How to Say German Brand Names like Germans Do
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- There is no "s" at the end of Aldi, Adidas isn't pronounced how you think it is, and the BMW in BMW probably aren't the words you associate with it. Today we go through German brands and how Germans pronounce them versus how Americans pronounce them.
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Bayer has actually nothing to do with Bavaria. While Bayer in German means a Bavarian, in case of the farmaceutical company it's just a family name of the founder who was born in Wuppertal in Nord Rhine-Westphalia, which is completely different part of Germany.
No… Bayer is just the company, Bayern with an n is the state of Bavaria.
@@ronweasley1354 If you wanted to correct me you could have at least done a little bit of research. Ein Bayer in German means a Bavarian (with an n) in English. And this is what Mark said in the video. It means a person born or living permanently in Bavaria.
@@przemysawpabianczyk7218okay still has nothing to do the state as you agreed. Lots of people get it mixed up because of soccer/football with Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen. I’ve heard many people call Leverkusen “Bayern Leverkusen” even though that’s not the name and it’s not even near Bavaria (Bayern)
Never let the truth get in the way of a vlog
@@ronweasley1354He is completely right. He wrote BavariaN! Not Bavaria. So it's completely correct.
I love that you had to finish the Haribo jingle. Lawd, they are the best with earworms...another word I love to say with German pronunciation!
This reminds me of my German grandmother and how funny she pronounced the name "Woolworth" in German 😄
Oh yes, good memories. Miss my Oma. 😢
"Vohlvort" 🙂
Hi Wolters, It actually proves how similar Dutch is to German. Most names are pronounced the same way in Dutch. 😁
Dutch is more or less a german dialekt.
@@spanishflea634Go wash your mouth!
@@spanishflea634 like Portuguese is a Spanish dialect!
Dutch is German with its head kicked in
where did my comment go?
I visited the Haribo factory in Uzes, France. I believe it is the only production location that has a museum attached. Very interesting and worth a visit, especially if you have kids.
No "Ritter Sport" chocolate factory has also a museum of their own, by the way, ...
Thank you Mark.
Hope I get to make use of your enlightening 'how to say in German' on a future trip.
Proud to say I know most of these! Leaving to very soon to see our German friends for another great holiday!
Granted they are German names but it is a bit of over dramazation to not completely understand. If Europeans say an Anerican name wrong we can figure out what they are saying, especially based on the context.
We'll add an "s" to Aldi as long as they keep putting "umlauts" on every "a" in English! (Seriously, listen how they say "happy hour" -> "haeppi hour" 😂)
? should it be rather "huppy" hour?
That would souns like they rather serve canapés than cheaper drinks.
I enjoyed this video. 😊❤
To be fair, you can say Volkswagen and most Germans will know what you mean! A lot of the pronunciations are europe-wide, Audi, Addidas, Fanta, etc. I've actually never heard someone pronounce Haribo as Harry-bo!
lol thx for correcting us! I have German cars and German dogs. They’re simply the best
I guess I have to wait at least for next summer, but please do some more content on greece :-)
Liebe Grüße an meine Heimat 😢❤
I agree, with one exception: Audi. I think that the way you pronounced it in German actually means a belly button that is not an innie.😂
Doppelkupplungsgetriebe
Remember "Fahrvergnügen"?
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So many videos on Germany.....
Maybe because he’s visiting Germany? 😂
@@Clair1028 It's Oktoberfest season too, so maybe he's there for that occasion lol.
Maybe he just spent the day at wiesn.@Zodia195
Haribo is actually an acronym: HAns RIegel BOnn, as the founder was Hans Riegel from Bonn 🙂
Most Australians pronounce them correctly.. at least the Adidas we do!!
I grew up the northeast US, and I always pronounced Audi as OW-dee, never AW-dee. Maybe the mispronunciation is more common in the Midwest.
As a general rule, it's nice/ polite to try to use local pronunciation when abroad. Some languages tend to butcher others! For instance, it kills my ears to hear English people pronounce words in Hindi/ Punjabi...and as for their French pronunciation, well, it has comedy value, I guess.
How to instantly identify a UA-cam poser? Ask him to pronounce “Maybach.”
Haribo, its only US plant is right here in Wisconsin! Just north of the FIB/ Sconnie line on I-94. There's the huuuuuge plant as well as the well-decorated water tower which is easily seen from our version of the Autobahn.
All Wisconsinites over about 40 know how to properly pronounce Volkswagen or even VW, thanks to Ernie Von Schledhorn, a famous auto dealer who passed in 2014. He'd been a POW during the latter part of the war and would relocate from Germany to Wisconsin with his new bride in 1952.
Last, Adidas. Probably everyone over 45 at one time or another used that word as an acronym: All Day I Dream About S*x. What...we were kids.
Audi was Horch until the End of WW2. Because a lot of Nazis owned a Horch this Brand Name had a ugly smell.....
Horch is,of course a Family name(like Ford and others) But it also means "listen" in german language. Now listen is audi in Latin 😃 got it ?
Fun video! For the record, Americans in some places of US add the "s" to the end of a grocery store or other retail establishment, especially if it has a family name. Here in Michigan (and other states), we have a great store named Meijer. It's Dutch. What do we say when we're going there? "Meijers." Been doing that since I was a kid in the 1970s: "I'm going to Hendrik Meijer's store."
I've been studying German for a long time. I get tired of hearing these words mispronounced in my country- Australia. Thanks for making this video
Hi, first I like to tell, I enjoy your Videos 😊 Adidas - I don‘t know if you knew - stands for the founder Adolf nickname„Adi“ Dassler and Haribo was founded from HAns Riegel in BOnn … Little funfakt😅 by the way
My German friends haven't said anything to me or anyone else about pronunciations. Although I don't know if we've talked about any of those brands.
I know I won't remember any of those pronunciations so if I say it all American like, I guess they can mention it then if they are confused, lol.
This is super interesting, I am realizing that in Mexico we say them mostly correct; i would have expected german and english pronunciation to be more similar than german and spanish
lived in Germany for 4 years. This brings back memories. Living in Germany has its pros and cons, but gosh I miss it so much.
Well, not all of us Germans are too dumb to understand a brand name if it is pronounced slightly wrong or just in the English way.
04:40 Gummy bears? Goomy bears would be more correct.
Bayer American HQ is in my town
I am an American of German descent and this video is for someone like me who doesn't want to dishonor my family history and never got taught German lol (I only know a few words lol). Thanks Wolter. I knew a bit about the Volkswagon (since one of my ancestors is from Wurges, which is outside of Frankfort), so I knew about the W sounding like a V, but I did forget that the V sounds like an F.
I have heard Porche being said both ways here. One of my old HS classmates had that name and the E was pronounced that way.
Gesundheit is something I say naturally all of the time lol. It is one of the words I grew up learning lol.
But yeah it's nice to see I've gotten a few of these words right like Fanta, you find this in a LOT of fast food joints and amusement parks and restaurants here in Texas and that's how it's pronounced here.
Some corrections to your spellings in almost all of the german names haha:
Volkswagen (with an 'e', not an 'o')
Porsche (with an 's')
Würges (with an 'ü', that's a different letter than 'u' with a different pronunciation)
Frankfurt (with a 'u', not an 'o')
Gutes Video. Es ist wichtig zu wissen wie man diese Wörter richtig ausspricht.
Say Beemer.
@MercenaryTX Beamer in German means a projector. If you say Beemer in reference to a BMW, that will confuse the heck out of them.
Danke für das Video, soviel Zeit musste sein. 😮
Wish you would have included beer names.
Then he wouldn't be finished the day after tomorrow because there are almost 1500 breweries in Germany. Here are the biggest ones from Munich:
Paulaner : Pow-LAH-ner
Löwenbräu : that's tricky because there is no ö-sound in English, in French it would be œ and in Danish and Norwegian ø : LIR-ven-broy (the "ir" like in girl)
Spaten : SHPAH-ten
Hacker-Pschorr : Hucker-PSHORR
Augustiner : Ow-goose-TEE-ner (the "ow" like in cow)
Franziskaner : Frun-tseeze-KAH-ner ("Frun" like fun)
Weihenstephaner Heffeweisen
Thank you from Indiana
Please do German cities next. Specifically Stuttgart, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Koln lol...As an American that has lived in Germany, it's infuriating hearing my fellow countrymen say "STOOT-gart, BURR-lin, HAM-berg, MUN-nick" and whatever other butchering that is done lol.
I don't understand the Munich thing, that's the english name of the city, which can't really be pronounced wrong 😅 You mean München?
Also please don't forget the Umlauts like in Köln, they are different letters with different pronunciations ☺
If you happen to visit Germany's neighbor Austria, it's no longer Aldi, it's Hofer.
It seems to me that the Germans can understand you perfectly in most of these situations. They just choose NOT to. I am not talking about butchering the language...i mean about the tiny difference in Haribo, for instance. I would feel like they were trying to make me feel stupid deliberately. Over here, no one corrects pronunciation unless asked to, or unless it is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ( like giving an address to a taxi driver or some such). It is considered rude as h€ll.
I am not going to watch this video because his accent really annoys me in German, and many other languages he attempts to speak. The worst is when he pronounces 'Strasbourg' as 'Straussberg' German-style (which itself would be wrong).
Great, and probably rather needed, education! You could have put in the difference between "u" and "ü" too, so people know how to pronounce common tourist desitnations like Nürnberg, Füssen, Lübeck etc.
Bottle deposits and glass deposits also annoy me. And now the Netherlands has introduced it too. I can no longer even go abroad to avoid the bottle deposit. And the queuing culture also annoys me. Especially when getting on the train. I'm a bit spoiled by England. As a child and teenager, I found Sunday rest annoying. Now I think it's okay if one day of the week is completely different. But all in all, as a German, I can understand what annoys Americans about Germany.
Now, of course, I hope I didn't annoy Americans too much in restaurants when I always ordered a drink first before deciding on a menu. I usually already know what I want to drink, as long as it doesn't involve wine. 😂
Being raised in Germany, I’ve often fought with people here about pronunciation.
Wait so that's how you pronounce fanta? Looks like my friends owe me an apology cuz thats how I usually say it and they always rip on me for it claiming I say it weird. I've always said it that way cuz I remember going to the movies when the fanta commercials were fuckin everywhere and that's how they pronounced it
Au I hurt my wallet
Since they hear English all the time, I'm sure they really aren't that dumb and they know exactly what you're saying. They are just busting your chops, especially when you are speaking English at that time. You have now found German humor.
I HATE when people put an "s" on the end of store names. I had a boss the said Wal-Marts.
Adding an apostrophe-s is a very US Midwestern thing. Here in Illinois the biggest grocery chain is Jewel-Osco, and so many people will say, "I'm going to Jewel's; need anything?" 😄
When ordering a beer, just refer to the amount and/or the type of beer you want and you'll be fine 😉
=> eine Halbe (= half a litre), eine Mass (= 1 litre)
both usually for Helles or Export
=> ein Helles, ein Dunkles, ein Weizen/Weißbier, ein Pils, ein Radler, ein Alkoholfreies - and the list goes on...
The type of glass often depends on the beer.
Educating the public to be more cosmopolitan consumers of commercial brands - what an illuminating contribution to the study of contemporary culture! It used to be "Learn German so you can read Kafka in the original", now it is "Learn how to pronounce BMW like a German". Priceless.
Mercedes, from spanish "merced" like English "mercy"
That is the origin of the first name. But the brand name comes from a person with this first name namely Mercédès Adrienne Ramona Manuela von Weigl, née Jellinek.
fun fact: the way the Germans pronounce it is the standard way. lots of people around the world say it like that too. it is actually the Americans that have the accent, and who deviate from the norm.
How to say german brand names like a german and pronounce them incorrectly
Can't say I've ever hear Audi pronounced as "awdi"
Adidas comes from the Name Adrian(short "Adi") Dassler.
The founder of that brand....
His name was Adolf Dassler.
@@tubekulose Aj ja ? Das kann schon stimmen....Adolf ist ja schon "deutscher" als Adrian 😆 ein kleiner Fehler meinerseits.....
Oh, yes? Ok , can be like this. Adolf is of course much "more german" 😆 a little mistake of mine.....
@@tubekulose ja , habs schnell gegoogelt. Der Adolf wars !
@@UrsBaumgartner-md7nv 😁
Interesting video!
1:28 it’s Bayerische Motoren Werke
ah- di-DAS; the stress is on the last syllable. Named after Adolf (Adi) Dassler.
There were actually two brothers Dassler, but the got in a fight. so the other brother founded Puma...
no one stresses the last syllable, it's AH-di-das
If they ever give you crap for our mispronunciation of German brands: have them try Colgate on for size. Coal-gah-tuh.
germans can pronounce english pretty well. The problem with Colgate is that the advertisements push the totally wrong pseudo-german pronunciation. But in most brands, germans pronounce correctly.
Something i am always confused by is why the W is pronounced as Double-U. It makes no sense! First it would be more like double-V. Second, if we pronounce the V like Vee, then why not pronounce the W like Wee??? Double-U is just so impractical hahah.
you're really complaining about english pronuciation? 😅 there's literally NO rules in english... none of these words rhyme: though, thought, tough, through, cough
I have German brand ebike calked Haibike.
Ive only just found out it sort of says Sharkbike in german/english.
yes exactly hehe
Should we ask them the origins of Fanta and Volkswagen?
Very tricky here.
I heard that Adi Dassler, the founder of Adidas, actually had a brother who owned Puma. Apparently they had a company together but they ended up splitting. Is it correct?
Yes it is.
Puma = Rudidas 😅
Thank you❤
ADIDAS = All Day I Dream About Soccer.😊errr…um, sorry…ADIDAF = All Day I Dream About Futbol 😉
Interesting!!!
It is very regionally different how the one liter glas is called. in some regions these are absolutely called Stein, Maß is more bavarian.
There are also regions where they are called a "Humpen".
so its a language thing and they want you to pronounce it their way. but can they say squirrel in english
They're not hard to pronounce correctly. It's not that there's a brand called Tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen im Eichhörnchen 😅
Actually Audi is Swedish.
And what about other brands like Mercedes Benz, Siemens?
How come you think Audi is Swedish? Their HQ is in Ingolstadt, Germany.
@@Herzschreiber O.K. I was misinformed!