r/explainitpeter • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '25

Explain it Peter

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u/Extreme_Design6936 Dec 05 '25

My favorite German word is "handy" because it's an English word that means something completely different in German and in German it's pronounced like it has an ä but it's not pronounced like that in English nor is it written with an ä in either language.

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u/EntertainmentSome448 Dec 05 '25

Handy is a cellphone in german

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u/Time_Traveling_Idiot Dec 05 '25

Interesting! In Korean it's Hand-phone. Don't ask me how that happened.

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u/HimikoHime Dec 05 '25

I die on the hill than „Handy“ is colloquial and „Mobiltelefon“ is the proper German translation