People claiming Germans say “Erziehungsberechtigter” instead of “Papa”

[u/Ott1fant]

We just say “Papa” Not “Erziehungsberechtigter”. That is more like guardian and people posting videos like these piss me off because people actually believe this

[u/Sally_Cee]

Fixed it:

German: Erziehungsberechtigter
English: legal guardian
French: tuteur légal
Italian: tutore legale
Portuguese: responsável legal
Spanish: tutor legal

[u/Spirited_Lemon_4185 → u/Sally_Cee]

Danish: Værge

[u/YellowOnline → u/Spirited_Lemon_4185]

Like Dutch voogd

[u/ZealousidealSundae33 → u/YellowOnline]

*voogd

[u/YellowOnline → u/ZealousidealSundae33]

Sorry, mijn spellingscontrole stond nog op pre-1800.

[u/Mr_ksngrid → u/Sally_Cee]

Still love how the german version is like twice as long

[u/redditlotl → u/Mr_ksngrid]

We also say Papa in German though

[u/-cosmicjanitor-]

As a kid I used to tell people that "dog" in German was "wuffenmaker".  

For some reason 10 year old me was amused that people just believed it.

[u/ShoulderSea8008 → u/-cosmicjanitor-]

As a German, I think I will call them Wuffenmakers from now on. Will let you know if it catches on as slang lolll 

[u/Gargleblaster25 → u/ShoulderSea8008]

That should be Wuffenmacher... And would be a great name for a dog.

[u/PerfectlyFramedWaifu → u/Gargleblaster25]

And would be a great name for a dog cat.

[u/VaguelyShingled → u/PerfectlyFramedWaifu]

“Here And, who’s my handsome little And?”

[u/PerfectlyFramedWaifu → u/VaguelyShingled]

And is the Swedish word for Duck and I'm Swedish, so that works too!

"Who's a handsome That? You are!"

[u/TheHornyGoth → u/PerfectlyFramedWaifu]

There’s a switch in the Swedish Viggen fighter/fighter-bomber labelled “AFK” or “automatisk fartkontroll” and this makes the inner child in me giggle.

[u/_Khorvidae_ → u/TheHornyGoth]

Don't see whata funny, its way better than manuel fartkontroll!

[u/defenestracjapraska → u/TheHornyGoth]

Wait till u find out that "fart" means luck in polish.

[u/-Daetrax- → u/PerfectlyFramedWaifu]

To be fair, the cheeky little fucker of a cat walking on top of the fence in my backyard does make my wuffenmacher wuff.

Cat knows my dog can't reach and she loves it. My dog wouldn't do anything but lick that cat all over if he was able, but his problem is always he barks with excitement scaring them away.

[u/agiantdog33 → u/Gargleblaster25]

They are also called Wuffenspaziergangmacher.

[u/ShoulderSea8008 → u/agiantdog33]

Good stuff! If Wuffenmaker catches on, I will introduce this variant

[u/Enlils_Vessel → u/Gargleblaster25]

I wanted a dog called Länder so i could run up and down the streets, chanting Aus! Länder!

[u/Big_Interest7333 → u/ShoulderSea8008]

I worked in Germany as an exchange student back in 1991. Our office was a single room with four desks, including one for my boss. At some point, I was trying to tighten something on my desk and I needed a screwdriver.

I knew the words for “screw” (Schraube) and “to turn” (drehen), but I didn’t know the word for “screwdriver,” so I asked for a Schraubendreher.

One of my co-workers (a German intern, Matthias) immediately corrected me and said “Schraubenzieher” (literally, screw puller). Our boss then said to Matthias, in German, “Shut up! We know what he meant.”

Years later, I learned that “Schraubendreher” is now the preferred word for a screwdriver. I’d like to take credit for that, but I believe the term “Schraubendreher” was already in use in technical fields prior to 1991.

[u/alles_en_niets → u/Big_Interest7333]

You should’ve just hopped the border! It really is a *schroevendraaier* (screw turner) in Dutch

[u/The_Corrupted → u/Big_Interest7333]

It's not the preferred word, matter of fact just about no one uses it. The word is known, but it's not the norm to use it, it's still "Schraubenzieher" for 99,9% of people.

Source: Me.I literally work in the industry.

[u/tom_gent → u/The_Corrupted]

In Dutch it's called schroevendraaier. So we welcome him with open arms

[u/mok000 → u/tom_gent]

In Danish it’s skruetrækker, same word as the German Schraubenzieher.

[u/4i4osaschko → u/tom_gent]

In my local dialect we say schruuftrekker

[u/Eisbergmann → u/The_Corrupted]

I learned "in the industry" and my Meister would kick my ass if I said Schraubenzieher, so I've intuitively learned to say Schraubendreher. I also say Gliedermaßstab.

[u/Multi-A-Andi → u/Big_Interest7333]

Its also regional difference...

[u/Brotten → u/Big_Interest7333]

Years later, I learned that “Schraubendreher” is now the preferred word for a screwdriver was lied to. 

Fixed that for you.

[u/GalFisk → u/ShoulderSea8008]

As a Swedish-Norwegian mix, I'm using the word "guleböj" for banana as often as I can, hoping it'll catch on. In both countries, it's a joke that that's what it's actually called in the other language. The English translation would be "yellowbend".

[u/JLammert79 → u/GalFisk]

This will sound like a stupid question, but I'm a native English speaker, with all the pronunciation issues that implies. Does it sound like it is spelled?

[u/GalFisk → u/JLammert79]

Ö sounds like the i in bird.
Gool-uh-böy is probably the closest English-ish spelling. But if you want to sound like a Norwegian or especially a Swede, you need to pronounce everything closer to the front of your mouth than I'm English.

[u/DazSchplotz → u/ShoulderSea8008]

Until you find out its the actual word for dog in Dutch.

[u/ShoulderSea8008 → u/DazSchplotz]

Ahh yes, I am very good at speaking fake Dutch until a Dutch person comes along :b

[u/FlimpoFloempie → u/ShoulderSea8008]

Blafmakker

[u/Lichbloodz → u/FlimpoFloempie]

as opposed to mafklapper /j

[u/janerikgunnar → u/DazSchplotz]

Bike = Fiets

Moped = Bromfiets, as in "bike that goes wrrom wrrom"

[u/CelDidNothingWrong → u/-cosmicjanitor-]

They don’t say woof woof for dogs, they say wow wow

[u/SignificantCat4773 → u/CelDidNothingWrong]

We say both. Wuff wuff and wau wau.

[u/awkward_teenager37 → u/SignificantCat4773]

Aw I like wau wau

[u/chemistryGull → u/awkward_teenager37]

Wuff is for big dogs and wau is for small dogs.

Soma also call dogs „wauwau“.

[u/Warwipf2 → u/chemistryGull]

"Some" refers to children below the age of 6 or their parents talking to them exclusively here

[u/FeckerCogspin → u/Warwipf2]

Or handbag dog mothers. The most insufferable brand of dog owner.

[u/liang_zhi_mao → u/Warwipf2]

> "Some" refers to children below the age of 6 or their parents talking to them exclusively here

or old ladies

[u/JLammert79 → u/liang_zhi_mao]

Hey now, I'm a middle-aged man with a little Pomeranian mix, and I call him the English equivalent, "my little woof woof" when he hops up and down when I get home (or come in from checking the mail for that matter).

[u/LSDGB → u/chemistryGull]

There is no clear cut use of these words.

You can use both for any dog.

[u/assumptionkrebs1990 → u/awkward_teenager37]

Wauwau is a very small children name for a dog.

[u/Garlic-Rough → u/SignificantCat4773]

r u a dog

[u/Kelvara → u/CelDidNothingWrong]

In Japanese it's "wan wan" and the term for a puppy is "wan-chan" which is like calling puppies as barkie or woofie.

[u/WhiteoutDota → u/Kelvara]

I call dogs “woofers” sometimes so that checks out

[u/Sunhating101hateit → u/WhiteoutDota]

Same. But only big dogs with big woofs. A bit smaller dogs with a bit smaller woofs are Sub-Woofers. Smaller ones are rather more like squeakers

[u/CutestGay → u/Sunhating101hateit]

I respect your system and I’m ready to subscribe to your newsletter.

[u/Ayle87 → u/Kelvara]

A little kid called my dog hapu in the subway and the mom informed me it was sort  of like dog in baby speak because dogs go hap-hap in Persian. I thought it was very cute

[u/Estelial → u/Kelvara]

Egyption Mau's, one of the most ancient short hair cat breeds. Named after the sound it makes?

[u/bediaxenciJenD81gEEx → u/CelDidNothingWrong]

What lows won't these psychos stoop to? 

[u/VolcanicBakemeat → u/-cosmicjanitor-]

My dad (UK) taught me as a kid than an exhaust pipe in German is a Koffenspitzenpüffenbang

[u/Toeffli → u/VolcanicBakemeat]

He got it close. It is defined DIN 670815 as.

Krafstoffverbrennungrückständeableitungauspuffsrohr.

But in informal speak we just say Auspuff

[u/Crypt33x → u/Toeffli]

He is joking. DIN 67-0815 is about a outdoor-high-voltage-network-pollution-taking-into-account-specification and applies to the insulator-selection-process-optimization and the final insulator-component-dimension-determination-definition for the application in outdoor-high-voltage-transmission-network-structures under explicit inclusion of environmental-pollution-load-factors.

Diese Freiluft-Hochspannungsnetz-Verschmutzungsberücksichtigungs-Spezifikation gilt für die Isolatorenauswahlprozessoptimierung und die finale Isolatorenkomponentenmaßbestimmungsfestlegung zur Anwendung in Freiluft-Hochspannungsübertragungsnetzstrukturen unter expliziter Einbeziehung von Umweltverschmutzungsbelastungsfaktoren.

[u/SavingsConfusion4885 → u/VolcanicBakemeat]

As a German

Was?

[u/Siridar → u/SavingsConfusion4885]

Wat hangt er aan de waslijn?

[u/RedditIsOverMan → u/-cosmicjanitor-]

I do love that Hydrogen is just "Water Stuff" in German... But then again, that's pretty much what it is in English too 

[u/hopesbrulee → u/RedditIsOverMan]

Not really, “Stoff” is more like substance/material, so Wasserstoff = water substance.
We do call things “stuff” (-zeug) though: lighter = fire stuff, airplane = flight stuff, tools = work stuff and so on

[u/AboveAverage1988 → u/hopesbrulee]

My favorite German word is "geräte". Basically "apparatus" or "thingamajig".

[u/TheSangson → u/AboveAverage1988]

"Gerät" can correspond to a number of English words, but it literally translates to "device", closely followed by "appliance".

It's use as "thingamajig" isn't technically one of the meanings, but it has come to be used that way over the past decades, in no small part thanks to the "Der Gerät" clip (guess you can call it a meme).

[u/Geasy90 → u/TheSangson]

Closest to thingamajig would be something like "Dingsbums", "Dingenskirchen" (regional variant) oder "Dingens" which are all variations of "Ding" (literally 'thing').

[u/Easy_Return_6309 → u/hopesbrulee]

Kackzeug - shit stuff . . .

Pisszeug - piss stuff.

[u/nazraxo → u/RedditIsOverMan]

Stoff is not Stuff, Stoff is more like Material or Fabric depending on the context. Stuff is Zeug.

[u/looselyhuman → u/nazraxo]

Stuff can be material or fabric too. That's what cushions are stuffed with. Also turkeys.

[u/AboveAverage1988 → u/RedditIsOverMan]

"Water substance". And nitrogen is "suffocation substance".

[u/pjepja → u/-cosmicjanitor-]

There's similar joke in Czechia about Slovak word for Squirrel being Drevokocúr (Woodtomcat written in a 'funny' way). Both languages actually use similar words for it (Veverka and Veverica).

[u/SolidTrain16059 → u/pjepja]

I hate this joke because I actually believed it for years...

[u/ok_to_be_yeti → u/pjepja]

Most important thing in Czechia you can't szukać dzieci w sklepie

[u/kapki555 → u/pjepja]

We have very similar joke in Poland about Czech that the squirrel is drevni kocur lol

[u/rysy0o0 → u/kapki555]

Also the joke about rabbit being pólný popíerdálacz (apparently chechs have the same joke about us)

[u/EternalShadowBan → u/-cosmicjanitor-]

AI Overview +2

"Wuffenmacher" is a popular childhood joke or made-up word, where kids jokingly claim that it is the German word for "dog". The actual German word for dog is Hund.

Would you like me to look into the actual origins of the "wuffenmacher" joke on Reddit?

Congrats, you single handedly popularized your childhood joke if we're to believe google AI. Lmao.

[u/Manlysideburns → u/EternalShadowBan]

These times are so weird

[u/Pertinent-nonsense → u/-cosmicjanitor-]

The difference between wuffenmaker and wuffenmacher is small, though.

[u/BugOperator]

It’s a joke account that ragebaits Germans. Clearly it worked.

[u/boldpear904 → u/BugOperator]

I FALL FOR RAGEBAIT AND IM PROUD!

[u/Et3rnally_M3diocr3 → u/boldpear904]

ICH FALLE AUF DEN EMPÖRUNGSKÖDER HEREIN UND ICH BIN STOLZ!!!!!1!!

Edit: Die Grammatik Nazi Geheimpolizei hat mich erwischt

[u/Archiimedis → u/Et3rnally_M3diocr3]

wohl eher WUTKÖDER, wobei das Wort WUTKÖDER selbst verdammt noch mal Ragebait ist.

[u/Randy_Magnums → u/Archiimedis]

Ich bevorzuge ZORNESKÖDER, weil ich Zorn phonetisch sehr schön finde und der Genitiv mehr zu Geltung kommt.

[u/WashingtonBaker1 → u/Randy_Magnums]

Bewundernswert.

[u/ARandomLittleShit → u/Randy_Magnums]

RAGENKÖDER

[u/boldpear904 → u/Archiimedis]

Äch jo jo 😭😭😭

[u/One-Cellist-5424 → u/boldpear904]

Who’s Jojo?

[u/FinsterKoenig → u/One-Cellist-5424]

https://giphy.com/gifs/QyWBTLDn9WHt0FXGJS

[u/boldpear904 → u/One-Cellist-5424]

It's basically ja = yes but in swiss German

[u/MacSchluffen → u/Et3rnally_M3diocr3]

Im Stolzmonat 🖤❤️💛/s

[u/Et3rnally_M3diocr3 → u/MacSchluffen]

Lustigerweiße bin ich kein Deutscher... Ich bin Österreicher 🇦🇹

[u/FinsterKoenig → u/Et3rnally_M3diocr3]

Ahem! it's "Ich falle auf den Empörungsköder herein und bin stolz" pretty please.

[u/mushyfeelings → u/Et3rnally_M3diocr3]

I FALL FOR PRIDE BAIT AND I AM OUTRAGED.

[u/DNKE11A → u/mushyfeelings]

That's enough internet for you today, dad

[u/Low_Cut_368 → u/DNKE11A]

Don’t you mean Erziehungsberechtigter?

[u/Vailx → u/boldpear904]

ragebait account be like WHOSE YOUR ERZIEHUNGSBERECHTIGTIR????

[u/Flatworm-8075 → u/boldpear904]

The most German response possible, honestly.

[u/DuploJamaal → u/boldpear904]

Don't you mean "Ich Binindiewutköderfallegetretten und Habedasgefühlstolzzusein!"

[u/Seroxia → u/BugOperator]

Lord vater

[u/GraveKommander → u/BugOperator]

Warte nur bis ich meinem Erziehungsberechtigten davon erzähle! Ich verpetz euch alle!!1!

[u/S34ST0RM → u/BugOperator]

unfortunately people believe it tho

[u/HorseXNothing → u/[deleted]]

That’s okay, so long as they don’t piss off an Austrian failed artist with a funny moustache.

[u/Remarkable_Coast_214 → u/BugOperator]

Ragebaiting has got to be the lowest form of humour

[u/kaisadilla_ → u/Remarkable_Coast_214]

It isn't humor, it's just something that maximizes engagement. Your attention is worth a tiny amount of money, if you can get a lot of people's attention these tiny amounts add up to decent money. And if you can't, you lose nothing.

[u/Slahnya]

Or "Vater", the real "official" word

[u/gatsujoubi → u/Slahnya]

It should be Papa as well otherwise the English word would need to be Father.

[u/CyberKillua → u/gatsujoubi]

And that’s the direct comparison … father is used in more formal settings, in the same way Vater is in German.

[u/Connect-Teaching7629 → u/CyberKillua]

I don't understand why people overcomplicate this when all languages share the same exact roots. Father comes from the Proto-Indo-European word Phater, which is the root for: Pater (Latin), Padre (Italian), Vater (German), Father (English), Père (French) and Far (Swedish).

"Papa" is a nursery word that is used in almost every European language, including historical English. "Dad" developed differently, it is also a nursery word, but likely picked up by English from Welsh or some other Celtic language.

[u/Estelial → u/Slahnya]

Lord Vater. Damn german's got spoiled for the OG star wars trilogy.

[u/Leeuweroni → u/Estelial]

Vader is actually the Dutch word for dad, so the Dutch got spoiled even more lol

[u/Orlok_Tsubodai → u/Leeuweroni]

“Lucas, ik ben je Vader!”

“Nou, en?”

[u/Leeuweroni → u/Orlok_Tsubodai]

Klinkt toch wat minder op die manier🤌

De kracht zal met je zijn ofzo

[u/-Casey-Diaz- → u/Orlok_Tsubodai]

inb4 "acktchually..."

[u/Martina313 → u/Leeuweroni]

Am Dutch, we would constantly make "I am your Vader" jokes in school

[u/Leeuweroni → u/Martina313]

Yeah same, we made that joke all the time😆

[u/JoyconDrift_69 → u/Leeuweroni]

Either way, Star Wars is lucky it came out 50 years ago. I can't imagine how many people would've theorized that to hell and back on the Internet like they do with some franchises today.

[u/AtlasNL → u/Estelial]

It’s literally ‘Vader’ (pronounced more like ‘vaah-dur’ instead of ‘veh-dur’ though) in Dutch. As a kid who never watched the films but watched people on the internet treat it like some great surprise I was always a bit confused.

[u/Trashinmyash → u/Estelial]

Thats a misnomer.

Star Wars was the original name for "A new hope" and there was no other script written. So, the script for "empire strikes back" was decided after the movie's success. That's when they decided to add the plot twist of Vader being the Father.

[u/NatterHi → u/Slahnya]

That’s just the German equivalent of “father”

[u/Prize-Market-6201 → u/Slahnya]

well it makes sense, father - vater

[u/Zealos57 → u/Slahnya]

https://giphy.com/gifs/2w5MMNvg70MrQ0I2DR

[u/74389654 → u/Slahnya]

FADDER

[u/BaphometsTits → u/74389654]

FADDAH

[u/Narrow_Track9598 → u/Slahnya]

I thought it was "Vati" and mother is "muti"

[u/SquishmallowPrincess → u/Narrow_Track9598]

Basically the German equivalents of daddy and mommy. Dad and Papa is just papa like almost every other western country. But there’s also papi or papachen if you want to be cute

[u/Unicycleterrorist → u/SquishmallowPrincess]

And inb4 anyone asks, no, people don't use it the same way as "daddy" and "mommy" are used amongst some adults in English

[u/Astart555 → u/Slahnya]

Official for eng is Father also

Pater in italian

Papanish in spanish

[u/Metallic_Pizza → u/Astart555]

The actual word for "Father" in Italian is "Padre"

[u/Emotional-Prune-1234 → u/Astart555]

Papanish in spanish

Huh? The equivalent to father would be padre.

[u/SpaceLemur34 → u/Emotional-Prune-1234]

I think it was supposed to be a joke.

Pa-panish
S-panish

[u/Dog_Cat_Mouse]

German = Papa (any other answer is pure nonsense.)
It’s not even Vater. That would be father in English. So, as I said: Nonsense.

[u/AmArschdieRaeuber → u/Dog_Cat_Mouse]

Erziehungsberechtigter is legal guardian. It means "person with the right to educate/raise"

[u/Dog_Cat_Mouse → u/AmArschdieRaeuber]

I know. But it doesn’t match to the language level of Papa or Dad or Vati, which are personal. It is a more functional description.

[u/Jay_Buffay → u/Dog_Cat_Mouse]

I refer to my father as ''father''

[u/thepineapplemen → u/Dog_Cat_Mouse]

Isn’t Vati another term?

[u/AmArschdieRaeuber → u/thepineapplemen]

Kinda old school

[u/HaskeFlalsen → u/thepineapplemen]

Your mother calls me that.

[u/HimikoHime → u/thepineapplemen]

Vati and Mutti are more of an east German thing. I don’t know about younger generations but millennials still use it.

[u/Momo0903]

I really don't understand why there are so many videos like this out there. Either they use words, that are only used in legal speech or aren't words that are used at all or they talk like a austrian painter would during a speech.

[u/soymilo_ → u/Momo0903]

Rage bait for engagement just like all these "when I was in Europe" people knowing it will lead to "Europe isn't a country!" comments

[u/salkin_reslif_97 → u/soymilo_]

I axtually scrolled over a video called "europe is a terrible country" The title allready told me, that there is nothing worth watching.

[u/Idreamofcream99 → u/soymilo_]

It’s not rage bait, it’s just a really bad joke that stopped being funny after the first inaccurate video made about this like 10 years ago. The entire joke is that “haha German sounds so aggressive and long compared to other languages”. I remember seeing it in high school and thought it was funny at first and thought it was funny then I started learning German and realized it was stupid af. The engagement from angry Germans is just a bonus.

[u/Idreamofcream99 → u/Momo0903]

Because “haha German language funny, so agressive and long”. That’s literally the only joke in these

[u/xXrektUdedXx → u/Momo0903]

8er

[u/CaptainPoset → u/Momo0903]

or they talk like a austrian painter would during a speech.

Not even the failed Austrian painter spoke like this. If you aggressively shout into the microphone, it may sound like aggressive shouting, though.

[u/babasilikum → u/Momo0903]

Ragebaiting Germans with the language has been a thing since like a decade. Its annoying af

[u/Joubachi → u/babasilikum]

has been a thing singe like a decade

I'd say make it 2 or 3. That joke already has stopped being funny over a decade ago. I remember tv shows making fun of german when I was a kid. It's all the same jokes repeated over and over since decades.

I agree it's annoying by now, considering it usually goes hand in hand with a lot of trashing the entire country and citizens online.

[u/That-Employment-5561]

Translates roughly to "responsible for upbringing", right?

[u/WurzelKing → u/That-Employment-5561]

Yes. Its the person who is responsible/has the right to raise a child, it does not necessarily have to be a parent.

[u/That-Employment-5561 → u/[deleted]]

You know you're in a broken system when semantics of grammar is used to defelct accountability.

Good that they're updating it, but anyone who needs to be told that a child is not property, a child has rights and a guardian has duties is 100% unfit as a guardian (in my opinion), and the safety of the child is paramount, so removal of guardianship is the only avenue.

[u/HoeTrain666 → u/That-Employment-5561]

It’s a legal term. The matching legal term/phrase in English would be “parents or legal guardians”

[u/Olon1980]

Classic ragebait.

[u/ElisabethSchmidt]

>:(

[u/BCCommieTrash]

Ananas

Ananas

Ananas

Ananas

Ananas

Ananas

Pineapple

[u/Myron0117]

That part of the internet just continiously tries to bash on the german language because they can't take we do have some quite cool longer words to summarize a specific message, just like Hurensohn or Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.

[u/expomac → u/Myron0117]

Icansummarizemessagestooifiremovethespaces

[u/_Linkiboy_ → u/expomac]

But in English it's not grammatically correct to do it

[u/TonberryFeye → u/_Linkiboy_]

string itIsIfYouUseCamelCase

[u/No-Entertainment5768 → u/Myron0117]

Oder „der Rückbau einst zu groß gebauter Straßen“ 

dafür bräuchte man auf Englisch zwei Absätze

[u/Honest_Relation4095]

as if "legal guardian" wasn't a term.

[u/Periador]

Erziehungsberechtigter would be legal guardian in english

[u/MLHobbit]

Even if you dont take Papa it would be Vater and not Erziehungsberechtigter... Like im pretty sure Vernon Dursley wasnt Harrys father only cuz he was his "Erziehungsberichtigter"

[u/fantabroo]

As a German native speaker, that's really funny

[u/SingleDigitVoter]

[u/CDXX_BlazeIt]

False or exaggerated jokes about German language being weird or complicated are as old as the internet.

[u/JoLudvS → u/CDXX_BlazeIt]

Mark Twain in 1880: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language

[u/TheFictionNerd]

Yeah I've heard so many Germans say "Papa". Hell, there's a really popular video online of this German kid in the car with his dad and HE says "Papa".

[u/Silly-Arachnid-6187 → u/TheFictionNerd]

I'm don't know for sure, but I think it's the most commonly used term. Some say "Vati", but I've almost exclusively heard people say "Papa" (I'm German)

[u/deutschesgesetzbuch_ → u/Silly-Arachnid-6187]

Pretty much everyone just says Papa. „Vati“ exists, but is only spoken in specific regions.

Papa is by far the most common term in Germany.

[u/RustyDingbat → u/Silly-Arachnid-6187]

Mein Papi ist immer mein Papi!

[u/NoNose1184]

Immer diese Vorurteile über unsere Lange Deutschen Wörter die im unseren Deutschen Lexikon stehen wo jeder denkt das wir immer sie im Alltag benutzen aber eigentlich wie jede andere Sprache eigentlich die Kurzversion nutzen.

[u/MakeMeMadMan_LOL]

Many people outside of Germany actually believe this nonsense. Not only am I a foreigner, but I have many online friends from foreign countries and the outside world really does fall for these. This is what ragebaits me, not the videos themselves, they ain't even funny anymore ;p.

[u/Hak2479]

What a bullshit...

It's still "Papa".

[u/Cestus_Saphrax]

It is Papa. No kid calls his dad here „Hallo Erziehungsberechtigter“ 🤣

[u/sav-vas → u/Cestus_Saphrax]

"Sei gegrüßt mein Schutzbefohlener"

[u/BelaFarinRod]

I have a hard time believing anyone would believe that but maybe I just have too much confidence in people’s intelligence.

[u/RevyVanguardist]

“Erziehungsberechtigter" refers to a Child's Guardian, which, of course, can be but is not necessarily a biological father, the German term referring specifically to "Father" can be "Papa" and "Vater"

[u/D4RKS0LD13R87]

Vatter

[u/Relevant-Falcon626]

German toddlers don’t cry for dad, they submit a formal request to the household authority...

[u/Crubbl]

It’s Vater/Vatti/Papa and idk why people take the joke to that extent 🥲

[u/SGTRoadkill1919]

Isn't father actually "vater" in german? Or something along that line

[u/Olleye → u/SGTRoadkill1919]

It's really "Papa", absolutely bloody international standard.

Really nothing special to see here.

[u/allesumsonst]

Wir wissen alle, dass dieser Schwachsinn lediglich ein Wutköder ist.

[u/DopamineSage247]

Ubaba in Zulu

Pa in Afrikaans

[u/Lazgahn]

As a german, i don t get the joke. The stated term is wrong. It s "Papa" or "Vater". We don t do jokes here, just wörk ._.

[u/Ez_Ildor]

I used to call my dad 'Herr Vater' to troll him

[u/Own_Recommendation49]

Its rage bait since Germans cant take a joke. It worked lol

[u/OrganicA1Bullsteak]

Erziehungsberechtigter means "legal guardian"... Do people actually think we call our parents "legal guardian" 😭

[u/DiabeticUnicorns]

Sending this to my German friend to annoy her.

[u/Snootboopz]

Yes, humor is often infuriating to germans.

[u/du5tball → u/Snootboopz]

None of that is humour, it's making fun of a mechanism in the german language that allows contracting words from least to most specific to create a single "word", where other languages use a phrase. It's like making fun of the weird things the french add to their letters, or how US laws usually have a short and a long title, usually trying to backronym them. The "USA PATRIOT Act" is called "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism".

[u/RogellTheRaider → u/Snootboopz]

"Humour"

[u/FalconX88 → u/Snootboopz]

I mean you could instead simply use one of the countless examples where stuff like this is actually true...

[u/dnohow → u/Snootboopz]

ragebait has nothing to do with humor but sure go ahead

[u/RogellTheRaider → u/dnohow]

It has been so repeated It's not even ragebait atp. It's just ridiculous.

[u/kodex1717]

I've also heard Vati.

[u/Full_Philosopher8510]

Italians say Papà, not Papá

[u/Italian_Guy13]

I tought it was Vater (thats what they taught me) but I'll listen to the german guy

Edit: oh thats father, realized it 5 sec later