Understanding German Without Speaking It

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its crazy how you don’t even gotta speak german to understand what he said in this tweet 😭 Ist es over für mich?

What it means

A screenshot of a social media post shows an English caption joking that German is understandable without speaking it, followed by a tweet asking, “Is it over for me?” above a photo of a person with hair covering their face. The punchline is that the visual expression makes the despairing meaning obvious even without translating the German sentence. EN: A screenshot of a social media post shows an English caption joking that German is understandable without speaking it, followed by a tweet asking, “Is it over for me?” above a photo of a person with hair covering their face. The punchline is that the visual expression makes the despairing meaning obvious even without translating the German sentence.

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person with hair covering face / человек с волосами, закрывающими лицо dark hair / тёмные волосы forehead / лоб face / лицо gray shirt / серая рубашка tweet screenshot / скриншот твита social media post / публикация в соцсети crying emoji / плачущий эмодзи pink wall / розовая стена text caption / текстовая подпись