German is pretty famous for its compound nouns, after all, they’re really easy to make! Here are just a few of the new German words that have come out during the corona pandemic since 2020:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abstandsbier<\/strong> – distance+beer = meeting up to have a beer, but with appropriate social distancing<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anwesenheitskultur<\/strong> – presence+culture = companies with an established culture of all employees being physically on site during opening hours<\/p>\n\n\n\n Behelfsmaske<\/strong> – temporary+mask = an improvised (non-medical) face mask situation<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coronam\u00fcdigkeit<\/strong> – corona+exhaustion = this one is pretty obvious<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coronaspeck<\/strong> – corona+bacon = weight gained during lockdown<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ellenbogengru\u00df<\/strong> – elbow+greeting = touching elbows instead of shaking hands <\/p>\n\n\n\n Fu\u00dfgru\u00df<\/strong> – feet+greeting = same idea, different body part<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fensterbesuch<\/strong> – window+visit = visiting someone without entering their home<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gesichtskondom<\/strong> – face+condom = this one is pretty self explanatory <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hamsteritis<\/strong> – hamster + itis = the tendency to buy in bulk and hoard items like toilet paper <\/p>\n\n\n\n Impfneid<\/strong> – vaccine+envy = being jealous of people in prioritized groups who have had access to vaccines <\/p>\n\n\n\n Impfdr\u00e4ngler<\/strong> – vaccine+pushy person\/tailgater = people who can’t wait to get vaccinated and are being too pushy about it, like trying to skip to the front of the line<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jo-Jo-Lockdown<\/strong> – yoyo+lockdown = like yoyo weight, but with the lockdown – shutting down, opening up, then shutting back down again <\/p>\n\n\n\n Klopapierhysterie<\/strong> – toilet+paper+hysteria = people rushing to buy and hoard an obscene amount of toilet paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lockdownverweigerer<\/strong> – lockdown+refusenik = people refusing to comply with lockdown orders<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nacktnase<\/strong> – naked+nose = a nose that’s not covered by a mask<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nasenpimmel<\/strong> – nose+pecker = a nose that’s not covered by a mask, but with a penis joke<\/p>\n\n\n\n Virenschleuder<\/strong> – virus+centrifuge = people or situations that promote an unmitigated spread of the virus<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zoombombing<\/strong> – the same as in English, but it’s just as cute in German<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" German is pretty famous for its compound nouns, after all, they’re really easy to make! 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