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What if instead of creating more grammatical genders, we made more tenses.

I suggest the even less useful Futur III and Ultraplusquamperfekt

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What if I made more gendered forms? Not a genderneutral form, there are enough of those, but just more gendered forms.

We already have the feminine -in and the masculine without suffix, but what about neutral? What about xenine?

I just realized I'm trying to make xenic german grammar. Which makes my idea better I think. Now I feel less weird about my first third being "metal". Because yes! Metal!

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Then there is also the noun form of verbs so "das Röntgen" comes from the verb "röntgen" which comes from the guy Röntgen.

I think it's funny that in French the word for "unicorn" is "licorne" because:

The word "unicorne" was first reanalyzed as "une icorne"

The definite article was then added, making it "l'icorne"

The new definite form was reanalyzed once again, resulting in "une licorne"

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*salesman voice* Have you ever tried to show people something just for it to go wrong? Have you ever wondered if there is a very specific german word for that, that you can absolutely butcher? Of course there is.

✨✨Vorführeffekt✨✨

It basically translates to "demonstration effect", but that seems to mean something different in english.

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Leitmotiv (noun, neutral); leading motif

leiten (weak verb); to lead

Motiv (noun, neutral); motif

leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

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Poltergeist (noun, masculine)

poltern (weak verb); rumble, crash

Geist (noun, masculine); ghost

WAIT. Wait wait WAIT.

poltergeists:

push things off tables

break delicate objects for fun

in general just enjoy moving and destroying stuff for pleasure I guess

make loud disturbing noises in the middle of the night

sometimes poke or bite people, depending on the myth

are invisible aka no one knows what they look like

poltergeists are just the ghosts of rambunctious housecats

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Realistically the Anglo-Saxons must have used some form of "snabula" (germanic, meaning "beak"), I just currently can't find it. And this is the issue I have every time I try to find an Anglo-Saxon to modern english dictionary, a problem I don't have with old and middle high german.

And I'm trying to find this for the very serious reasons of translating platypus to what it would be if english speakers 1) used words of germanic origin for "animal" and "beak" and 2) structured their word the same way as "Schnabeltier" in german.

My best guess right now is just "snable deer". Which is probably the same thing I'll get even if I look any further. It's not like you can have that many logical variations. Maybe some dialects would even write it as "snabel deer".

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All I can think of is "Guy named Kabelbinder" type stuff. Which is funny but not really what I'm going for.

Can you believe the word cable comes from the middle latin word "capulum" and got to german through french in the middle ages? Because that doesn't really help right now.

Anyways, guy named Kabelbintar. His name means cable ties.

Maybe I should make up names again, that's fun. I just have no ideas right now.

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Maybe I should make up names again, that's fun. I just have no ideas right now.

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You know wifwolf? The female equivalent of werewolf? Yes? Good. Well, as the german Werwolf comes from the same word roots as in english, and "wīf" (wife) and "wīp" (Weib) also come from the same root, then realistically the german equivalent would be Wibwolf/Wipwolf.

(Note: I forgot about the Entverhärtung with p/b, but as I looked at it, I realized I wrote "wīf" as the german word. I fixed that now.)

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Hey! Wanna know the german version of April Fools? Of course you do! It's

April April!!!

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Formatfernsehen (noun, neutral); TV channel that directs its program at a specific group

Format (noun, neutral); format

fern (adjective); far, remote

sehen (strong verb); see

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Oschi (noun, masculine); just a really big thing, like, impressively huge

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hellauf (adverb); very

hell (adjective); light, bright

auf (adverb); on, to, in, at

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wartungsarm (adjective); low maintenance

warten (adjective); wait, maintain

-ung (suffix); nominalisation

arm (adjective); poor, lacking, sparce

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Bundesstaat (noun, masculine); (federal) state

Bund (noun, masculine); federation

Staat (noun, masculine); state

Can refer to a country with states (ex. Germany) or the states in the country (ex. the 16 states in Germany)

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Kate (noun, feminine); small wooden house, cottage (originally hole or cave)

related to Katen (noun, masculine) meaning the same thing, both originiating from Kote (noun, feminine)