell! Schnell!
(faster! faster!)

Frau Blucher!


joe b.

 

[BOZ]

Jawohl!
(Absolutely!)
Dummkopf!
(Idiot! - literally "stupid head")
Schweinhund!
(not sure, but it's an insult - literally "pig-dog")

it's been almost 10 years since i took german in high school.

 

[BOZ]

Re: Ahhh, the power of Google!

Das ist mir spanisch.
("It's Greek to me.")

uhh... it may be greek to you, but it sure looks like Espanol to me.

 

[starwolf]

Yes that is the literal translation. But I was supplying the "idiomatic" translation.

 

[starwolf]

Schweinhund!
(not sure, but it's an insult - literally "pig-dog")

Comparing anyone to any kind of animal is usually an insult in German. That is why the English phrase S.O.B. is one of the highest of insults.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

You forgot the most common German swearword of all:

"Scheisse!"

Use liberally.

 

[starwolf]

temporary sidetrack

Sorry, but I have to ask this now that one of our German cousins has chimed in. My Grandmother always had a favorite phrase she used with us, but only in English and I can only think she aquired it from her mother who spoke Greman as her primary language.
So I was wondering if it had a Greman equivalent?

"Wish in one hand , S**T in the other and see which one fills faster."

Heck, even if it doesn't have a german origin, I'd like to get an idiomatic translation.

 

[Yig]

Wow

Thanks guys those are great

What's the word for die ? Curse you (or something similar)?

Keep em coming