Friday, January 12, 2024

Home is where der Herd is

Our stove broke, and I had to call the manufacturer to come fix it. Step 1: learn how to say "my stove" (I already knew the "ist kaput" part).
It's "mein Herd."

Which is easy to remember not because of the word for a bunch of cows, but because German Ds are often THs in English, and we have the word "hearth."

In English it's archaic because we don't put fireplaces in the middle of our houses to both heat and cook with anymore, but German retains it in common usage.

It's like a thousand year-old word but it's just as useful today as it was then.

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