Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How to call someone "silly" in a cute way? Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 4 months ago. Active 3 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 9k times. I know there's an older thread about the world "silly", but I still have questions! Improve this question. Calvin Calvin 85 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Translate is just being jelly that it can't conceive such a concept.
As to google translate saying that Dummerchen means sausage, it's just a trick, using some kind of mathematical model to give the illusion that some kind of translation is being made. For that reason, it often gets confused by collocations: the sheer frequency of the English phrase "silly sausage" has thrown the mathematical model off its course!
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Ethunxxx Ethunxxx 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Thank you for the thorough explanation. There is a german comedian connecting exactly that sentance "Du bist so doof" with as he is calling it: "If she says that, jackpot, you're in! After taking some more time to think about it: Dummerchen may be considered as being always friendly - but often in the way you're being friendly to a really nice, but completely naive person.
It probably is more used in situations when someone acted silly without intension. It's not wrong, but you really have to say it the right way. I had a friend who used to say "Du bist so doof" in a friendly way and it was absolutely fine. I think it just depends more on the person and the way you say it than "you're so silly".
If it's about a couple, then doof should be ok in most cases. Show 9 more comments. I think this is less negative than "albern". Tobi Tobi 1, 8 8 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges.
And that basically meant to want something. P eople wanted all kinds of things back then… but ironically not this verb. So it disappeared. But there were prefix-versions of it too… of course.
And those survived. The first one is anmuten and that used to be something like to lead on, to tease… you make someone want you. And that is where Anmut grace comes from. Today, the words anmuten has changed quite a bit. It is just a rare word for to seem or to appear ….
The next verb, and by far the most important one, is vermuten. It means to suppose or to guess. So… the ver -prefix sometimes, I repeat, sometimes expresses the idea of for.
For example to forgive means vergeben. That explanation is confusing and hard to follow? Once again it comes from the old want- muten and the prefix zu then adds the.. So we took a rest and continued the next day. But hey… every languages need its little secrets. Keeps it interesting… okay, frankly I am just too lazy :. So—-this was our German Word of the Day der Mut.
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