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[–] 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Unkraut in German. Doesn't deserve to be called a Kraut.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Similar in Norwegian: Ugress. Un-grass.

    I've heard one definition of it that I like: The grass that your (grazing) animals won't eat.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ogräs in swedish, gräs is herb and the O is like making it not-grass.

    Röka gräs is smoking weed though so suddenly it's getting the good treatment.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Herb is ört in Swedish. Gräs is better translated as grass, so ogräs is non-grass. This also enables a funny way to insult someone's lawn -- since lawn is gräsmatta (grass carpet) -- by calling it an ogräsmatta.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So technically all non-Germans are Unkrauts! I‘m incorporating this word.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I know where you are coming from, but as a German calling someone „Unkraut“ has a very dehumanizing sound and was used by nazis to classify people they wanted to murder. Example: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/6SLYFZ3ZSAWYUJX26V4EXWYGFZBI7ZFH

    „However, it would have to become the task of the Inner Mission... to clear God's field of this Unkraut“: women as victims of forced serialisation and "euthanasia" under National Socialism

    What happend next is posted daily by https://mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum So you might want to skip this.

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