Germany - The German Language

Confusion - it's German!

The word for cookie is cake, the word for cake is kitchen, and the word for kitchen is cook.

The word for pan is lid.

The word for on is off.

Things have genders. I imagine it's 1900 and a room full of old men are sitting around discussing whether a word should be male, female, or neutral. It often works and I get the article in front of the word right. Sometimes the logic is slightly off. For example, a blouse is feminine (die Bluse) but a skirt is neutral (das Hemd). Why? Well women wear the skirt, but men love looking at women in skirts. All items in a kitchen are masculine but the kitchen itself is feminine. Why? Because men make the machines and women use them. UGH! Things don't have genders. They don't reproduce, they don't have organs. It makes no sense.


But some things are also funny to me (or at least I make them funny so I remember them):
a fork is die Gabel ( which makes me think of a turkey or people gobbling up their food)
the word for through (as in through the door) is durch - which sounds to me like someone running into a door
the word for train is Zug...which I say as "zug! zug!" to sound like a train whistle