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Children saying "alles naher" to each other

Or something similar, is this an insult or what?

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Pas
I'm not sure what it is my kids are saying to each other but is sounds like 'Alles naher?'. Whatever it is the wee one gets very upset about it.

Anybody got any ideas what they are saying and what the translation is? Given they are 3 & 5 I suspect it's nothing too strong.
Fallen Angel
Could you perhaps give a specific example of when the phrase is used? I have a 4 year old and am trying to think of what she might say given a particular situation.
Pas
There seems to be no situation past the little one runs through and says 'matti hat alles nahar/naher or whatever gesagt'. Makes a change from dumbkopf.
DDBug
Naher might be a person?? As in - he told Naher everything. (Kindergarden teacher?)

My 11 year old is reading this right now and he can't figure it out either.

My 7 year old says it means "näher" as in closer. rolleyes.gif
LeChamois
Arschlecker?
Fallen Angel
Perhaps it's something like "alles meine" but with a bavarian accent? That sounds like something typically a kid in that age might say.
toko
Could be "Alles klar" in toddler lingo.
"Alles klar?" is not always meant positive. Just as "Geht's noch?"
Pas
Now i'm more confused. It's as it sounds 'alles ganz naher'. Everything is close. Says my 5 year old.

Probably need more context next time they start going at each other with this one.
eurovol
Dude, it took me months and months to figure out what my son was saying. He kept asking for "sucka wjota" and I thought he wanted cotton candy for the longest time. It finally hit me that he was asking for chocolate. There is no telling what your kid is saying. Just nod and tell them to go back and tell the other one "sucka wjota" and stick their tongue out and everything will be okie dokie.
zee
the only thing I could imagine is "... hat alles nachgesagt", if one constantly repeats what the other has said, the other might be upset about it.
Fallen Angel
It does sometimes help if you just look at them and say something like, "Oh sweetie. Sorry, I just can't understand what you're trying to tell me" unsure.gif
Pas
Right now they are not understanding GO TO BED so that might be a bit hard for them...
Fallen Angel
laugh.gif fair enough then. If it was serious, they'd make it clear what they were on about.
damara4178
My brother and I used to make up words to insult eachother. These words were usually hybrids of sounds/characters/words we saw in movies/TV . . . For example: Tooming-eee (a combination of a Japanese character who was dumb named Tooming, and a sound he made during the show 'eee'). I think we were 4 and 5 at the time.

It is the silliest thing in the world, but not at all uncommon. All my mother could do was laugh whenever one of us told on the other for calling me/him such a name. To this day, she still doesn't quite get it . . . It may just be an insult in your kids' head, and not in the real world.
jasmina
Ein Narr is a fool, so maybe one is calling the other a Narr? or maybe one is "narren" the other, fooling or making fun of him or her?
Kommentarlos
QUOTE (jasmina @ Jul 21 2008, 3:05 pm) *
Ein Narr is a fool, so maybe one is calling the other a Narr?

Do your children watch the The A Team?

I remember kids at school going 'You fool' in the style of the legendary Mr. T at each other. laugh.gif

Fraid I have never watched in Krout though, so I don't know how it has been translated.
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