FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago(cw: death, upsetting) There is no shortage of food outside the concentration camp.NSFWhexbear.netimagemessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up195
arrow-up195image(cw: death, upsetting) There is no shortage of food outside the concentration camp.NSFWhexbear.netFuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareFumpyAer [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 years agoOkay I know this is a Serious Post and very distressing. But is the German word for famine really “Hungersnot?”
minus-squareCigarette_comedian [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·2 years agoI’m Norwegian, but 50% of our vocabulary is derived from German, and our word for famine is “Hungersnød”. So yes, famine is indeed “Hungersnot” in German. A rough translation of the composite word here would be Hunger(Hungers) and Need(nød/not)
minus-squareFumpyAer [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 years agoI hunger for the snot.
Okay I know this is a Serious Post and very distressing.
But is the German word for famine really “Hungersnot?”
I’m Norwegian, but 50% of our vocabulary is derived from German, and our word for famine is “Hungersnød”. So yes, famine is indeed “Hungersnot” in German. A rough translation of the composite word here would be Hunger(Hungers) and Need(nød/not)
I hunger for the snot.