German Tongue Twisters
Zungenbrecher

Rough Translations

1. Fisher's errand boy is fishing fresh fish, fresh fish are fished by Fisher's errand boy.
2. Those Danes, that stretch the Dane's Danes, stretch their Danes.
3. Nodding nieces and seesawing spruces.
4. "Abraham!" said Bebraham; "Could I have your zebra?"
5. Gruel is always gruel, war-hatchet is always war-hatchet.
6. On the butcher's shop sign the space between "Cheese" and "and" and "and" and "Sausage" was to small.
7. The brewer in Zipf (a town in Upper Austria) draws ten barrels of Zipfer (the beer from Zipf).
8. Where are you, puffball (bovista mushroom)?
9. Did you already know that it can lead to irritations for listeners when in a speech "Walzwerke" (rolling mills) and "Waldzwerge" (forest dwarfs) are mentioned, as it is phonetically not quite easy to distinguish whether this is about Walzwerke or Waldzwerge. Thank God it is relatively rare that a Waldzwerg visits a Walzwerk or a Walzwerk is set up in the surroundings of Waldzwerge. If, however, a Waldzwerg builds a Walzwerk, this is would be a Waldzwergwalzwerk (forest dwarf rolling mill). If he also works in it, he is obviously a Walzwerkwaldzwerg (rolling mill forest dwarf).
10. From the dead giant's trousers grew a red wild rose.
11. Two astronauts chewed and chwed while the gathered blue-green moonstones.
12. nonsensical sentence
13. On October 10 at 10:10 ten tame goats dragged ten hundredweight of sugar to the zoo.
14. Do you know that the "that" is the most used word in the sentence?
15. Brown-blue wedding dress
17. Small chinese bowl
18. A librarian with a diploma ...
19. Brewer Bauer is brewing brown beer, brown beer is beeing brewed by brewer Bauer.
20. The roofer is roofing your roof, therefore thank the roofer who is roofing your roof.
21. German: Mostpappen = Dialekt für "vom Saufen schiefes Maul
22. It happens that the decendants cannot live on the income and then die completely depraved.
23. Those power women with their women power.
24. Soup of shark's tail meat
25. Three fat dumb women are thundering through the thick stupid village.
26. The bricklayer Boeckl carried a pick and a pack on his back. Behind him walked the tramp Baeckl with his dog Bockl. Suddenly Baeckl's Bockl snapped at Boeckl's pack and togetehr with the pick tore it of his back.
27. Those that despise those that think the Didi Hallervorden Show (by a popular German comedian) is great are snobs.
28. The cow ran until she fell over. German: Die Kuh rannte bis sie fiel um.
29. In the fish-shop: (Good) Morning! (Good) Morning! (Do you have) fish? Tomorrow! Tomorrow? (Yes) tomorrow! (Good) Morning!
30. Merry, peaceful tropical fruit.
31. Kalle the bald cat bald head scratcher scratches bald cat's heads.
32. Snails are horrified when snails lick snail, because to the horror of many snails, snails don't like snails.
33. black Swatch (watch)
34. If you idiot say idiot to me idiot, ...
35. You are Buddhist.
36. potential talents
37. Live according to the rune of Siegreit: "Your virtue be this: never tease the ancient bull spirit in the icy fog!
38. Mr. von Hagen, may I dare to ask you what collar you were wearing as you lay ill of stomach in the city of Copenhagen.
39. The purpose of the purpose is to serve as purpose. If the purpose doesn't serve as purpose to it's purpose, the purpose has no purpose!
40. Do abbots mow hay? Abbots never mow hay. If abbots mow, abbots mow gras.
41. The small girl rubs her knee silently when I travel to Leipzig.
42. The boss of the postal bus of Potsdam boxes in the boxing club of Potsdam.
43. Itty-bitty children cannot crack a cherry stone.
45. Fischer's freshly combed errand boy is devouring feshly fried fresh-fish patties (hamburgers).
46. On a Russian pasenger boat a Czech swing-jazz cellist was jamming.
47. We Viennese Washerwomen would wash white laundry, if we knew where warm soft water was.
48. It greens so green when the flowers in Spain flower.
49. Sayings that must be said fast, I can hardly say fast.
50. The chaplain Klapp is planning a foldable cardboard poster.
51. Two coal-black Czech-twittering pigmy swallows are sitting between two plum-tree branches.
52. He said about the "that" that: that that is the that, that is written as "that".
53. If bees are beamed to beams, bees are beamed to bees.
54. Paupers have Arms. Paupers have legs. Legs have no arms. Poor legs!
55. Long ways recall wise words.
56. Such things depress you anyway.
57. Wedding dress stays wedding dress and red cabbage stays red cabbage.
58. If you idiot call me "idiot", ich will call you "idiot", so often "idiot" until you idiot no longer can say "idiot" to me.
59. Family dispute among slivovits slurping, top, twistung and perspirating twittering sisters.
60. The child that cried so loud, sat on a hot stove plate.
61. Max is waxing wax masks. What is Max waxing? Wax masks, Max is waxing.
62. In the center of the gras, a cadett is kneeing in a coffin.
63. Uncle Fritz is fishing for fresh fish
64. Klaus Knopf loves dumplings, (another word for) dumplings, meatballs.
65. This is the key to the garden, for which the three maidens are waiting. The first is called Binka, the second is called Bibeljabinka, the third is called Cezizizaknabbeljababbeljabibbeljabinka. Hmmm, saif Mrs. Binka to Mrs. Bibeljabinka, what nice lace does Mrs. Cezizizaknabbeljababbeljabilleljabinka have on her skirt.
66. They didn't have to change cars, so she silently gave herself to him. But beacause the points were switched the wrong way they rode back in a hearse.
67. Those who report to the police those who let the thieves escape will receive a reward!
68. One rooster, two chicken, three ducks, four geese, five pigs, six cows, seven oxen, eight nuns, nine knobby, hunchbacked beggar women are spending the night with ten Costantinoplean bagpipe-maker assistants.
69. Center-pass kicker Flick kicks fast center-passes.
    
70. She was the doughiest dough shell of all doughy dough shells of the shell pond.
71. If you give opium to Grandpa, opium will kill Grandpa.
72. Little children cannot crack cherry stones.
73. The wannton fish-sinner Franz was impudently catching fat five-finger fish before the river-fall.
74. Smoked salmon with leek rice.
75. The ladies in Baden-Baden (a town in Germany) bathe frequently. (They) wash the Baden-Baden Gentlemen with (them).
76. Thrilling: foolish Spanish peeking-toms are stretching thrilling Spanish Fools.
77. Snails are shocked when they lick other snails because for many snails it is shocking that for some snails snails are not tasty.
78. He is eating an apple, she an orange.
79. Twelve muttering speakers say "you" to twelve muttering speakers, which always say "you".
80. The woodpecker, sparrow, stork and sparrowhawk jumped post-haste with a screech down the steep path.
81. Brackish-water fishermen are called brackish-water fishermen because brackish-water fishermen fish in brackish-water fish in brackish-water.
82. At the hairdresser: "Hello, Carl." "How do you do, Carl?" "Fine, Carl." "Bald, Carl?" "Yes, Carl, bald."
83. The wine barrel that Mrs. Weber emptied, destroyed her liver measurements.
84. A well-roasted goose eaten with a golden fork is a good gift from God.
85. The sparrow walks early and late among spinach.
86. A very hard-to-say-fast saying is a saying to be said fast, a only hard-to-say-fast saying is called a saying to be said fast.
87. In all traps of St. Gallen all are babbling/mumbling: "Everybody likes the traps of St. Gallen in which all are babbling/mumbling."
88. The dentist is pulling teeth with the dentist's pliers in the dentist's room.
89. Gudrun's turkey is resting well. Well resting is Gudrun's turkey.
90. John is splitting hard wood behind the high house.
91. Two men that load shop blinds in front of a chocolate shop blind, invite shop-blind girls to dinner.
92. Conversation in a store: (Good) morning! Morning! Do you have plaster? Plaster? We'll have Plaster tomorrow. Tomorrow? Mornig! Morning!
93. You have got to chew your bread well,
    so that you excrements get really brown.
94. New think you have thought, because thinking thoughts is thoughless thinking. Wenn you think you think then you only think you think, but think you never do.
95. Russian Russian are sliding down Russian slides the Russian way.
96. A boxer of the champions league. Boxed himself into a mess of goo. And from the piled up mess of goo proudly rose the champion of the league!
97. The cat ate the porc-belly, now it can't say meow!
98. The lifesaver is not digusted by anything, he bites into the maggot
99. Pug-dachshund-greyhound-poodle (a nonsense dog)
100. If your dachshund calls my dachshund a dachhund again, your dachshund will be slapped so hard by my dachshund that he will not be able to say "dachshund" anymore.
101. The frog-researching frog researcher is studying frog-reasearching frog research.
102. The suitcase in the sleeping waggon lay heavy on his tail.
103. Narrow-gauge railway tracks are narrower than wide-gauge railway tracks.
104. I saw a pearl cushion in the window.
105. If crickets grill crickets for crickets then crickets grill crickets for crickets!
106. Today Hans will be coming home. Lisa is happy. Whether he comes by way of Oberammergau, Or whether he comes by way of Unterammergau, Or whether he comes at all, Is not certain.
107. 60 Czech chemist bosses chase chaste chinese monks into shallow lakes used for extinguishing fires.
108. On seven seal-cliffs seven clans of seals are sitting, which are nudging each other in the ribs until they tip over the cliffs.
109. Czech Gucci handbags
110. Ten goats pull ten hundred-weights of cement to the dentist to cement broken teeth.
111. What a badly entitled bequest spawns from weak memory.
112. How fortunate that God cast the bells.
113. The whiskey mixer mixes whiskey with the whiskey mixer. With the whiskey mixer the whiskey mixer mixes whiskey.
114. This is a log, a spliced log, A well-spliced spliced log. And this well-spliced spliced log belongs to Mrs. Scheitschleißer, and Mrs. Scheitschleißer is sitting behind the house and splicing logs.
115. Sticking in my pot set is potato fritter fat!
116. Those that will catch those that have stolen the geese will be rewarded.
117. I'm standing in the rain and waiting for you. I'm waiting in the rain an like you.
118. 333 horsemen rode 333 times round the large round Rastenburger town hall.
119. Max if you like wax masks then make wax masks!
120. The airport sparrow landed on the airport. On the airport the airport sparrow landed.
121. Itty-bitty cats vomit itty-bitty vomit. Itty-bitty vomit is vomited by itty-bitty cats.
122. Daughter of the manufacturer of Constantinoplan bag-pipe pipes
123. In thick spruce thicket thick spruces are diligently nodding.
124. Between two sharp rocks two hissing hiss-snakes where sitting and hissing.
125. Between "or" and "and" and "and" and "and" and "and" and "or" there is always a space.
126. Behind Hermann Hanne´s house a hundred shirts are hanging out. A hundred shirts are hanging out behind Hermann Hanne´s house.
127. This is a log. This is a log. A finely spliced log sent by Miss Meissner from Neisse and she lets say quite finely, that her husband is a busy log-splicer, who at night - before eating or biting anything - would have spliced a lot of logs.
128. The brushes with the black bristles brush better than the brushes with the white bristles.
129. The cats are scratching in the litterbox. In the litterbox the cats are scraching.
130. Seldom I eat vinegar; when I eat vinegar, I eat vinegar with salad.
131. When after Greeks creep Greeks, Greeks creep after Greeks.
132. When rumballs roll around rumballs, rumballs roll around rumballs.
133. Four multiplied by four five times is more than five multiplied by five four times.
134. Ten goats pulled ten hundredweight to the zoo.
135. Twenty dwarfs were demonstrating handstands, ten in the closet, ten on the sandy beach.
136. In the whole round there was nothing but round dogs.
137. Seven snowshovelers shovel seven shovels full of snow.
138. With no bran and no germ, no small grain can germinate.
139. With no bran and no germ, the small child can barely chew grain.
140. Small violet flannel rags
141. On the love-trip the giant (of body) said "rub it Lisa" and she rubbed it silently.
142. Six Saxonian drinkers pay ten Czech bar bills.
143. Here you have a log - a well-spliced spliced log from Mrs. Weißen from Meißen who wants you to know that her husband, Mr. Weißen, is the best log slicer in all of Meißen. He hasn't eaten a bite yet, but already spliced and split a whole heap of logs.
144. Wife of deputy of the captain of the Danube steamboat company
145. Two slimy snakes slink between two rocks and hiss.
146. At the postoffice things are packed and sorted.
147. An ironing board remains an ironing board.
148. When the (Mercedes-) Benz brakes the Benz brake lights light up.
149. Behind a spruce thicket finks are diligently picking.
150. The night watchman is tooting. And when he has tooted enough, he puts his tooter back into the tooter-box.
151. She placed the Czech matchbox on the table. ...
152. Critical toads don't chew any concrete croquettes.
153. A car drove through the Gossensaß (village in South Tyrol). and came into the Sossengass ("sauce-lane") so that the whole mud of the street poured over the passengers.
154. The cat steps on the stairs until they are bent.
155. Our caretaker's name is Mouse. Most of the time he lives in the cellar. People say he shags/steals.
156. A black man with a gazelle never hesitates in the rain.
157. Who knows nothing and knows that he knows nothing knows more than who knows nothing and doesn't know he knows nothing.
158. Mariechen says to Mariechen, let me smell Mariechen, so Mariechen let Mariechen smell.
159. When seals crawl behind seals, seals crawl after seals.
160. The rattlesnakes rattled until their rattles sounded listless.
161. The stupid Doffels The fat stupid Doffel carried the thin stupid Doffel through the deep thick village dirt. Whereupon the thin stupid Doffel thanked the fat stupid Doffel that the fat stupid Doffel carried the thin stupid Doffel through the deep thick village dirt.
162. The wax mask maker makes wax masks out of wax mask wax.
163. Who is minimally immune to aluminum has aluminum minimal immunity. Who has aluminum minimal immunity is minimaly immune to aluminum.
164. Who uses "use" without "to" need not use use at all.
165. Allergic Algerians, Algerian allergic (people).
166. The mail is loaded with parcels.
167. Fat nieces are composing poetry in thick spruce thicket, ...
168. This night, he said, said Hans, said Mary: If he is coming by the way of Oberammergau, or else by the way of Unterammergau, or else not at all, you never know.
169. The Swiss welder is sweating and welding. The Swiss sweater is welding and swaeting. Sweating, the Swiss welder is welding.
170. The tourist is happy when he is on a tour and is constantly eating.
171. The Cottbus mail coach driver is cleaning the mail box of the Cottbus mail coach with Cottbus mail coach box paste.
172. The lieutenant of Leuthen ordered his people not to ring before the lieutenant of Leuthen ordered his people to ring.
173. The chaplain is pastin cardboard posters.
174. Two swallows are twittering between two plum branches, ...
175. I wish you as many good days in the year as the fox has hair on the brush (tail).
176. In Ulm and around Ulm and roundabout Ulm.
177. Mr and Mrs Lücke were walking over a bridge. When a mosquito came and stung Mrs Lücke in the back of the neck. Then Mr Lücke took his crutch and hit Mrs Lücke in the back of the neck. And therefor Mrs Lücke, with the mosquito and the crutch in the back of the neck, fell over dead.
178. Few know how much one must know to know how little one knows.
179. That the "that", that is written with "ß" is not the "that", that is written with "s", that certainly is true.
180. Wax mask, change of measurement ...
181. We Vienese washerwomen want to wash white laundry, if we knew where warm water is. Warm watter we know, white laundry we wash.
182. In a chocolate store store girls are unloading chocolate. ...
183. When suffering my only confort was love.
184. My Husband is called Deer.
185. The shining of the moon already seemed nice.
186. Red cabbage stays red cabbage, loaf of bread stays loaf of bread, wedding dress stays wedding dress.
187. Tailor's scissors cut sharp. Sharp cut tailor's scissors.
188. Never think you think, because when you think you think you don't think, you only think you think, because the thinking of thoughts is thoughless thinking.
189. Bismarck bit Marc until Marc bit Bismarck!
190. When flies fly behind flies flies are flying after flies.
191. Under a spruce root I heard a gnome farting.
192. Ten tame goats pulled ten hundredweights of sugar to the train of Zittau.
193. A fat lady wanted to get through the thick dirt. Whereupon the fat lady asked the fat servant if the fat servant would carry the fat lady through the thick dirt. Then then fat servant carried the fat lady through the thick dirt, whereupon the fat lady thanked the fat servant for carrying the fat lady through the thick dirt.
194. Unfortunately he sang lots of loud songs to the lute.
195. Why are you looking so stubborn boy, were you in the beer bar?
196. Donkeys don't eat nettles. Nettles don't eat donkeys!
197. The Spanish adore exciting games.
198. When the pool attendants of Baden-Baden (German city) swim, then the people of Baden-Baden also swim.
199. Because godfathers asked for the roast, we roasted turkey for the godfathers. Could offer turkey-roast to the godfathers, because we had roasted turkey - like the godfathers had requested.
200. Who digs a pit for other, has a pit-digging device.
201. How much spawn would such an amphibian easily spawn, if an amphibian would spawn spawn.
202. Do you know that the "the" is the most used word in the sentence?
203. New pond fish for the native fishpond.
204. pale flat chest
205. Some sponges for make-up swim some sponges for make-up don't swim.
206. Rowboat, bread with butter, ...
207. Freshly laquered burnished painted box.
208. Fear of fruit flesh leads to flight from fruit flesh.
209. Stanislaus dislikes the sausage in the borscht. The sturgeon in the borscht doesn't matter to Stanislaus.
210. Freshly picked fruit the fruit picker picks fresh. The fruit picker picks freshly picked fruit.
211. Who grills a grilled sausage for others, has a grilled sausage grill device.
212. There is gypsum in Gypsum Street, if there is no gyspum, then there is no gyspum in Gypsum Street.
213. Man is what he eats
214. Jealousy is a passion that searches zealously what causes sorrow.
215. Fat Dirk (a name) carries the thin Dirk through the thick dirt, whereupon the fat Dirk thanks the thin Dirk for the thin Dirk having carried the fat Dirk through the thick dirt.
216. Fighting-cows fight against cramps in their knees.
218. The shark says "huhu" to the eagle owl (Bubo bubo), the eagle owl says "hi" to the shark.
219. Otto's pug mocks (his master) | Otto: Bad dog! Out! | Otto's pug skips out | Otto: Good dog || Otto holds coke | Otto holds fruit | Otto harks | Otto: Pug! Pug! | Otto hopes || Otto's pug knocks (at the door) | Otto: Come, pug! Come! | Otto's pug comes in | Otto's pug pukes | Otto: Oh God oh God!
220. By spiders spun Spaniards eat meals with pointed spades. ...
221. Two siskins twitter between two plum tree branches.
222. Wenn Nietsche's cat feeds, Mieze's Nietsche doesn't wipe anything.
223. Malte's maltese (dog) Malte on Malta once painted Malte's maltese Malte ...
224. When I am teaching an empty doctrine in an empty space I am teaching an empty doctrine just theoretically.
225. Who can do the Can-Can in Cannes, can do the Can-Can everywhere.
226. The mineworker borrows a company-owned Borgward (famous German car) from the guard of the mine.
227. Never give grandpa opium, because opium kills grandpa
228. If cockroaches crap behind Interlaken, cockroaches crap behind Interlaken.
229. The one who captures the one who knocked down the pile which stands on the bridge which lies on the way to Wuppertal will receive a reward, and be commended and posted in the municipal showcase.
230. Kai can't drive any small smart Colonian Barkeepers crazy.
231. Sweet Suzie from Saxony says: "Six Saxonians are speaking Saxonian for six hours."
232. Nelly the Nanny fools Molly the Granny, because Jenny and Lenny the fools insist that Nelly can fool the Granny. But Molly calls Polly the funny one, and Polly the funny one fools Jenny and Lenny the fools. Jenny and Lenny the fools call Nelly the Nanny for help, but Molly the Granny and Polly the funny one are now helped by Benny from Bonn, who now fools Jenny and Lenny the fools and Nelly the Nanny too.
233. Bob's pop-up blocker blocks Bob's pop-ups.
234. Notice in a mountain shelter in Austria: Who upon arrival gives no information on his origin in the future will not receive accomodation.
235. A black sweatshirt and a little black bag with sixtysix sausages in Sächsische Straße (a street in Berlin).
236. The babbling chaplain glues lively cardboard posters onto the chapell's rattling wall.
237. The morning clock wackes the baker because of the breads. He has to stretch, to move and to elongate because of the breads. Move, stretch, elongate yourself! bake, baker, breads for me!
238. The cook chased up to the shipdeck, the fly that shit on his beefsteak.
239. Rumpelstiltkin's little box of matches
240. Sesam (a name) saw sesame seeds. Sesam (a name) saw sesame seeds.
241. Cat paws scratch grimaces on bright-yellow air-matresses. The grimaces smack, air escapes, what is easy for cat paws. Cat paws scratch grimaces on bright-yellow air-matresses. Air-matresses soon burst, hear how it hisses, whistles, and pops!
242. Seven quick foundlings from Sindelfingen caught seven finches, full of fleas! Thus, seven quick foundlings from Sindelfingen quickly fled from fleas and seven finches from seven quick foundlings from Sindelfingen.
243. Test for the tolerance of contact lenses
244. meeting of the commission for applications
246. someone authorized to check the brakes of a train
247. Value-added tax number
248. the right to cross a (private) property German: das Recht, ein Grundstück zu überqueren
249. permit from the neighbor to stay below the minimum prescribed distance when building an attachment (to a house) German: Einverständnis des Nachbarn, den vorgeschriebenen Mindestabstand für einen Anbau zu unterschreiten
250. examination to test if somebody can live on his or her own German: Prüfung, ob jemand fremde Hilfe benötigt
251. Squirrel's tail. German: Eichkätzchenschweif (Eichhörnchenschweif)
252. That is my opinion too. German: Ich meine schon auch.
253. No small child can split a small cherry stone for a small child. German: Kein kleines Kind kann keinem kleinen Kind einen kleinen Kirschkern klein klieben (=spalten).
254. Then it will wilt away. German: Dann verdorrt er Dir!
255. Shoe-shine brush, spice box. German: Wichsbürste (Bürste, mit der man Schuhe putzt, also "wichst") - Gewürzbüchse
256. If I can come, I will come, but I will hardly be able to come. German: Wenn ich kommen kann, komme ich, ich werde aber kaum kommen können.
257. I have laid one egg every year anyway. German: Ich habe sowieso jedes Jahr ein Ei hinunter gelegt.
258. The devil shall take you! German: Dass dich der Teufel (hole)!
259. Conversation on the edge of a field: Man, mow! No priest you mow! Do priests also mow? No man. German: Ein Pfarrer (Pater) trifft am Wegesrand auf einen Knecht mit einer Sense, der sich gerade ausruht. "Mann, mähe!" "Nein, Pater, mähe du!" "Mäht denn ein Pater auch?" "Nein, Mann."
260. The cover of an oil pot. German: Der Deckel von einem Öltiegel.
261. I also brought down an egg for him. German: Ich habe ihm auch ein Ei heruntergeholt.
262. If my (pot) belly would allow it, I would go up the Kampenwnad (a mountain). German: Wenn ich mit meiner Wampe könnte, ging ich auf die Kampenwand.
263. On a meadow, quietly and silently sat a cricket, quietly and silently - head cut off. German: Auf einer Wiese ganz ruhig und still eine Grille. Ganz still und ruhig - Kopf abgemäht.
264. Hey Toni, go down, or I will hit you down! If Toni doesn't go down, I will take Toni and hit him down. German: He Toni, geh hinunter! Geht der Toni nicht hinunter, dann pack ich den Toni und hau ihn um.
265. Such six as we five are, can't be found among four, because we three are the two only ones. German: Solche sechs wie wir fünf gibt es keine vier weil wir drei die zwei einzigen sind. Bayrische logik :-)
266. Do you also need saucers? Or are the (small) cups alone enough? German: Brauchst du auch Untertassen? Oder tun es die Tassen (Schalen) alleine auch?
267. Has anybody actually said anything? German: Hat jemand vielleicht etwas gesagt?
268. A miller's girl has a poppy-seed-dumpling drawer and a sewing-needle drawer as well. German: Ein Müllermädchen hat eine Mehlnudellade und eine Nähnadellade auch.
269. There aren't so many days in the year as the fox has hair on his tail. German: Es gibt nicht so viele Tage im Jahr, wie der Fuchs am Schwanz hat Haare.
270. On the board for smoked ham lies a piece of smoked ham. German: Auf einem Speckbrett liegt ein Stück (Bröckerl) Speck
271. You are also comming down? German: Kommst du eh auch hinunter?
272. The cutlery ordered too late. German:Das Besteck zu spät bestellt
273. Between Illmitz and Apetlon (2 places in the Burgenland) hang two double-pointed plums. Wo can name the two duoble-pointed plums is a good man. German: Zwischen Illmitz und Apetlon (2 Ortschaften im Burgenland) hängen zwei zweigespitzte Pflaumen. Wer die zwei zweigespitzten Pflaumen nennen kann, der ist ein braver Mann.
274. Twenty squashed plums and twenty squasched plums are forty squashed plums.
275. Toni says to Toni: "Toni go down!". Toni doesn't go down so Toni hits Toni down. German: Der Toni sagt zum Toni: "Toni, geh hinunter!" Der Toni geht nicht hinunter, darum haut der Toni den Toni um.
276. The priest of Bschlabs (village in Tyrol) has ordered knife and fork for smoked ham too late on Pentecost. German: Der Pfarrer von Bschlabs (Ort in Tirol) hat zu Pfingsten das Speckbesteck zu spät bestellt.
277. No small child can split a small cherry stone for a small child. German: Kein kleines Kind kann keinem kleinen Kind einen kleinen Kirschkern klein klieben (=spalten).
278. Ten shaggy gypsies are draging ten hundredweights of cement over to the fence.
279. I can come, I will come, but I hardly think I can come. German: Wenn ich kommen kann, komm ich, aber ich meine, ich kann kaum kommen.
280. Two squashed plums and two plums squashed are four squashed plums.
281. Knife and fork for smoked ham ordered too late are knife and fork for ham that have been ordered too late.
282. A plucked squirrel tail in sulfuric acid.
283. Ten shaggy gypsies drag 10 hundredweight of sugar to the fence.
284. About two Strings of a Guitar: The A-string is already (torn) off, The E-string is also (torn) off. German: Das A ist ohnehin ab, das E ist auch ab.
285. Anton, turn the duck around and fry the other side. German: Anton dreh die Ente um und brat die andere Seite auch.
286. I'm eating meatballs. Suddenly it knocks. I look, gape and wonder. Suddenly it (the door) opens. And who is standing there? It's me.
287. Boy, let down your blinds (shutters). German: Junge las deinen Rolladen herunter rollen.
288. A tin/pot of jam we have at home too. German: Ein Marmaladeneimerchen haben wir zuhause auch.
289. Franconia is where hares are called "Hosen" and trousers are called "Husen".
290. Don't ring that bell, that bell doesn't ring. Ring that bell, that bell rings!
291. If you see him, tell him. German: Wenn du ihn siehst, dann sagst du's ihm.
292. Let down the Shutters. German: Laß einmal das Rollo herunter.
293. Two women taking about a child: Is he/she allowed to do that? He/she is allowed to do that! That he/she is allowed to do that?! German: Zwei Frauen reden über ein Kind: - Darf es das? - Es darf das! - Das es das darf?!
294. All Hessians are criminals, all steal ashtrays. When they don't steal ashtrays, they are bad (dangerous) knife fighters.
295. Maamauerbaabambeler is a club in Seligenstadt in Hessen. It literally means "the people who sit on the river Main and let their legs dangle down the wall".
296. Children come in, here inside there are more children. German: Kinder kommt herein hier drinnen sind noch mehr Kinder da.
297. A small worm is sitting on a tower, with a small umbrella in his arm. A small storm comes up, throws the small worm with the small umbrella in his small arm from the small tower.
298. German: Sitzt ein Würmchen auf dem Türmchen mit einem Schirmchen unter dem Ärmchen, kommt ein Stürmchen und bläst das Würmchen mit dem Schirmchen unter dem Ärmchen vom Türmchen
299. Water your cactus, otherwise it will dry up!
300. I'll give you a blow on one of your eyes and on your other eye I'll also give you a blow.
301. Does this bag belong to you? German:Gehört diese Tüte da dir?
302. The sun is already shining nicely! And when the sun is shining nicely we don't work anymore. German: Die Sonne scheint schon schön! Und wenn die Sonne schon so schön scheint, arbeiten wir auch nichts mehr.
303. The best would be if you carry the most beautiful box and the slimmest shovel into the next barn as soon as you can. German: Am besten schleppst du das schönste Schächtelchen und die schlankeste Schaufel so schnell es geht in den nächsten Schuppen.
304. The little worm called Irmchen carrying a little umbrella below its little arm is standing on the top of a little tower. There appears a weak storm that blows away the little worm called Irmchen with the little umbrella below its little arm away from the little tower, that poor little worm called Irmchen. German: Das Würmchen Irmchen steht mit dem Schirmchen unter dem Ärmchen auf dem Türmchen. Da kommt ein Stürmchen und weht das Würmchen Irmchen mit dem Schirmchen unter dem Ärmchen von seinem Türmchen, das arme Würmchen Irmchen.
305. The slim and thirsty stork struts proudly and thirsty through the stork's nest. German: Stolz stolziert der schmächtige und durstige Storch mit Durst durch den Storchenhorst.
306. Two mothers taking about a child: That it is allowed to do that! It is allowed to do that! German: Zwei Frauen reden über ein Kind: - "Das es (er/sie) dies darf!" - "Es (er/sie) darf das."
307. What a weather! The wind is blowing the sand away through the door. What a weather! German:Was für ein Wetter! Der Wind weht den Sand vom Weg weg durch die Tür hindurch! Was für ein Wetter!
308. If we wash-women knew where to find warm water, we wash-women would wash white laundry. German: Wenn wir Waschweiber wüssten wo warmes Wasser wäre, würden wir Waschweiber weiße Wäsche waschen.
309. Grandma, let me play La Paloma again. German: Oma lass mich noch mal La Paloma laufen lassen.
310. Look over there, he is lying there. German: Sieh einmal dorthin, da liegt er doch.
311. Peartree (Birnbaum) is written with peartree "B" and poplar (Pappelbaum) is written with poplar "P". German: Birnbaum schreibt man mit Birnbaum "B" und Pappelbaum schreibt man mit Pappelbaum "P".
312. The emperor's Carl could not chew carraway seeds, but cakecrumbs he could chomp. German: Kaisers Karle konnte keine Kümmelkörner kauen, aber Kuchkrümmel konnte er zerdrücken.
313. Paint a small man. German: Mal (da) einmal ein Männchen hin.
314. strawberry jam German: Erdbeermarmelade
315. The knife and fork for Spätzle with smoked ham (a typical dish) were order to late.
316. I once knew one (woman), that had a child, which she had from someone, if she hadn't know him, she wouldn't have that child. German: Ich habe eine gekannt, die ein Kind hatte, das hatte sie von einem, wenn sie den nicht gekannt hätte, hätte sie auch das Kind nicht.
317. A small piece of bread that a little child called Fritzle (typical Swabian boy's name) has lost is lying in the yard. Then a small (in swabian everything is small) rooster comes and eats up the piece of bread.
318. I carried the machine down. German: Ich habe den Apparat hinunter getragen.
319. An ugly green painted garden door. German: Ein unschön grün angestrichenes Gartentürchen.
320. Do we have hammers? We don't have hammers any more! German: "Haben wir [noch] Hämmer?" "Nein, Hämmer haben wir keine mehr!
321. Behind Hans' haouse bei the hedge I heard one hundred this year's hares coughing. German: Hinter Hans' Haus bei der Hecke hab' ich hundert diesjährige Hasen husten hören!
322. What are they doing there in that wood?
323. I ordered the cutlery too late. German:Ich habe zu spät das Besteck bestellt.
324. Don't ring this bell, this bell doesn't ring. Ring this bell, this bell rings. German: Läuten Sie nicht an dieser Klingel, diese Klingel läutet nicht, läuten Sie an dieser Klingel, diese Klingel läutet.
325. I have also almost stopped it! German: Ich habe es auch schon fast gelassen.
326. A lump of lead lies near by Blaubeueren. Near by Blaubeueren lies a lump of lead.
327. Once I knew someone (a boy), who knew someone (a girl) who had had a child, which she had not had from him. Because he was no longer able. But she had known another (boy), who still had beens able! And if she had not had known him, she would not have had that child.
328. It was unpleasant, when my arm was broken. German: Es war unangenehm, als mein Arm gebrochen war.
329. German: Handy = Haben die da keine Schnur (Kabel) dran?
330. She says she's got hot flush and she says she's sweating a lot during the night. German>/EM>: Eine große Hitze, sagt sie, habe sie und in der Nacht so schwitzen müsse sie, sagt sie, würde sie.
331. If you like cider, you also will like me. German: Magst du Most, magst du mich auch.
332. Do think you like cider? You must like cider. German: Meinst du, du magst Most? Most mußt du mögen.
333. Do we have to add one egg? German: Muss man da ein Ei reintun?
334. Has anybody got a comb or a piece of soap? German: Hat keiner keinen Kamm oder ein Stück Seife?
335. Is it raining heavily in Zürich? German: Strätzen = heftig regnen. z'Züri = in (zu) Zürich. Also: Regnet's (stark) in Zürich?
336. Pulling a basket full of soap down a ladder in Schleitheim. German: In Schleitheim eine Zeine voll Seife die Leiter hinab schleifen.
337. Don't ring this bell, this bell won't ring. Ring this bell, this bell will ring. German: Du mußt nicht an dieser Glocke läuten, diese Glocke läutet nicht, du mußt an dieser Glocke läutet, diese Glocke läutet.
338. The Pope ordered the cutlery for smoked ham too late in Spiez. German: Der Papst bestellte in Spiez das Speckbesteck zu spät.
339. Lueschers doorbell only rings when Lueti rings Lueschers bell. German: Lüschers Hausglocke leutet wenn Lüti Lüschers Glocke leutet.
340. On the bridge of Rapperswil there are three thin, dry, long, empty, hollow tubes, and through these three thin, dry, long, empty, hollow tubes people lern to speak properly. German: Auf der Rapperswiler Brücke (am Züricher See) stehen drei dünne, dürre, lange, leere, hohle Röhrchen, und durch diese drei dünnen, dürren, langen, leeren, hohlen Röhren lernen die Leute richtig sprechen.
341. Two mothers taking about a child: Is she allowed to do that! She is allowed to do that! That she is allowed to do that ... German: Zwei Frauen reden über ein Kind: - "Darf sie das?" - "Sie darf das." - "Das sie dies darf!
342. kitchen cupboard, GermanKüchenkästchen
343. Cheese cake in the kitchen cupboard, GermanKäsekuchen im Küchenkasten
344. Milk bucket (made of wood), German: Milchkessel (aus Holz).
345. In Rheinfelden under the right bridge over the river Rhein a rough liver of a roe deer is lying.
346. Der Pope ordered the fork and knife in Spietz to late.
347. The cat hat vomited in the kitchen cupboard.
348. Don't ring this bell, this bell won't ring. Ring (on) this bell, this bell will ring.
349. Is there a lightning in the middle of Zurich? German: Blitzt es mitten in Zürich?
350. In Schwyz you presently have sunshine, and shoudn’t it shine in Schwyz for now, it will shine for some time at Brunnen. Schwyz is the capital of the Canton Schwyz. Brunnen is another Swiss town opposite to Schwyz, separated by the Rigi.
351. Three round raw tubes and three round raw deer livers teach people to talk the right way. German: Drei runde rohe Röhrchen und drei runde ruhe Rehleber lehren Leuten recht reden.
352. Butcher, slaughter me with the sharpened butcher knife the Mäxli (name of an animal, Swiss short form for Maximilian)!
353. In Chur to go to the cupboard to chew chewing gum. German: In Chur ins Küchenkästchen Kaugummi kauen gehen.
354. "Gadaladalälla" is the thing that keeps the shutters of the parents' bedroom open (Gada = parents' bedroom, Lada = shutter, Lälla = tongue)
355. The Pope ordered the bacom cutlery to late
356. Two smaller eggs in one row. German: Zwei kleinere Eier in einer Reihe.
357. When people from Chur (a town) saw, they say "say"; saying 'say', they "saw" "saw".
358. The Pope in Spiez (a town) has ordered the bacon cutlery to late. German: Der Papst hat in Spiez (Stadt am Thunersee) das Speckbesteck zu spät bestellt.
359. German: Hinter dem Münster hält ein Butterbrot-Mädchen Butterwecken feil. Hinter dem Münster hält ein Butterbrot-Mädchen feil. Butterbrot-Mädchen hält Butterwecken feil. Butterwecken-Mädchen hält Butterbrote feil. Hinter dem Münster hält ein Butterbrot-Mädchen feil Behind the Cathedral a sandwich-girl is offering brioche for sale. Behind the Cathedral a sandwich-girl is selling; Sandwich-girl is offering brioche; Brioche-girl is offering sandwiches; Behind the Cathedral a sandwich-girl is selling.
360. When he wants sour, then she wants sweet,
     When he wants flour, then she wants corn,
     when he says finch, then she says sparrow
     when he says dog, she says cat,
     he wants soup, she wants meat,
     he wants to stand, then she wants to sit,
     is he there, then is she here
     he shouts hu then she shouts ha!
361. That is bound to be a funny supper
     when our mother bakes cakes
     and the father jumps around
     and takes the cakes away from us
362. Tomorrow my butcher will have to butcher my skinny sow with my dull knife. German: Morgen muss mein Metzger mit meinem stumpfen Messer meine magere Sau schlachten.
363. The cheese cake pan in the small kitchen cupbard. German: Das Käsekuchenblech im Küchenkästchen.
364. Gustav is going into the Garden and watering the yellow Dahlias. German: Gustav geht in den Garten und gießt die gelben Dahlien.

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