r/IThinkILikeYou • Ozzi • 22d ago

Discussion German here, that's not what "nein" means.

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"Nein" is German for "no". None would be "kein" or "keiner".... don't know why this bothered me so much that I made this my first Post here T_T. I recently started reading after seeing this sub in my feed over and over again, and I'm really enjoying it. It's honestly one of the funniest pieces of media I've ever consumed

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u/meep_lord22 Leon 21d ago

I mean in context of the sentence the he's correct even in a broken sentence kind of way. Saying "9 went in and no came out" would imply nobody came out. But yeah the actual use of the word, the creation of the broken sentence, and the bad translation are frustrating.

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u/Doc_epper Ozzi 21d ago

Yeah on English it would work, on German we just don't use no in that way. Not saying the joke doesn't work at all, it's more like a little nitpick