When you literally translate German words into English, you often get some pretty funny results. Can you guess what these ten direct translations really mean? It may be a tricky language to master ...

This uncharacteristically poetic German word literally translates to ‘art mistake’, although you probably won’t feel like a masterpiece as you hop out the hospital on one leg. So ...

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“Some non-words are funny, and they’re weird when they are ... This isn't a new idea: The 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer proposed the "incongruity theory," which ...

The folks at Facts decided to ask some Irish folks to try and translate German words - like Kunst, which raises some eyebrows, or gute fahrt, which causes grown adults to snicker. But the funny ...

Words with 60-odd letters in them? Nothing unusual in German. Henning dissects a couple of examples and proves that German can be endless fun - quite literally.