improfem:

shiraglassman:

androidgynous:

jesuispoubelleettresbelle:

langernameohnebedeutung:

seventhsons:

Zeug, stuff, okay, need the word.

Spielzeug for toy and werkzeug for tool. All right. Play stuff and work stuff. That’s fine too.

Flugzeug and Fahrzeug are unacceptable. “Fly stuff” is not a plane. “Drive stuff”? Are you kidding?

and then you’re gonna come up in here and look me right in the eyes and say some shit like Feuerzeug?

You come at me with that trash again and Ich werde brechen deine Arschzeug, how about that

In very sad to inform you that the German word for a drum set is in fact – Schlagzeug. Hitting stuff.

unnaceptable

@fireandwonder

I love everything about this post because that was my reaction, too 😀

Other notable words from this category:

Zeughaus – stuff house, where weapons or firefighting equipment are kept (not a common word, OK, but notable for its randomness)

erzeugen – to… stuff something? I guess? But not in the English sense, in the sense of “making something be stuff” (just means to make/craft something)

zeugen – pretty much the same literal translation except it translates to procreating or fathering and hooo boy please let everyone know that the language of poets and philosophers has a (proper, formal) word for that which can reasonably be translated to “to stuff someone” bc I’m dying here