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B727 From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 513 posts, RR: 2
Posted (4 years 2 months 2 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 2505 times:

We are trying to figure out what Vegates means. It is spellled how it sounds spelling may be wrong.

My father is from Vienna and says is all the time but wont tell us. Perhaps its a bad word?? Or he like to play games with us.

thanks
B727
Glenn

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Ihadapheo From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 6026 posts, RR: 59
Reply 1, posted (4 years 2 months 2 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 2495 times:

I might be a bit off or simply confused but I believe it roughly means

"How are you" or "good day"

IHAP

Pray hard but pray with care For the tears that you are crying now Are just your answered prayers

Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16888 posts, RR: 51
Reply 2, posted (4 years 2 months 2 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 2487 times:

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He is saying "Wie geht's?" which translates to "how goes it?" Nothing bad about it, it's a standard greeting in German. Folks will also add "Guten Tag" or "Guten Abend" or "Guten Morgen" to the phrase as well. There are regional variations on the spelling and punctuation, but the above is the "standard" German, which is the common dialect that is taught internationally.

[Edited 2009-03-08 16:29:33]

B727 From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 513 posts, RR: 2
Reply 3, posted (4 years 2 months 2 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 2448 times:

Thanks for the info.

B727
Glenn

LHboyatDTW From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (4 years 2 months 2 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 2440 times:

To add to is little lesson, they often add "dir" (pronounced as deer) or "ihnen" (pronounced ee-nen) to the end to provide more clarity.

dir = informal
ihnen = formal

to respond, simply say:

"Es geht mir gut, danke." / (pronounced: s gate meer goot don kah)

Literally translated it means, "It goes me well, thank you."

Ihadapheo From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 6026 posts, RR: 59
Reply 5, posted (4 years 2 months 2 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 2424 times:

I am shocked that I pulled that out of the memory banks.That was from my 6th grade German class and that was in spring 1975. I would have trouble remembering what i had for lunch 2 days ago but for some reason a 34 year old German lesson stuck with me..

Oh well

IHAP

Pray hard but pray with care For the tears that you are crying now Are just your answered prayers

TheSonntag From Germany, joined Jun 2005, 3347 posts, RR: 30
Reply 6, posted (4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago) and read 2354 times:

In the German museum of contemplorate history in Bonn (Haus der Geschichte) you can actually buy replicas of guides for US soldiers occupying Germany in 1945. "Do not Fraternize" Wink

In this guide there is a hilarious pronounciation guide for common phrases.

Each much-tuh ayn-uh frah-guh stell-uhn

Aero145 From Iceland, joined Jan 2005, 3070 posts, RR: 23
Reply 7, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2320 times:

Quoting TheSonntag (Reply 7):
In the German museum of contemplorate history in Bonn (Haus der Geschichte) you can actually buy replicas of guides for US soldiers occupying Germany in 1945. "Do not Fraternize"

In this guide there is a hilarious pronounciation guide for common phrases.

Each much-tuh ayn-uh frah-guh stell-uhn

Gotta check that out, HdG is only a few minutes from here. Big grin

AustrianZRH From Austria, joined Aug 2007, 1264 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2316 times:

Quoting TheSonntag (Reply 7):
TheSonntag

Somewhere there's a picture of JFK's notes for his Berlin speech, pronouncing "Ich bin ein Berliner" as "ish been ein Bearleener" Smile

WARNING! The post above should be taken with a grain of salt! Furthermore, it may be slightly biased towards A.

Doona From Sweden, joined Feb 2005, 3706 posts, RR: 14
Reply 9, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 2265 times:

Quoting LHboyatDTW (Reply 4):
don kah

How come Americans always seem to pronounce "Danke" this way? To me, it seems phonetically spelling it out as "Dahn-keh" or "Dann-keh" would be alot more correct. Of course, if "Don-kah" is some other form of German, one with which I was never made familiar, disregard the above...

Cheers
Mats

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ME AVN FAN From Switzerland, joined May 2002, 13874 posts, RR: 28
Reply 10, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 2250 times:

Quoting LHboyatDTW (Reply 4):
"Es geht mir gut, danke."

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In reality, the answer simply is "....gut, danke"; as the question will not be "Wie geht es Ihnen" or "Wie gehts Dir" but simply "Wie gehts ? ". In Switzerland the question will be "We gahts ? " or "We haemmers ?" and the answer "Guet, danke".

[Edited 2009-03-09 13:21:13]

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