german is easy:

vehicle? drive thing

plane? fly thing

drum kit? hit thing

tools? work thing

@tom

gloves? hand shoes

Orange? Chinese apple

Watch? At-look

@shel wait what's watch supposed to be actually,

@tom Ich sehe der Film an? That's how I was taught to say it in German class? Maybe that's how you say it in Trier not in Wien?

@tom and i remember it being a Thing cuz someone was like "Wart... auf deutsche sprechst du 'I look at the movie?'" and we had a laugh cuz it just sounds funny in English to say you're "looking at a movie" kinda like how "hand shoe" is funny

Ich sehe mein Timeline an. Es gibt ein Toot. I sehe das Toot. Ich booste das Toot. Das toot ist geboostet.

@shel I usually say "der Toot" because uh, I guess it's "der Post"? "der Tweet"? The rule is usually to use the grammatical gender of the translation, but there isn't one here so I forgot where I was going mit diesem Toot

@noiob huh! Interesant! I had been taught that loan-words in german are always Neuter