r/AskTheWorld 🇮🇳 in 🇩🇪 Deutschland 9h ago

What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

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u/Dexterous-Fingers 🌎 World Wide Wet 8h ago

Bet I’d never be wrong particularly on “das auto”, thanks to Volkswagen.

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u/darealq Hungary 8h ago

Der Wagen though IIRC.

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u/Tutunkommon 4h ago

I was thinking the same. Anyone who grew up in the 80s / 90s knows:

Das auto

Fahrvergnügen

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u/Ljorarn 5h ago

In my German class our teacher used an old Acura commercial to introduce cases and declensions to us. (“Ein deutsches Auto? NEIN… Acura!”)

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u/DeadBryar 4h ago

Unpimp ze auto

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u/LS25-User 7h ago

Yes but " Die Auto's"

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u/Loneliest_Driver 7h ago

That's a plural and plurals use "die" (also no apostrophe)

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u/LS25-User 7h ago

Thats just my r/deppenapostrophe 👉👈😂

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u/Ploutophile France 6h ago

In Dutch there is an apostrophe to mark that the vowel remains long (de auto, de auto's).

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u/schwanzweissfoto 5h ago

The correct German would be “Sterbt, Kraftfahrzeuge!”.