What are the German soldiers saying?

Xerxes712 · #1 07-25-2009, 10:34 PM

I am not Dutch, but I am from the USA. I have studied German language off and on over the years making translation mods (such Gothic Night of the Raven) I helped work on.

I think the best games do come from Europe, I like the more intelligent games.

The spoken German in this game was really confusing my ear.

Thanks for the real translation. Some of those phrases are not spoken correctly in game as you say. Here is one that is odd as you noted:

in Deckung gehen = run for cover

but in game is it used the wrong way. Deckung is like "cover for insurance..." An old WWII English phrase was "Hit the Deck!" as if you were on a ship getting shot at by an airplane. The ship's deck was the floor covering. The root word is interesting how it is used in other languages.

LOL yes it funny, I thought I was losing my basic German language skills.

Pizzadvl · #2 07-26-2009, 06:51 AM

Why didn't they used proper sayings?

lundberg500 · #3 07-28-2009, 02:00 PM

I have a question. Every time I get busted and found out by the guards, it sounds like they are yelling "Shizer" at me. Is that really what they are calling me? Maybe I'm hearing that wrong. Doesn't this mean "shithead" or "shitmouth" in german? Are they really calling me this every time I get busted?

AHO · #4 07-28-2009, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Pizzadvl

.Why should he be dutch? :p.

Because he wrote that he understands written not spoken German.

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Originally Posted by Pizzadvl

Why didn't they used proper sayings?

Perhaps they had no money or time to do this?!?

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Originally Posted by lundberg500

I have a question. Every time I get busted and found out by the guards, it sounds like they are yelling "Shizer" at me. Is that really what they are calling me? Maybe I'm hearing that wrong. Doesn't this mean "shithead" or "shitmouth" in german? Are they really calling me this every time I get busted?

They are saying "Scheiße" (pronounce it Shaysseh). This means "Shit".
They are not calling you shithead or something like that. They just
saying this because they are suprized by you (-> enemy, intruder, spy)

Like: "Oh shit there is an intruder!"

lundberg500 · #5 07-29-2009, 02:17 AM

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They are saying "Scheiße" (pronounce it Shaysseh). This means "Shit".
They are not calling you shithead or something like that. They just
saying this because they are suprized by you

That's too funny. I thought they were calling me that. Thanks for the info.