Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
These AMAZING TRICKS can help anyone translate German words, whether they know any German or not. Remember to head to squarespace.com/robwords to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using the code "robwords".
German and English are part of the same language family. That means you can tweak German words to make them look a lot more like their English equivalents. In this video, I'll show you how.
I'll also teach you a bit about the shared history of German and English, and why we have Germany's famous fairytale-tellers the Brothers Grimm to thank.
Check me out on Twitter & TikTok:
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These AMAZING TRICKS can help anyone translate German words, whether they know any German or not. Remember to head to squarespace.com/robwords to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using the code "robwords".
German and English are part of the same language family. That means you can tweak German words to make them look a lot more like their English equivalents. In this video, I'll show you how.
I'll also teach you a bit about the shared history of German and English, and why we have Germany's famous fairytale-tellers the Brothers Grimm to thank.
Check me out on Twitter & TikTok:
twitter.com/robwordsYT
tiktok.com/@robwords
![NUMPIRE, NAPRON, [N]EWT and other words were getting wrong](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XBVu4CjYZmo/mqdefault.jpg "NUMPIRE, NAPRON, [N]EWT and other words were getting wrong
Did you know an umpire should actually be a numpire?
Whats more... an apron should be a napron, an adder a nadder, a newt an ewt, and a nickname an ickname. This video explains why on earth that is.
For centuries, English scholars have been accidentally rebracketing words (its also known as metanalysis). Many of their mistakes have stuck in the language, meaning we continue to get these words wrong.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Numpire, napron & nadder
0:27 Explanation of rebracketing
1:20 Newt & nickname
1:44 Evidence in other languages
2:06 Errors that didnt catch on
2:24 Bye bye")
