mopgambling.blogg.se - october 2022

The Federal Republic of Germany asserted, following its establishment in 1949, that within its boundaries it was the sole legal continuation of the German Reich, and consequently not a successor state. Although commonly translated as "German Empire", the word Reich here better translates as "realm" or territorial "reach", in that the term does not in itself have monarchical connotations. The Reich became understood as deriving its authority and sovereignty entirely from a continuing unitary German Volk ("national people"), with that authority and sovereignty being exercised at any one time over a unitary German "state territory" with variable boundaries and extent. It's a term you'll most often hear on the news or muttered in worried tones by someone driving a car.German Reich ( German: Deutsches Reich, pronounced ( listen)) was the constitutional name for the German nation state that existed from 1871 to 1945. Geisterfahrer - Although it literally means 'ghost driver', this is a word used for someone who's driving on the wrong side of the road.

Respectively they mean 'the day before yesterday', and 'the day after tomorrow'.

Vorgestern and Übermorgen - Although not as amusing, these are perhaps the most useful of all of the words on this list.

Backpfeifengesicht - We all know one of these - a face that begs to be slapped.

The retort you think of as soon as you've left the room, or maybe a few hours later leaving you thinking 'now why couldn't I have thought of that then?!' Everyone knows gloves are for the faint of heart but frostbite is for real men (and women), right? Well, this is a German alternative - the 'glove snowball thrower'.

Handschuhschneeballwerfer - We've got wimps, yellow bellies and scaredy-cats.

So, what do you get when you put it all together? The feeling of being ashamed on someone else's behalf, whether it's your drunk friend who's absolutely making you cringe, or a celebrity who should have quit while they were ahead. 'Schämen' can only mean 'to feel embarrassed or ashamed'.

fremdschämen - 'Fremd' can have a lot of meanings - foreign, strange, external.

Kummerspeck - You've eaten the comfort food so now you've got to live with the 'grief fat' (or 'grief bacon' as it is more literally translated.) 'Kummerspeck' is the weight you put on after a prolonged period of comfort eating, for example if you should put on weight after a break-up.

The gift you buy your wife or significant other when you've done something wrong, either staying out getting drunk with the guys or accidentally running over the cat, it's the gift you buy to appease the 'dragon'.

Drachenfutter - Literally 'dragon food'.you're getting older and you haven't accomplished all that you wanted to in your life - the doors of opportunity are closing and there's not a thing you can do about it. The panic you feel when it suddenly dawns on you. Torschlusspanik - Literally 'door close panic'.The sadness or pain that you feel when the picture of the perfect world you have in your mind doesn't match up with reality.