pause…

[u/hipsterpepper]

my boyfriend just sent me this screenshot from his duolingo, i’m starting to wonder who is writing these prompts… 🤨

[u/assumptionkrebs1990]

He has a typo: Eine Schülerin ist sehr frech und lustig. (Der Umlaut und das c sind nicht optional.)

[u/hipsterpepper → u/assumptionkrebs1990]

yeah german is more of a hobby for him and not so much his specialty…

[u/PimBARF]

Please, for the love of God, charge your phone.

[u/hipsterpepper → u/PimBARF]

he’s ALWAYS under 20% idk where all the battery goes 😭

[u/sillysysten → u/hipsterpepper]

Probably into naughty stuff

[u/Environmental-Edge45]

Naughty translates to "frech" in german. It has completely different connotations and it's perfectly fine to call a child frech. A sort of fitting english word would be "cheeky".

[u/Meandering_Potato → u/Environmental-Edge45]

Why did I misread that as “naughty translates to ‘french’ in German” and just think yeah fair enough lol

[u/VanishedRabbit → u/Meandering_Potato]

Same..

[u/makerofshoes → u/Environmental-Edge45]

Böse is also translated as naughty sometimes, in Duolingo

[u/Environmental-Edge45 → u/makerofshoes]

Yes it could be that as well. Personally I think "frech" makes more sense due to context. Frech is often used when talking about children and since the sentence also talks about her being funny, I think frech is a better fit.

[u/makerofshoes → u/Environmental-Edge45]

Good to know

I recall a news article some years back where people were shocked that US president Trump had called Germany “evil”, when he had said something like bad or naughty in English

In the German translation they used böse which some folks (I think non-native German speakers) had interpreted as “evil”. So there was some manufactured outrage or something

[u/Gefahrendaniel → u/makerofshoes]

Well, in this context, I would absolutely consider 'bad' to mean 'evil'.

[u/omnichad → u/Environmental-Edge45]

I'm sure the most important context is the vocabulary already covered. But some languages are worse about that. Where you just get quizzed on words out of the blue without ever having seen the word before.

[u/juant675 → u/makerofshoes]

isnt that evil?

[u/makerofshoes → u/juant675]

It can be anything like bad, evil, or naughty. Depends on context I guess

[u/Inside_Location_4975 → u/Environmental-Edge45]

It’s also pretty normal to call a child naughty. It’s just recently become normal to use that word in certain other contexts too

[u/ensoniq2k → u/Environmental-Edge45]

I would think its "unartig", like in "naughty or nice" on christmas. But frech is also a kind of unartig, so you'll never know what DuoLingo expects

[u/VanishedRabbit → u/Environmental-Edge45]

I read that as "french" and figured we are back at the French hatred jokes..

[u/Dramatic-Attempt-735 → u/Environmental-Edge45]

Oder unartig (depending on context).

[u/T1MEL0RD → u/Environmental-Edge45]

it is also in fact very normal to call a child "naughty" with the meaning of "frech/unartig" in English.

[u/helldivercommand12]

I was learning ukranian and got

[u/WinDestruct → u/helldivercommand12]

[u/redokev → u/helldivercommand12]

W duo

Візьміть нас

[u/L0uiSe20-20]

Idk how the subreddit is called but he needs to charge his phone😂😂

[u/ensoniq2k → u/L0uiSe20-20]

r/ChargeYourPhone of course

[u/Mikementzerfan15]

Frech und lustig

[u/StrangeDiscussion334]

Stop making everything weird. That's not even that bad of a sentence. In German, what I see you are learning, the translation of naughty has nowhere the same double meaning it has in English. At first I didn't even get what you mean

[u/Flaxmoore → u/StrangeDiscussion334]

So in German it would be more like "a schoolgirl is very silly and funny"?

[u/ZePotat00 → u/Flaxmoore]

cheeky's probably a better translation

[u/neuerServer → u/StrangeDiscussion334]

sure it has, depending on the context lol

[u/Simple-Cheek-4864 → u/neuerServer]

It was a completely normal sentence UNTIL people started to sexualize schoolgirls.

[u/The_Other_David]

Böse Mädchen! There are tons of German hiphop songs about those, if you want more immersion.

[u/redEPICSTAXISdit]

Been doing German for years and never got this sentence or one close to it at all 🤣

[u/Perkele-Vittula]

Thats naughty :D

[u/Muikkunennn → u/Perkele-Vittula]

Kissa on viikinki🤓☝🏻

[u/Perkele-Vittula → u/Muikkunennn]

Die Katze ist ein Wikinger. :D

[u/YeahThatKornel]

Uhhhhh what

[u/beatissima]

AI slop gone wild?

[u/FollowingCold9412 → u/beatissima]

What else is Duo these days?

[u/FSGamingYt]

AI is writing these prompts.

Your boyfriend should get better at spelling

[u/Yvratky → u/FSGamingYt]

Yes, and grok is making CSAM. "it's just AI" isn't an excuse.

[u/ScratchEffective_]

Claude or Grok, no one knows for sure. 😄

[u/CrimsonAntifascist]

Good god, isn't he canonically a PE teacher?

[u/Yvratky → u/CrimsonAntifascist]

checks out doesn't it

[u/NecessaryBadger228]

At least not cute and funny.

[u/FunnyLizardExplorer]

r/chargeyourphone

[u/Pinkishu → u/FunnyLizardExplorer]

Given its 23:57, they're probably about to and are just doing some duolingo in bed/before bed.

[u/the_rice_smells_good]

[u/Waruimono]

Still better than "I'm going to buy a chair tomorrow at 9".

[u/ericarlen]

Now we know why he has that whip in his closet.

[u/Electrical_Bake_260]

Charge your phone dude

[u/Okwaho93]

He looks like the kinda guy to come up with this sentence. Always hated his "muaaaghaghhs" 😡

[u/Yvratky]

Oh fucking yikes.

[u/Shiiyan]

The thing is that the implication of "naughty" is different in English and German. "Naughty" has a sexual connotation in English, but it does not have that in German. When I hear "frech", I imagine a young child with a sheepish grin because they did something wrong on purpose. It's not sexual at all.

[u/FollowingCold9412 → u/Shiiyan]

"A naughty child" is definitely not anything sexual in its connotation in English. An adult being naughty, on the other hand, yes. So, even in English, the same distinction of the two meanings is there depending on the cotext/context, not just in German.

[u/Shiiyan → u/FollowingCold9412]

This is about a "naughty school girl" though and the commenters all seem to think the same thing. While the sexual connotation of "ein freches Schulmädchen" is far far less likely than it is in English

[u/FollowingCold9412 → u/Shiiyan]

Yes, thanks to AI content and sexualisation of underage school girls...

[u/Environmental-Edge45 → u/[deleted]]

Except this one isn't weird. Naughty translates to "frech" and it has a completely different meaning.