This was our look at the colloquialicious word Hammer. If you have any questions or if you’ve heard other uses for it or if you’re a German speaker and you DON’T use Hammer just leave a comment. long trusted as the most comprehensive, up-to-date and user-friendly grammar available, hammer’s german grammar and usage provides you with a complete guide to german as it is written and spoken today. The tool is fun, but the name is just hammer… as in awesome :). What we could do now is talk about the plural of Hammer and the verb and we could list all the different kinds of Hammers but if you ask me, there’s a better option… we take our Feierabendhammer and open a beer.Īnd if you’re now like “Wait… what’s a Feierabendhammer?” … well…. You wouldn’t complain to your professor that the test was hammerkompliziert… unless he or she is hammercool.Īll right. Not by everyone of course, but they’re not some crazy niche slang either and if you want to sound a little more native, just throw one in here and there. The first two we had, the stand alone Hammerand the hammer+adjective, are used all over Germany, I think. master stuff tank bust hammer quash thrash whip pulverise UK pulverize US. I hear them a lot and I use them daily but maybe it’s just a regional thing. COM Knowledge Grammar & Spelling Good writing is considerate of its audience. These last examples are super colloquial though. Looks like, when Germans have to decide between hammer and proper grammar, grammar stands no chance ). Well… this idea of force and impact combined with the super easy pronunciation have inspired Germans to use Hammer for what is today: a pretty common colloquial word used to express the idea of “high intensity, high impact” or simply “ extreme“. Not as much as the 1.5 billion you get for “sex” and the 2.7 billion you get for “Auto” but for instance 2.5 times as many as for “Fußball” and “Bier”.Īnd even if some of the hits are due to the fact that Hammer is also a name, Germans clearly have something going on with the word. And now guess how many hits you get for Hammer… … … For “ Bier”, something that Germans really like, you get 78 million. Now, when you type in” Schere” on Google you get about 8 million hits. Let me give you an idea of how common Hammer is – the word Schere means scissors. I use scissors almost every day whereas I use a hammer once a month maybe. Or can it.Īnyway… of course, der Hammer is the exact same thing as the English hammer, the tool to put in nails. What you might not know though is just how much Germans like the word. But hey… it can only go uphill from here.
That must have been one of the unfunniest jokes ever. Oh boy, so much for my new years resolution of making better jokes. So basically it’s like ham just … hammer. It’s usually made from porc and it’s either dried, smoked or wet cured.
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