Lou BellaAug 1, 2023
Jens Clasen

The German word "Arsch" means "butt".

But:

- am Arsch (at the butt) = out of luck, or: As if!

- im Arsch (in the butt) = damaged, broken

- für den Arsch (for the butt) = in vain, useless

- verarschen (to forbutt) = to hoax

- Das geht mir am Arsch vorbei! (That passes my butt) = I don't care

- am Arsch der Welt (at the butt of the world) = at the end of the world, out in the sticks

- Arschgeige (butt violin) = jerk

Enjoy our languarsch!

#TheGermanWord

Aug 1, 2023 at 9:42amMastodon for Android
Show threadospalhAug 1, 2023

― Arsch mit Ohren (butt with ears) = jerk

&c. &c.

Show threadZora ElbeAug 1, 2023
@ospalh lmao I’ve never heard this one
Show threadospalhAug 1, 2023
@zora
A PDF with pictures of somebody taking that one rather literally:
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/kulturgut/article/download/18887/12697/46856
Show threadBrett Sheffield (he/him)Aug 1, 2023
@jensclasen #arschtodon
Show threadjulipuli 🌱Aug 1, 2023
@jensclasen Arsch is a lot more vulgar than butt. Butt is more like Hintern
Show threadHeliographAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen lol that much for German precision 😆😂
Show threadmarzuq märzenbecherAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen @bookstardust arschgeil <3
Show threadWolfgang ViechtbauerAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen Ass is also the most complicated word in English: https://youtu.be/RAGcDi0DRtU
Ismo: Ass Is The Most Complicated Word In The English Language | CONAN on TBS

YouTube
Show threadProjectFearlessnessAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen From Britain, we thank you for the gift of the word Arsch. We pronounce it Arse but we have also spent centuries using it in new and inventive ways. In fact, we're always arsing about with it.
Show threadMark BurtonAug 1, 2023
@ProjectFearlessness @jensclasen
Indeed for us beleagured speakers of British (English) English, a butt is a large water container (or historically in the plural, where archery was practiced). An ass is a donkey.
Show threadMark BurtonAug 1, 2023
@ProjectFearlessness @jensclasen And the thing you sit on is a bum.
Show threadProjectFearlessnessAug 1, 2023
@markhburton @jensclasen
It's great that you're standing up for the oppressed minority of English English speakers but I think you're fighting a losing battle. Americans refuse any offers of help. They won't even pronounce aluminium properly.
Show threadMark BurtonAug 1, 2023
@ProjectFearlessness @jensclasen Or laboratory. They make it sound like lavatory!
Show threadProjectFearlessnessAug 1, 2023
@markhburton @jensclasen
I know, but we have to let it go. It's their language now. They've got us beat(They have beaten us).
Show threadMark BurtonAug 1, 2023
@ProjectFearlessness @jensclasen
Well to some extent but I hold the line on anything from the neck down, clothing and anatomy.
Show threadSörenAug 2, 2023
@ProjectFearlessness @markhburton @jensclasen fun fact: the guy — British — who named the element first called it alumium[sic]. That was criticized. Then he went with aluminium. But then in a different book, he went with aluminum. And the US actually preferred aluminium for a while, then flipped.
Show threadProjectFearlessnessAug 2, 2023
@chucker @markhburton @jensclasen
Wait, so the Mericans always knew how to pronounce aluminium it and deliberately changed it to mess with the English language? How rude. I just thought it was a speech defect.
Show threadSörenAug 2, 2023
@ProjectFearlessness @markhburton @jensclasen similarly, both the million/billion/trillion and the million/milliard/billion/billiard/trillion number styles were invented in France.
Show threadProjectFearlessnessAug 2, 2023
@chucker @markhburton @jensclasen
Oh, stop. Now you're just messing with us. Anyway, we all know that the only reason the Mericans came up with a smaller number value for a billion is so they could brag about how many billionaires they have. It's not big, and it's not clever.
Show threadAxel FoleyAug 1, 2023
@ProjectFearlessness @jensclasen Or, often Erse....in Scotland 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Show threadPalmAndNeedleAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen also: Arsch! (Butt!) Expletive
Show threadJosef ZensAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen ge-arscht (enarsed or enbutted) - stark und ungerecht benachteiligt (fucked in the sense of screwed or wronged)
Show threadGraham Sutherland / PolynomialAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen the British equivalent of "am Arsch der Welt" is "the arse-end of nowhere". my guess is we stole that phrase like most of our language.
Show threadArmin HanischAug 1, 2023

@gsuberland @jensclasen

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
--James D. Nicoll

😎😉

Show threaddanimrichAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen It means arse, not butt.
Butt isn't as vulgar and is used in terms like "cigarette butt".
Show threadĸurthAug 1, 2023

@danimrich @jensclasen Hmyeah Butt is more like 'Popo'

More vulgar and fecal btw is 'Kackarsch', Shit Arse or Shit Butt. It has a nice sound to it

Show threaddanimrichAug 1, 2023
@kurth @jensclasen also: die Arschkarte ziehen (to draw the arse card): to get the short straw. From the red card that a football referee carries in his back pocket.
Show threadNike LeonhardAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen Am Arsch hängt der Hammer (at the arse hangs the hammer) - absolutely no way!
Show threadGiantPandaAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen
LMAA!
Show threadRhonda D'Vine 🏳️‍🌈Aug 1, 2023
@jensclasen You are also missing Arschgesicht from the jerk category. :)
Show threadSarathaiAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen You forgot "butt antlers" and "at the butt the robbers" as well as "heaven, butt and twine"
Show threadPiemaker 🖖Aug 2, 2023

@sarathai @jensclasen

"heaven, butt and twine" - OUCH🤣, my dear mister singing club (mein lieber Herr Gesangsverein)...

Show threadSarathaiAug 2, 2023

@piemaker @jensclasen

I think you have a jump in the deep dish! :P

Show threadElera MortisAug 1, 2023

@jensclasen
"Am Arsch die Waldfee."

@Nasenspray

Show threadFish Id Wardrobe ⁂Aug 1, 2023
@jensclasen Here in the UK I've heard "the arse end of nowhere" to describe a desolate place. I assume the derivation is German…
Show threadKate WatsonAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen I love that “arse-end of beyond” exists as a literal phrase in German too!
Show threadAlanna 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️Aug 1, 2023

@jensclasen

Heute, Ich habe mein Deutsch verbessern! Vielen Danke!

I thought I couldn't be arsed studying German this morning, but you got me to stop arsing around!

Show threadAlexander ShendiAug 1, 2023

@jensclasen

»The German word "Arsch" means "butt".«

As in "cigarette butt"???

Show threadEasydorAug 1, 2023

@jensclasen

Also 'arschkalt' (arse-cold), where 'arsch' is used as an amplifier.
#thegermanword

Show thread0mega ☣ [hz]Aug 1, 2023
@Jens Clasen
"im Arsch" may also mean "exhausted", as in "im Arsch sein"
@Cyb3rrunn3r :mastodon:⭐️
Show threadzeroAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen I'm a native speaker and I just learned there's a difference between "am Arsch" and "im Arsch". Thank you!
Show threadyetztAug 1, 2023
@storyof0 und um arsch herum. @jensclasen
Show threadzeroAug 1, 2023
@yetzt @jensclasen around ass 🤔
Show threadJan B.Aug 1, 2023
@jensclasen Don't forget "gearscht sein" ("to be arsed") which means something along the lines of drawing the short straw or being unlucky. "Der Gearschte" ("the arsed one") is consequently a very unlucky person, mostly someone who has to do some chore that everyone else successfully avoided.
Show threadRage Rumbles 🏴‍☠️🫂 🔞Aug 1, 2023

@jensclasen

"Leck mich doch am Arsch" = Please vacate my location

Show threadJo Dusepo  جوهانا دوسپوAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen Ich habe 'arschgeeige' nie gehört, aber jetzt werde ich es oft nutzen 😀 😁  🎻
Show threadrodluxAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen thanks, I wish I had known these useful phrases when I lived in Germany. My understanding of Arsch was somewhat limited.
Show threadPeter SommerladAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen Arschgeweih?
Show threadTaunideAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen And now please "Doch"!
Show threadArnim Sommer 🇪🇺Aug 1, 2023
@jensclasen
~ Stock im Arsch haben (stick in the butt) = being stiff, sticking to the rules
Show threadMartin HaſeneyerAug 1, 2023

@jensclasen Arschgeweih (“butt horns”) = tramp stamp

In addition to musical instruments like the lovely Arschgeige (“butt violin”), the fabulous Backpfeife (“bake pipe”; slap in the face) is also important to mention.

Show threadDenisAug 1, 2023
@jensclasen reminds russian
Show threadFink Aug 1, 2023
@jensclasen @saxnot Vom arsch (shitty, quality-wise)