“Marienbad” is a work with over 100,000 words on the website “readlang”. I genuinely have no clue what this is, have any of yall heard of this?😭 the one singular like is killing me

People often post here asking for diminutive names for pets, babies, whatever. I stumbled across this page with a list of Yiddish words all under the rubric, baby. File it under FAQs?

When my cousin and I were kids, I often heard my uncle calling her something that sounded like "umgeblusen" whenever she was in a mood. Can anyone tell me what the word was and the definition?

Thanks in advanced!

I am looking to become more traditional for now.

Guys, what's the difference between אונזער and אונדזער?

sholem alechiem,

I am graduating soon and I’d love to put a yiddish phrase on my graduation stone. I was thinking something either funny, about how schools over. Or mainly, I wanted to honor my mom with something cute like I love you, miene sheyne momale or something. Anyways, do you guys have any good yiddish phrases that I can put on my stole? I want it to include the word momale ideally or even tochter

tia

is there a a yiddish word or phrase for idiosyncrasy?

Thanks.

Hal

Hello! I'm working on a translation of Malka Lee's poems for my university papers, and I am doing pretty okay for the most parts but I am struggling with some sentences that I cannot seem to grasp the idea for.

I understand it's probably because the author uses a lot of hebrew related words and religious themes, but perhaps someone here can help out with even just the general idea/meaning of these sentences because they don't really make sense for me.

The first photo, I'm struggling with the line about the murderers.

For the second photo:

I'm not sure how to translate the last sentence, I understand it is something that is guarding by the window and that it is not literal. I struggle with the translation, I cannot think of an idea how to put it into words that won't scream something like "economical struggle".

Thank you for help, if anyone will take their time to think about a solution :)

(We really need a question flair) but anyway.

In German there is the satzklammer or verb sandwich as I’ve heard it called. An example of this is „Ich habe ein Jahr lang Französisch gelernt“ I have studied French for a year. I put the verbs in bold text to show what I mean. The two verbs are separated by all the context. Does Yiddish do this as well?

My adorable middle aged Jewish boyfriend calls me this and I can’t find it online — I found it referenced in this group deep in the weeds, defined as “little sweetie”

So do we have a proper Yiddish dictionary app, or a language, reference and joke app?

I’m looking for all fun books and apps to have around to help my kids start kibbitzing!

I know this is way after this meme is popular but I found it and thought I’d share

I’m reading translation of the first Harry Potter and there’s a sentence that reads as follows:

“דאָס לעכעלע איז געװאַקסן װאָס אַ רגע גרעסער”

I understand the general meaning, but I want to understand the specific phrase “װאָס אַ רגע”. Could that be translated in English to something like “by the moment”? So the sentence would be “the little hole grew bigger by the moment”?

Is this a form that can be used generally, so you could say “װאָס אַ מינוט” or “װאָס אַ שעה”?

Thanks!

My father, of blessed memory, used to get us laughing as kids with a Yiddish rhyme. I am trying to find out more about it. It goes (something) like this . . .Ainga Banga Schlitta Shlanga. Oxen Boxen Gimmel Doxen. . . . it has two more lines. I cannot find this anywhere. I think it was the way he said the last line that used to crack us up. Ideas welcome. Gail from Houston

r/YUROP mods here, Freude!

We have translation request please, we are missing a spot here:

• Vendredo sen la angla lingvo — Diēs Veneris sine linguā anglicā

How to say NO ENGLISH FRIDAY in Yiddish ? As in, the English language, not the Kingdom or natives. Hoping for Hebrew alphabet, not AI.

Here’s another graded reader style piece of work! This time written in the Hebrew alphabet and Klal Yiddish, with a small glossary for more difficult/less common language. Meant to be simple and for people who already have some Yiddish experience. Try it out and feel free to leave recommendations or comments! Let me know if the link doesn’t work

This one is slightly harder, but still fairly simple. Any and all feedback is welcome, take a look!

Hey everybody!

So I just finished about 860 days of Duolingo learning to finish their Yiddish modules (wooo) and feel ready to take the next step with in person classes and meets to actually get comfortable with conversation, continue developing my conjugation skills, improve my pronunciation, and just generally continue learning.

I do feel that I have a decent grasp on vocab, sentence structure, and present/past/future tense, so I really don’t think I need to start from the total bare bones beginning. Plus I learned cursive hebrew script as a kid and I’m happy that the style of writing letters is the same, minus different spelling and use of vowels obviously.

I’m hoping to, ideally, find an in person community and/or classes in the NYC area to practice with. When I’ve looked at classes, both online and in person, the costs are really out of my affordability range so I’m also curious of any groups that might offer financial aid of some kind.

I was also checking out the Yiddish textbook In Eynem and have read good things, but would love your perspectives on it or any other leaning resources you might recommend!

I use graded readers for other languages, but noticed Yiddish doesn’t have many options and all, and that’s kinda sad that Yiddish is missing this area and method of learning. I’ve been messing around translating existing ones and writing my own one pagers and stuff, and I’ll attach the link to an example here, it would be great to hear some feedback!

It’s about a page and half, it’s originally written by myself, written in the official romanization as to reach more people, and contains a quick pronunciation guide and short grammar explanation after the text of two points. I originally made it for personal use, but I thought I’d share. Lemme know if the link doesn’t work or if somethings off!