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And are this phases with Wurst/Latte/Schnurz common in modern spoken language? In Russian/Ukrainian we also have such expression – это мне по барабану/das ist mir Trommel (not the best translation, but you get my idea). Nowadays it not so popular and sounds like something old.
The German ones are definitely common. I think Wurst (or Wurscht) is German-wide, the others might be regional. But all in use, no doubt.
We actually have a phrase that’s the same as “Das geht mir am Arsch vorbei” in Spanish (well at least I’ve heard it in Paraguay but I think that it comes from Argentina). It’s “Me pasa por el culo” but it is of course pretty harsh
Wie wuerde man “ist nicht egal” in Englisch uebersetzen?
Oben hast du:
– Du bist mir nicht egal.
– You do matter to me.
Aber im Lied scheint es mir, das “ist nicht egal’ ‘that’s not ok’ bedeutet.
Muss man das immer vom Kontext ausmachen?
Also, das heißt “Does matter.” Den Rest macht der Kontext. “Not having a ticket does matter” im Sinne von “is a problem”.
LOL!!!! Es tut mir leid :-)
Here is one for you : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KGcA7BrU1Ng Is mir egal!! :-)
I do not see the purpose for these things :)
A German told me once; The idea behind saying “Wurst” with the same meaning as “egal” is that the both ends of a sausage look the same, so it really doesn’t matter! :D
Oh, that makes sense and it kind of (very distantly) fits with an uber famous Schlager
“Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei”
A line which has some nihilistic quality :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4JSE32fuOc
I should mention that this song is NOT meant to be taken seriously. It’s more like satire. The singer is the singer from the band “Trio” who made great songs like “Da da da”
Ich liebe dein blog!
Das freut mich :)
Ich hoffe, dass alles bei dir und deiner Familie in Ordnung ist!
Ja alles gut. Danke dir.
My prayers go out to all those affected by the Berlin Christmas market attack. Berlin Strong!
I was so sorry to hear of the attack at the Weinachtsmarkt. Hoping you and all your readers are OK after this sickening incident.
Quite a few readers are in Berlin, so I hope so too. I’m and everyone I know is okay, so that’s great.
Wann in China ein Sack Reis runterfällt, macht es ein Geräusch?
Das ist mir Wurst.
Mir auch :)
Funny that French stands halfway between German and English on this one. The French expression “Ça m’est égal” is the exact translation for “Es ist mir egal”. But anywhere else, “égal” means “equal”. Und ich gebe es zu: umgefallene Säcke Reis sind mir egal…
Deutsch probably took the expression from French :).
By the way… is there any way to make the expression stronger in French. An equivalent to “scheißegal”?
Of course, you can make it stronger by adding an adverb (which, in such a case, should be called an ad-adjective!): “ça m’est complètement égal”, “ça m’est totalement égal”, or any other colloquial adverb like “vachement”, “diablement”, “sacrément”, “foutrement” or “fichtrement” for example. Then there are strong familiar expressions like “je m’en fous” and “je m’en fiche” (or “je m’en contrefous/contrefiche”, which are one step stronger), or “je n’en ai rien à cirer”. In Québec, one would say “je m’en câlisse” (making the “â” a long vowel), but nobody would understand outside Canada!
So ganz ist die Bedeutung von “egal” im Sinne von gleich aber nicht verloren gegangen, denn man kann statt “ist mir egal” auch “ist mir gleich” sagen. Wird nicht sehr haeufig verwendet, aber ist durchaus noch nicht total aus dem Sprachgebrauch verschwunden!
Jetzt bin ich mal ein Klugscheißer und sage, dass ist ja nicht “egal”, dass die Bedeutung von “gleich” hat, sonder “gleich”, dass die Bedeutung von “egal” hat ;)
What is the difference between “Das ist egal” and “das macht nichts”. Is the latter not used that much?
“das macht nichts” expresses the idea that something isn’t a problem. Like… someone is a bit late and apologizes and you could be like “Das macht nichts”. That’s like “No worries.”
So it’s not really interchangeable with “Ist mir egal”, even though they do have some common ground.
It’s pretty common, too.
Hope that helps.
Ich mag die Video, “Is mir egal.”
As for the connection to “equal”, for all the Scrabble enthusiasts, there is the word “inegal” which means “not equal” but is really really rare. Many Germans probably don’t know it. So for learning the language, the word is Schnurz Piep egal.
Yeah, “inegal” would definitely cause one of the famous Scrabble fights :)
Die “Wurst”-Variante habe ich bisher nur als “Wurscht” gehört, sowohl von Berlinern als auch von anderen Deutschen. So habe ich es auch in der Schule gelernt.
Sehe ich auch so; das wird eh nur im gesprochenen Deutsch verwendet und da hab ich auch noch nie “Wurst” gehoert, sondern immer “Wurscht”