I am getting comments and/or that Austrian is a sexist language, as most of the explained words here make women bad, please let me assure you, that this is not the case. This whole blog just got created to make a log which funny Austrian words we encounter while my wife is learning German. And really: It is not making women bad, is it? OK, today's word will be Schachtel , which is a box. And Schachtel is used for... a woman. Often used in conjunction as alte Schachtel which makes a not too smart elderly woman, and often complaining uselessly about something. As people might now think about the use of this Blog again here we have yet another Homework: Next time you are at the cashier in the super market you don't have much time as your lunch break is soon over and there is this elderly lady in front of you that needs about forever to put her few things on the conveyor belt and is totally baffled that she has to pay and does this with all the small coins she has in her purs
This should be a humorous guide for people learning or trying to understand the German spoken in Austria. And there are lots of problems, like Austrians make everything small in their language. And with some words they got so used to the small form, that they don’t even have a normal form for it anymore, like Eutzerl, there is no such thing as a Eutz.