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Wet morning in Nuremberg

During my gap year I worked in a youth hostel in Nuremberg. One morning it was raining quite badly and when a colleague came into the kitchen where I was eating breakfast, I proceeded to ask whether she had got soaked and I exclaimed: Bist du feucht geworden? This comment was met with silence followed by much laughter at my expense. Little did I realise at the time, but I had in fact asked, in the very crudest manner, whether the 50 year old housekeeper had been aroused. Oh well, you can only try.

Editor's note: Well done for trying and grammatically everything's correct. Both feucht and nass mean 'wet', but in this case it's safer to say Bist du nass geworden?

Sent by: Alexander

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Ben 2008-08-22

Interesting coincidence, there is actually a part of Nuremberg called ±·Ã¼°ù²Ô²ú±ð°ù²µ-¹ó±ð³Ü³¦³ó³Ù!

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Sabine 2005-07-27

The word feucht rather means 'moist' than 'wet'.

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