Close Menu
    Germania

    Giovani tedeschi, li usi davvero?

    Share.
    View 24 Comments

    24 commenti

    1. Accomplished_Tip3597 on

      it’s so accurate that 99% of germans hear these words the first time when the Jugendwort gets announced and Susanne Daubner is reading it in the tagesschau.

    2. uselessDM on

      I’m old af and I’ver heard of these, so they are relatively common I would say. Probably out of style if I know of them by now though.

    3. daz5o on

      “Checkst du” and “das crazy” are phrases many people use. I would say most others are just English words like lowkey and literally..

    4. RedditBannedMe_1851 on

      “Hartzen”, “I bims”, “Aura” and “goonen” I actually heard before they were by Daubner

    5. marten_EU_BR on

      Gammelfleischparty, Smombie, – Never

      hartzen, I bims – Some for a short period of time, but not anymore.

      Goofy, Smash, Aura etc. – Yes, I think these words are relevant to internet culture, but please note that there is not one “youth internet culture” in Germany. For example, some TikTok users probably use these words quite often, while some Reddit users claim they’ve never heard of them.

    6. Shaneypants on

      Checken is used all the time

      Edit: which is a bit unfortunate as it sounds like it should mean “to check”, but it doesn’t, meaning this introduced yet another false-friend pseudo-anglicism into German

    7. ihatethecolourred on

      > Auffällig ist der zunehmende Einfluss arabischer Wörter, was auf die kulturelle Vielfalt und Integration in Deutschland hinweist.

      goofy, smash, goonen, aura, das crazy… okay

    8. shadraig on

      Wer kam denn auf die Idee, edging einen neuen Namen zu geben?

    9. trullaDE on

      Some are actually quite ok, some are a bit weird, some are pretty absurd, some are just rehashed phrases from 10+ years ago, making a comeback. A lot of the times, it’s basically just internet slang.

    11. RomanesEuntDomusX on

      The whole Jugendwort thing is a bit of a meme in itself because in the past some of these were way out of touch and basically boiled down to what old people think young people sound like. It feels like the selections have gotten better in recent years though.

    12. BlckDrke on

      The words starting from 22 are ones that got actually used before they got chosen as contender (or winner) of jugendwort.

      “I bims” was part of a meme language thing at some point but Im not sure if it wasnt already dead when it got selected.

      Smombie and Gammelfleischparty are words made up by the jugendwort jury or media.

      This entire jugendwort thing got much more accurate over the last few years but before that nobody really cared anymore because it was just a bunch of old people inventing words they thought young people might use

    13. olf99 on

      i routinely hear „i bims“ und „hartzen“. 
      i would also like to add my favorite: „darf er so?“

    14. Bemteb on

      I used “I bims” back in 2007. Not sure if it was still common ten years later.

      It was mostly followed by “einz”, like “I bims, einz Huhn!”

    15. Iridium-88 on

      Goonen is 100% a 2025 word. Idk how many times ive seen it used by youth this year, especially on the internet

    17. blacksabbath-n-roses on

      I’ve definitely used “I bims” and the whole lingo around it for far longer than it was actually cool.

      I bims, 1 teenager vong 2017 her!

    19. Logical_Meeting_8935 on

      Hi. I’m sorry, the goofy from the last rotten meat party. Hard smombies have a bad aura, goon on their smash chats all day, you check? Totally crazy.

    20. RubGreen8691 on

      And I thought that the youngsters became retarded 🤔. Seems I just became old…

    21. tosho_okada on

      Goonen originally came from subcultures in Reddit, online games and Discord and made its way into TikTok and schools but not sure if it’s a 2025 thing. Heard of this from American teens some time ago. Same way some other words are viral in tiktok if they make it into German tiktok and become mainstream they get adapted until it turns into cacophony and people stop saying it

    22. Purple10tacle on

      Youth language is in constant flux, hence the constantly changing “Jugendwörter des Jahres”. Few things kill the usage of a “youth word” than officially being crowned one.

      The teenager who use “Gammelfleischparty” before 2008 is about to celebrate their 30. birthday and has likely long forgotten and/or is too embarrassed to admit having ever used the word.

    23. canaanit on

      It’s really weird, some of these are spot on current colloquial language use, some are more like “meme words” that are not used all that much, and some seem entirely made up and cringey.

      I work a lot with teens and 20somethings, and there is definitely a whole spectrum of words and phrases and expressions. Some are very specific to socio-cultural groups, some drift from one group to the other, for example many slang words have an Arabic or Turkish origin and are only used by migrant / bilingual kids at first but then they disperse into the wider demographic. Also, even a small age difference of 3-4 years can make a huge difference in language use. Many of these words are very short-lived, too, after a while they are either completely forgotten or they become fossilized as memes or something you only use sarcastically.

    24. JibanyanX on

      yeah but when they become old we say they’re cringe and use other ones. it has like a Rotation which words we use every year

    Leave A Reply