German speakers..How do you say "welcome home" in German ?

[masmdu]

Thanks

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. I don't understand what you're asking.

I would think that "Willkommenes Haus!" might work. Or would it be Willkommenes Haupt? Oh crap, wait for a real fluent German speaker. Ignore me.

[masmdu]

2. kick

[masmdu]

3. anybody?

[tigereye]

6. Wilkommen zum meine Hause?

no, the dictionary says

Willkommen zu Hause!
Willkommen in der Heimat!

[Atlas Mugged]

7. You nailed it

It's "Willkommen zu Hause"

I live with a German teacher.

[Enraged_Ape]

10. I agree. "Willkommen zu Hause" is it.

2 years of high-school German, 1 year of college German here.

Of course... that was many years ago.

[sasquatch]

4. Willkommenes Heim

[UncleSepp]

8. That would be a home which is welcome

To do a translation here, you have to tease out all of the details of what you're saying in English before trying to say it in German. When you say to someone "Welcome home", are you saying "I welcome you to my home" and meaning "My home is your home"? Or "Be welcome in this home"? Or even "Welcome back to your own home"?

It's kind of a PITA, ain't it? :-)

[sasquatch]

23. Are you Deutcher?

[UncleSepp]

25. Nee - ich bin Amerikanerin

But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night :-D Why do you ask?

[sasquatch]

27. You just said no in Dutch

My Greatgranfather was a German Immigrant.

[UncleSepp]

41. Dutch, really?

That's pretty funny. I'd heard people using it in German in colloquial speech and picked it up. It would be pretty funny overall if the colloquialisms I've picked up are partly Dutch or Rheinisch. I've been known to have picked up and used outdated German, too. For example, I asked an elderly lady on a bus once if she couldn't please open the window, which started a whole conversation about "That's so nice, nobody's that nice any more, nobody ever says that in that way any more."

From where in Germany did your great-grandfather immigrate?

[CBHagman]

43. People say "Nee" all the time for "Nein."

And variations, which I can't transcribe here due to be umlaut-challenged.

[GirlinContempt]

5. Direct translation?

willkommen zu haus? Thats as close as I can get first thing in the mornin'

EDIT
Ignore me

[Kellanved]

9. "Willkommen daheim"

:hi:

[Enraged_Ape]

11. That sounds like Yiddish

You meshugennuh mamser. :)

[Kellanved]

13. It looks like Yiddish

Which is part of the sad tale of history lost.


But hey, let's stick to German words, Du verrückter B... . ;-)

[edbermac]

12. If you're in Hamburg, how do you order a hamburger?

Just wondering...

[Kellanved]

14. Go to Burgerking, or order a cheeseburger.

;-)

"Frikadelle" or "Bulette " will do as well.

[Enraged_Ape]

15. Hamburgers in Hamburg are called "Home Towners"

Also known as Heimstadters.

I just totally made that up, but it sounds good.

[Redstone]

16. Wilkomm zu Heim.

Heim being Home. "Wilkomm zu Haus" means "Welcome to the house," which is OK to say but not, I think what you're looking for.

Ask LynnzM, if you see her. Her German is better than mine.

Redstone

[Enraged_Ape]

17. Haus, IIRC, is "house", Hause is (one's) "domicile or place...

of residence." Heim is "home" in the more general sense.

But it has been many years since I took German. I used to be pretty good, though. My teacher told me I had an accent like a Munich TV anchor. I thought that was pretty darn cool.

[Kellanved]

18. That sums it up quite nicely.

"Heim" is "home" in an old-fashioned sense. Its use is more like "asylum".


Both "daheim" and "zu Hause" are correct - none of the other proposals are.

</smarty pants>

[Enraged_Ape]

19. "Asylum"?

That's hilarious! VERY good to know!!

[Kellanved]

24. Yup.

"Das Heim" = the loony bin/ asylum
"Das Obdachlosenheim" = homeless shelter
...

yet:
"(unser) trautes Heim" = "home, sweet home"

An extremely dangerous word ;-) .

[tigereye]

20. well

I used my faulty memory of 5 years of German... unsuccessfully, I might add and then resorted to the rigidity of the English to German dictionary...

little story for you, K, my German teacher used to tell us never to say, "Ich bin voll" ( thinking it meant I am full), since it apparently means I am pregnant!

[Kellanved]

21. Don't be

I mangle English in about 1000 different ways on a daily basis. And you were very close :D .

As to "Ich bin voll": either "I am shit-faced drunk", or "I can't eat any more" - certainly not "pregnant".



:rofl:

[tigereye]

22. well Herr Eels apparently lied to us 30 years ago!

:silly:

[Kellanved]

29. I'd say it was a ruse.

To help you avoid a construction (Ich bin <adjective expressing a personal feeling> ) which technically is incorrect, yet is in use.

[Enraged_Ape]

26. I heard that "Ich bin heiss"...

means "I am hot for a horny night of wild lovemaking" rather than "I am overcome by the heat." (which I think is supposed to be "Ich bin mir heiss"). Can anyone confirm?

[Kellanved]

28. well,

"heiss" can mean horny/desireable. As hot can in English, for that matter.

The problem is the well known "I am" vs "Ich bin" and "Mir ist" issue.

[neweurope]

30. Just a matter of grammar...

"Mir ist heiß" means "I am overcome by the heat". "Ich bin heiß" means - in some circles anyway, so I've been told - "I'm hot for lovemaking". Aahm - dogs are "heiß" regularly.

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[Enraged_Ape]

34. Hey, how did you get the esstzet in your post?

That is cool!

[neweurope]

35. Oops - completely forgot :) I'm German and the"ß" is a normal part

of my keyboard. On my "German" Word program I just found it also under "Symbols" and there "Latin-1". Try :)

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[Left_Winger]

36. Using Windows the 'ß' is made by

engaging the number lock function, then hold down the 'alt' key and type 225 on the number pad, then release the 'alt' key and there it is. It is also available, as well as many other letters with diacritical marks, under the 'symbol' command in MS Word.

[Enraged_Ape]

37. Let me try this...

GWB is a major-league aßhole.

Hey, it works!!

[Left_Winger]

39. Oder man kann auch sagen...

GWB ist ein echter Arschloch!

[Enraged_Ape]

42. Echter Arschloch! Danke fur daß! (n/t)

[CBHagman]

44. Das stimmt!

Bush is auch ein Heuchler und ein fauler Pelz.

[Redstone]

31. Well, that's why I advised him to use "Heim."

I think it more closely conveys the idea of "welcome home."

Redstone

[LynzM]

32. Aww, thanks, dude

I'm flattered! There are numerous better German speakers around than I, though :)

'zu Hause' implies... more like home, cozy, as far as I understand it. When you're talking about home in the sense of 'homeland' or 'home state', you use Heimat, I think? :shrug: Kellanved, come back!

[neweurope]

33. Right :) "Zu Hause" is my personal home.

Also "Heim". "Mein Heim" = my house, my place. "Heimgehen" ist mostly interchangeable with "nach Hause gehen" (the only difference is that "heimgehen" is also sometimes still used for "dying"); both means "to go home". "Heimat" is "homeland", "native country".

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[Heidi]

38. My husband is a native speaker.

German is his first language. He says "Willkommen Zuhause" is correct.

(Edited for poor punctuation.)

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. Wilkommen bei Haus

That's totally wrong, but it's a funny kind of wrong.

:-)

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

45. " Willkommen zu Hause "

is what I would say .