Could someone please define the German term "uber?"

[caledesi]

Thank you. I am seeing it all the time and feel really dumb, however, I "know" my schadenfreude!

Schadenfeude - getting pleasure from other people's suffering.

(like the indictments from Plamegate, for instance...LOL).

[miss_kitty]

1. Over. n/t

[Fenris]

2. Do you mean "über"?

[MissB]

3. over or above

[Splatter Phoenix]

4. I always thought it meant "super" or "superior to"

As in Übermensch; superhuman.

[MissB]

5. the literal translation

would be "over man" which heck, might as well mean superman.

[Splatter Phoenix]

7. Aww. Sounds more like a Government-subversion thing to me... >]

But maybe I'm just an evil godless monster like that. :D GET OVER THE MAN. OOOOVER. HE WILL DOMINATE US NO LONGER!

...anyway, thanks. XD makes more sense.

[Kellanved]

9. well

Super is Latin for "above", "on", "over" - just like "Über" in German.


"Über" has many uses, but only the uses as preposition or as part of an verb or adverb are really common - the whole "über-something has" a slang quality to it.

[arwalden]

6. And What Does "Sieg Heil" Mean? ... Victory Welfare?

Does it lose something in the translation? Is there an English equivalent?

[Initech]

8. I'm pretty sure it means "all hail".

As in:

All hail mein fuhrer Bush!

[Kellanved]

10. difficult to answer

It's like a combination of "All Hail to .." and "On wards to victory". :scared:

[caledesi]

11. Thank you all. I feel "in the loop" now! NT