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| t.chippendale Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5233 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1 of 6 28 July 2010 at 7:16am | IP Logged | ||
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I have heard the world "absolutlich" used a lot in informal German conversations, usually among younger Germans. However, I can't seem to find this word in any German-English dictionaries. Obviously the word means "absolutely" in English, but my question to native German speakers is this; its is improper to say "absolutlich?" Is it just an Americanized German word that has not yet found its way into many dictionaries? is it considered slang and very colloquial?
*The dictionaries site durchaus, schlechterdings, unumschränkt, and wirklich as the proper words for the English word absolutely. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| eumiro Bilingual Octoglot Groupie Germany Joined 5273 days ago 74 posts - 102 votes  Speaks: Czech*, Slovak*, French, English, German, Polish, Spanish, Russian Studies: Italian, Hungarian | Message 2 of 6 28 July 2010 at 9:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Never heard that word in a German conversation and even native Germans were surprised as I asked them about this word. Maybe we're already too old ;-)
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5765 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 3 of 6 28 July 2010 at 12:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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It isn't a regular word, just a joking mistranslation (and I've never heard it before). And I doubt that it will ever establish as a word, because it sounds too similar to 'absolut nicht!'
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| nuriayasmin Senior Member Germany Joined 5242 days ago 155 posts - 210 votes | Message 4 of 6 28 July 2010 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't use this word and have never heard it. I have just asked my teenage children but they don't know it, either. Did you just listen to a conversation where "absolutlich" was used? Then I'd guess that they actually said "Absolut nicht" as Bao already kind of suggested.
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| t.chippendale Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5233 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 5 of 6 28 July 2010 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||
This could very well be the case, sorry for any misunderstanding. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| renegade5005 Triglot Newbie United States xanga.com/philoaleth Joined 5332 days ago 18 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Persian, English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Modern Hebrew, Arabic (Levantine), French, Tzeltal, Arabic (classical), Sanskrit, Ancient Greek | Message 6 of 6 28 July 2010 at 6:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think one thing that makes German pretty hard is its slang words and idioms. All languages of course have many slang terms which cannot be translate but I really think German is one of those languages that consists too many of them.
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