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- Check "ausen-hui-innen-pfui" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "ausen-hui-innen-pfui" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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I LAUGHED SO HARD WHEN I READ IT,
“Hui (хуй)” in Ukrainian is literally a dick but on the level of “fuck” in English by swear-ness.
definitely my new favorite phrase among all the languages I speak, “Cry me a river, build a bridge and get the fuck over it” stays on the same place as this one
I’ll probably say it as “Außen phui, innen hui!” because it sounds much much funnier to me that way
i just thought and “Außer Phui Ihnen Hui” would also sound funny asf, overlaps with the Ukrainian phrase “хуй тобі” which literally means “get a dick/you ain’t getting shit”
Not sure if it really overlaps.
“außen pfui, innen hui” would be something you could say for a person that’s really ugly but has a heart of gold. Well… don’t say it, pfui would sound really really harsh in such a context.
Oh and keep in mind it’s “außeN” not “außeR” as you wrote. This letter really really makes a big difference here.
That’s the thing with “R”, should mean “Except of” then as far as I understand.
I’m actually a fan of saying something that doesn’t make much sense or needs a load of explanation to get it among friends, so that’s the point, Thanks for pointing out though, Better save than sorry, you wouldn’t want a guy walking around and saying nonsense because he misunderstood something, I, however, try to do it purposefully so that when I actually say something dumb people assume I’m just joking :D
Have never thought about that, but indeed “Hui” sounds positive to my ear in German. There’s actually a character Poopybutthole (yes, that’s his name) in Rick and Morty who says that all the time so I guess he’s the reason I’m used to hearing this word, still I burst laughing every time I hear it
I’m actually a fan of saying something that doesn’t make much sense or needs a load of explanation to get it among friends, so that’s the point,
Oh, that’s perfect then!! Playing around with the language like does help with learning (besides also having some fun).
Yep, I’ve noticed that too, I once started saying English “beef” instead of the Ukrainian word for “Deal” when shaking hands with friends because I got to know that it can also mean dispute in English (For some reason my brain picks a few words that I’ll be hyperfocused onto for a few days having them on my mind in background mode once in a while, helps remember words though), and it grew into us saying it in 6 different ways depending on mood, beef as meat in Ukrainian, English and German and beef as dispute in the respective 3 languages, the german “Auseinandersetzung” makes it even funnier because it’s kilometer long, all of them mean “deal” to us though. But I got a bit carried away from what I wanted to say initially, as I started to learn German my humor started to require not only knowing russian Ukranian and English, but now also German and it’s sometimes annoying that there are few people I can joke like that with, most of my friends either speak English or German besides Ukrainian. Mein Gott, I just wrote a paragraph
No one will understand it then. “hui” is positive and “pfui” is negative. People will assume you mean the saying, but in reverse :)
Just to be sure… “hui” is usually positive sounding in German. Like “hui, that’s pretty big.”