{"id":8725,"date":"2013-06-11T11:40:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8725"},"modified":"2013-06-11T11:40:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:40:54","slug":"things-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8725","title":{"rendered":"Things and stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I learnt the German word  <em><strong>(das) zeug<\/strong><\/em>, which means stuff; gear; clothes; things; nonsense; rubbish; old material &#8211; a useful word when you don&#8217;t know or can&#8217;t recall a more specific term. Having a few such words up your sleeve in whatever language(s) you&#8217;re learning is a good idea. What are equivalent words in your language(s)?<\/p>\n<p><em>Zeug<\/em> also appears in the such expressions as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; altes Zeug = junk, trash<br \/>\n&#8211; albernes Zeug = (silly) nonsense<br \/>\n&#8211; dummes Zeug = rubbish \/ nonsense<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8230; und solches Zeug =  &#8230; and such things<br \/>\n&#8211; dummes \/ ungereimtes Zeug reden = to talk a lot of nonsense \/ drivel \/ twaddle<br \/>\n&#8211; dummes Zeug sabbern \/ schwafeln \/ schwatzen = to talk drivel<br \/>\n&#8211; rede kein dummes Zeug = don&#8217;t talk nonsense<br \/>\n&#8211; das Zeug zu etw haben = to have (got) what it takes to be sth<br \/>\n&#8211; er hat nicht das Zeug dazu = he hasn&#8217;t got what it takes<\/p>\n<p>I also learnt how to say combine harvester (a very useful word!) in German: <em>m\u00e4hndrescher<\/em> (&#8220;mane thresher&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I learnt the German word (das) zeug, which means stuff; gear; clothes; things; nonsense; rubbish; old material &#8211; a useful word when you don&#8217;t know or can&#8217;t recall a more specific term. Having a few such words up your sleeve in whatever language(s) you&#8217;re learning is a good idea. What are equivalent words in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,116,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-german","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}