German Tongue Twisters
Zungenbrecher

Rough Translations

1. Do we have to add one egg? German: Muss man da ein Ei reintun? 
2. Has anybody got a comb or a piece of soap? German: Hat keiner keinen Kamm oder ein Stück Seife? 
3. Is it raining heavily in Zürich? German: Strätzen = heftig regnen. z'Züri = in (zu) Zürich. Also: Regnet's (stark) in Zürich? 
4. Squirrel's tail. German: Eichkätzchenschweif (Eichhörnchenschweif) 
5. When suffering my only confort was love. 
6. Those Danes, that stretch the Dane's Danes, stretch their Danes. 
7. Nodding nieces and seesawing spruces. 
8. "Abraham!" said Bebraham; "Could I have your zebra?" 
9. Paint a small man. German: Mal (da) einmal ein Männchen hin. 
10. Pulling a basket full of soap down a ladder in Schleitheim. German: In Schleitheim eine Zeine voll Seife die Leiter hinab schleifen. 
11. Boy, let down your blinds (shutters). German: Junge las deinen Rolladen herunter rollen. 
12. Gruel is always gruel, war-hatchet is always war-hatchet. 
13. strawberry jam German: Erdbeermarmelade  
14. The knife and fork for Spätzle with smoked ham (a typical dish) were order to late. 
15. I once knew one (woman), that had a child, which she had from someone, if she hadn't know him, she wouldn't have that child. German: Ich habe eine gekannt, die ein Kind hatte, das hatte sie von einem, wenn sie den nicht gekannt hätte, hätte sie auch das Kind nicht. 
16. Test for the tolerance of contact lenses 
17. Peartree (Birnbaum) is written with peartree "B" and poplar (Pappelbaum) is written with poplar "P". German: Birnbaum schreibt man mit Birnbaum "B" und Pappelbaum schreibt man mit Pappelbaum "P". 
18. On the butcher's shop sign the space between "Cheese" and "and" and "and" and "Sausage" was to small. 
19. That is my opinion too. German: Ich meine schon auch. 
20. The brewer in Zipf (a town in Upper Austria) draws ten barrels of Zipfer (the beer from Zipf). 
21. Where are you, puffball (bovista mushroom)? 
22. meeting of the commission for applications 
24. Don't ring this bell, this bell won't ring. Ring this bell, this bell will ring. German: Du mußt nicht an dieser Glocke läuten, diese Glocke läutet nicht, du mußt an dieser Glocke läutet, diese Glocke läutet. 
25. No small child can split a small cherry stone for a small child. German: Kein kleines Kind kann keinem kleinen Kind einen kleinen Kirschkern klein klieben (=spalten). 
27. A small piece of bread that a little child called Fritzle (typical Swabian boy's name) has lost is lying in the yard. Then a small (in swabian everything is small) rooster comes and eats up the piece of bread. 
28. From the dead giant's trousers grew a red wild rose. 
29. Two astronauts chewed and chwed while the gathered blue-green moonstones. 
30. I carried the machine down. German: Ich habe den Apparat hinunter getragen. 
31. Then it will wilt away. German: Dann verdorrt er Dir! 
32. Shoe-shine brush, spice box. German: Wichsbürste (Bürste, mit der man Schuhe putzt, also "wichst") - Gewürzbüchse 
33. If I can come, I will come, but I will hardly be able to come. German: Wenn ich kommen kann, komme ich, ich werde aber kaum kommen können. 
34. nonsensical sentence 
35. someone authorized to check the brakes of a train 
36. On October 10 at 10:10 ten tame goats dragged ten hundredweight of sugar to the zoo. 
37. Do you know that the "that" is the most used word in the sentence? 
39. A tin/pot of jam we have at home too. German: Ein Marmaladeneimerchen haben wir zuhause auch. 
40. The Pope ordered the cutlery for smoked ham too late in Spiez. German: Der Papst bestellte in Spiez das Speckbesteck zu spät.  
41. Look over there, he is lying there. German: Sieh einmal dorthin, da liegt er doch. 
42. I have laid one egg every year anyway. German: Ich habe sowieso jedes Jahr ein Ei hinunter gelegt. 
44. Small chinese bowl 
45. A librarian with a diploma ... 
46. Brewer Bauer is brewing brown beer, brown beer is beeing brewed by brewer Bauer. 
47. The roofer is roofing your roof, therefore thank the roofer who is roofing your roof. 
48. German: Mostpappen = Dialekt für "vom Saufen schiefes Maul 
49. It happens that the decendants cannot live on the income and then die completely depraved. 
50. Those power women with their women power. 
51. Soup of shark's tail meat 
52. Three fat dumb women are thundering through the thick stupid village. 
53. The devil shall take you! German: Dass dich der Teufel (hole)! 
54. An ugly green painted garden door. German: Ein unschön grün angestrichenes Gartentürchen. 
55. The bricklayer Boeckl carried a pick and a pack on his back. Behind him walked the tramp Baeckl with his dog Bockl. Suddenly Baeckl's Bockl snapped at Boeckl's pack and togetehr with the pick tore it of his back. 
56. Those that despise those that think the Didi Hallervorden Show (by a popular German comedian) is great are snobs. 
57. The cow ran until she fell. German: Die Kuh rannte, bis sie fiel. 
58. In the fish-shop: (Good) Morning! (Good) Morning! (Do you have) fish? Tomorrow! Tomorrow? (Yes) tomorrow! (Good) Morning! 
59. Merry, peaceful tropical fruit. 
60. The emperor's Carl could not chew carrawy seeds. German: Kaisers Karle konnte keine Kümmelkörner kaun. 
61. Conversation on the edge of a field: Man, mow! No priest you mow! Do priests also mow? No man. German: Ein Pfarrer (Pater) trifft am Wegesrand auf einen Knecht mit einer Sense, der sich gerade ausruht. "Mann, mähe!" "Nein, Pater, mähe du!" "Mäht denn ein Pater auch?" "Nein, Mann." 
62. Kalle the bald cat bald head scratcher scratches bald cat's heads. 
63. Lueschers doorbell only rings when Lueti rings Lueschers bell. German: Lüschers Hausglocke leutet wenn Lüti Lüschers Glocke leutet. 
64. Snails are horrified when snails lick snail, because to the horror of many snails, snails don't like snails. 
65. black Swatch (watch) 
66. On the bridge of Rapperswil there are three thin, dry, long, empty, hollow tubes, and through these three thin, dry, long, empty, hollow tubes people lern to speak properly. German: Auf der Rapperswiler Brücke (am Züricher See) stehen drei dünne, dürre, lange, leere, hohle Röhrchen, und durch diese drei dünnen, dürren, langen, leeren, hohlen Röhren lernen die Leute richtig sprechen. 
67. If you idiot say idiot to me idiot, ... 
68. The cover of an oil pot. German: Der Deckel von einem Öltiegel. 
69. Two mothers taking about a child: Is she allowed to do that! She is allowed to do that! That she is allowed to do that ... German: Zwei Frauen reden über ein Kind: - "Darf sie das?" - "Sie darf das." - "Das sie dies darf! 
70. kitchen cupboard, GermanKüchenkästchen 
71. Cheese cake in the kitchen cupboard, GermanKäsekuchen im Küchenkasten 
72. I also brought down an egg for him. German: Ich habe ihm auch ein Ei heruntergeholt. 
73. You are Buddhist. 
74. potential talents 
75. Live according to the rune of Siegreit: "Your virtue be this: never tease the ancient bull spirit in the icy fog! 
76. If my (pot) belly would allow it, I would go up the Kampenwnad (a mountain). German: Wenn ich mit meiner Wampe könnte, ging ich auf die Kampenwand. 
77. The sun is already shining nicely! And when the sun is shining nicely we don't work anymore. German: Die Sonne scheint schon schön! Und wenn die Sonne schon so schön scheint, arbeiten wir auch nichts mehr. 
78. Mr. von Hagen, may I dare to ask you what collar you were wearing as you lay ill of stomach in the city of Copenhagen. 
79. The purpose of the purpose is to serve as purpose. If the purpose doesn't serve as purpose to it's purpose, the purpose has no purpose! 
80. Do abbots mow hay? Abbots never mow hay. If abbots mow, abbots mow gras. 
81. Franconia is where hares are called "Hosen" and trousers are called "Husen". 
82. The small girl rubs her knee silently when I travel to Leipzig. 
83. The boss of the postal bus of Potsdam boxes in the boxing club of Potsdam. 
84. Itty-bitty children cannot crack a cherry stone. 
86. Fischer's freshly combed errand boy is devouring feshly fried fresh-fish patties (hamburgers). 
87. Value-added tax number 
88. Two mothers taking about a child: That it is allowed to do that! It is allowed to do that! German: Zwei Frauen reden über ein Kind: - "Das es (er/sie) dies darf!" - "Es (er/sie) darf das." 
89. On a meadow, quietly and silently sat a cricket, quietly and silently - head cut off. German: Auf einer Wiese ganz ruhig und still eine Grille. Ganz still und ruhig - Kopf abgemäht. 
90. On a Russian pasenger boat a Czech swing-jazz cellist was jamming. 
91. We Viennese Washerwomen would wash white laundry, if we knew where warm soft water was. 
92. It greens so green when the flowers in Spain flower. 
93. Sayings that must be said fast, I can hardly say fast. 
94. Do we have hammers? We don't have hammers any more! German: "Haben wir [noch] Hämmer?" "Nein, Hämmer haben wir keine mehr! 
95. The chaplain Klapp is planning a foldable cardboard poster. 
96. Two coal-black Czech-twittering pigmy swallows are sitting between two plum-tree branches. 
97. He said about the "that" that: that that is the that, that is written as "that". 
98. If bees are beamed to beams, bees are beamed to bees. 
99. Paupers have Arms. Paupers have legs. Legs have no arms. Poor legs! 
100. Behind Hans' haouse bei the hedge I heard one hundred this year's hares coughing. German: Hinter Hans' Haus bei der Hecke hab' ich hundert diesjährige Hasen husten hören! 
101. Two women taking about a child: That it is allowed to do that! It is allowed to do that! German: Zwei Frauen reden über ein Kind: - "Das es (er/sie) dies darf!" - "Es (er/sie) darf das." 
102. What are they doing there in that wood? 
103. What a weather! The wind is blowing the sand away through the door. What a weather! German:Was für ein Wetter! Der Wind weht den Sand vom Weg weg durch die Tür hindurch! Was für ein Wetter! 
104. Don't ring that bell, that bell doesn't ring. Ring that bell, that bell rings! 
105. Long ways recall wise words. 
106. Such things depress you anyway. 
107. Wedding dress stays wedding dress and red cabbage stays red cabbage. 
108. If you idiot call me "idiot", ich will call you "idiot", so often "idiot" until you idiot no longer can say "idiot" to me. 
109. Hey Toni, go down, or I will hit you down! If Toni doesn't go down, I will take Toni and hit him down. German: He Toni, geh hinunter! Geht der Toni nicht hinunter, dann pack ich den Toni und hau ihn um. 
110. Family dispute among slivovits slurping, top, twistung and perspirating twittering sisters. 
111. The child that cried so loud, sat on a hot stove plate. 
112. Max is waxing wax masks. What is Max waxing? Wax masks, Max is waxing. 
113. Such six as we five are, can't be found among four, because we three are the two only ones. German: Solche sechs wie wir fünf gibt es keine vier weil wir drei die zwei einzigen sind. Bayrische logik :-) 
114. In the center of the gras, a cadett is kneeing in a coffin. 
115. Do you also need saucers? Or are the (small) cups alone enough? German: Brauchst du auch Untertassen? Oder tun es die Tassen (Schalen) alleine auch? 
116. Uncle Fritz is fishing for fresh fish 
117. Has anybody actually said anything? German: Hat jemand vielleicht etwas gesagt? 
118. Klaus Knopf loves dumplings, (another word for) dumplings, meatballs. 
119. This is the key to the garden, for which the three maidens are waiting. The first is called Binka, the second is called Bibeljabinka, the third is called Cezizizaknabbeljababbeljabibbeljabinka. Hmmm, saif Mrs. Binka to Mrs. Bibeljabinka, what nice lace does Mrs. Cezizizaknabbeljababbeljabilleljabinka have on her skirt. 
120. They didn't have to change cars, so she silently gave herself to him. But beacause the points were switched the wrong way they rode back in a hearse. 
121. Those who report to the police those who let the thieves escape will receive a reward! 
122. One rooster, two chicken, three ducks, four geese, five pigs, six cows, seven oxen, eight nuns, nine knobby, hunchbacked beggar women are spending the night with ten Costantinoplean bagpipe-maker assistants. 
123. Center-pass kicker Flick kicks fast center-passes.
      
124. She was the doughiest dough shell of all doughy dough shells of the shell pond. 
125. If you give opium to Grandpa, opium will kill Grandpa. 
126. Emperor Karl (=Charles) couldn't chew caraway-seeds, but cake-crumbs he could chomp. 
127. A miller's girl has a poppy-seed-dumpling drawer and a sewing-needle drawer as well. German: Ein Müllermädchen hat eine Mehlnudellade und eine Nähnadellade auch. 
128. Little children cannot crack cherry stones. 
129. The wannton fish-sinner Franz was impudently catching fat five-finger fish before the river-fall. 
130. Smoked salmon with leek rice. 
131. There aren't so many days in the year as the fox has hair on his tail. German: Es gibt nicht so viele Tage im Jahr, wie der Fuchs am Schwanz hat Haare. 
132. The ladies in Baden-Baden (a town in Germany) bathe frequently. (They) wash the Baden-Baden Gentlemen with (them). 
133. On the board for smoked ham lies a piece of smoked ham. German: Auf einem Speckbrett liegt ein Stück (Bröckerl) Speck 
134. Thrilling: foolish Spanish peeking-toms are stretching thrilling Spanish Fools. 
135. Snails are shocked when they lick other snails because for many snails it is shocking that for some snails snails are not tasty. 
136. Milk bucket (made of wood), German: Milchkessel (aus Holz). 
137. If we wash-women knew where to find warm water, we wash-women would wash white laundry. German: Wenn wir Waschweiber wüssten wo warmes Wasser wäre, würden wir Waschweiber weiße Wäsche waschen. 
138. He is eating an apple, she an orange. 
139. You are also comming down? German: Kommst du eh auch hinunter? 
140. The cutlery ordered too late. German:Das Besteck zu spät bestellt 
141. Twelve muttering speakers say "you" to twelve muttering speakers, which always say "you". 
142. Between Illmitz and Apetlon (2 places in the Burgenland) hang two double-pointed plums. Wo can name the two duoble-pointed plums is a good man. German: Zwischen Illmitz und Apetlon (2 Ortschaften im Burgenland) hängen zwei zweigespitzte Pflaumen. Wer die zwei zweigespitzten Pflaumen nennen kann, der ist ein braver Mann. 
143. In Rheinfelden under the right bridge over the river Rhein a rough liver of a roe deer is lying. 
144. The woodpecker, sparrow, stork and sparrowhawk jumped post-haste with a screech down the steep path. 
145. Brackish-water fishermen are called brackish-water fishermen because brackish-water fishermen fish in brackish-water fish in brackish-water. 
146. At the hairdresser: "Hello, Carl." "How do you do, Carl?" "Fine, Carl." "Bald, Carl?" "Yes, Carl, bald." 
147. The wine barrel that Mrs. Weber emptied, destroyed her liver measurements. 
148. A well-roasted goose eaten with a golden fork is a good gift from God. 
149. The sparrow walks early and late among spinach. 
150. A very hard-to-say-fast saying is a saying to be said fast, a only hard-to-say-fast saying is called a saying to be said fast. 
151. In all traps of St. Gallen all are babbling/mumbling: "Everybody likes the traps of St. Gallen in which all are babbling/mumbling." 
152. The dentist is pulling teeth with the dentist's pliers in the dentist's room. 
153. Gudrun's turkey is resting well. Well resting is Gudrun's turkey. 
154. John is splitting hard wood behind the high house. 
155. Two men that load shop blinds in front of a chocolate shop blind, invite shop-blind girls to dinner. 
156. Conversation in a store: (Good) morning! Morning! Do you have plaster? Plaster? We'll have Plaster tomorrow. Tomorrow? Mornig! Morning! 
157. You have got to chew your bread well,
     so that you excrements get really brown. 
158. New think you have thought, because thinking thoughts is thoughless thinking. Wenn you think you think then you only think you think, but think you never do. 
159. Russian Russian are sliding down Russian slides the Russian way. 
160. A boxer of the champions league. Boxed himself into a mess of goo. And from the piled up mess of goo proudly rose the champion of the league! 
161. The cat ate the porc-belly, now it can't say meow! 
162. Twenty squashed plums and twenty squasched plums are forty squashed plums. 
163. The lifesaver is not digusted by anything, he bites into the maggot 
164. Toni says to Toni: "Toni go down!". Toni doesn't go down so Toni hits Toni down. German: Der Toni sagt zum Toni: "Toni, geh hinunter!" Der Toni geht nicht hinunter, darum haut der Toni den Toni um. 
165. Pug-dachshund-greyhound-poodle (a nonsense dog) 
166. If your dachshund calls my dachshund a dachhund again, your dachshund will be slapped so hard by my dachshund that he will not be able to say "dachshund" anymore. 
167. The frog-researching frog researcher is studying frog-reasearching frog research. 
168. The suitcase in the sleeping waggon lay heavy on his tail (?). 
169. Narrow-gauge railway tracks are narrower than wide-gauge railway tracks. 
170. I saw a pearl cushion in the window. 
171. If crickets grill crickets for crickets then crickets grill crickets for crickets! 
172. Today Hans will be coming home. Lisa is happy. Whether he comes by way of Oberammergau, Or whether he comes by way of Unterammergau, Or whether he comes at all, Is not certain. 
173. 60 Czech chemist bosses chase chaste chinese monks into shallow lakes used for extinguishing fires. 
174. On seven seal-cliffs seven clans of seals are sitting, which are nudging each other in the ribs until they tip over the cliffs. 
175. Czech Gucci handbags 
176. Ten goats pull ten hundred-weights of cement to the dentist to cement broken teeth. 
177. What a badly entitled bequest spawns from weak memory. 
178. How fortunate that God cast the bells. 
179. The whiskey mixer mixes whiskey with the whiskey mixer. With the whiskey mixer the whiskey mixer mixes whiskey. 
180. This is a log, a spliced log, A well-spliced spliced log. And this well-spliced spliced log belongs to Mrs. Scheitschleißer, and Mrs. Scheitschleißer is sitting behind the house and splicing logs. 
181. Sticking in my pot set is potato fritter fat! 
182. Those that will catch those that have stolen the geese will be rewarded. 
183. I'm standing in the rain and waiting for you. I'm waiting in the rain an like you. 
184. 333 horsemen rode 333 times round the large round Rastenburger town hall. 
185. Max if you like wax masks then make wax masks! 
186. The airport sparrow landed on the airport. On the airport the airport sparrow landed. 
187. Itty-bitty cats vomit itty-bitty vomit. Itty-bitty vomit is vomited by itty-bitty cats. 
188. Daughter of the manufacturer of Constantinoplan bag-pipe pipes 
189. I ordered the cutlery too late. German:Ich habe zu spät das Besteck bestellt. 
190. In thick spruce thicket thick spruces are diligently nodding. 
191. Between two sharp rocks two hissing hiss-snakes where sitting and hissing. 
192. Don't ring this bell, this bell doesn't ring. Ring this bell, this bell rings. German: Läuten Sie nicht an dieser Klingel, diese Klingel läutet nicht, läuten Sie an dieser Klingel, diese Klingel läutet. 
193. I have also almost stopped it! German: Ich habe es auch schon fast gelassen. 
194. Between "or" and "and" and "and" and "and" and "and" and "or" there is always a space. 
195. Behind Hermann Hanne´s house a hundred shirts are hanging out. A hundred shirts are hanging out behind Hermann Hanne´s house. 
196. This is a log. This is a log. A finely spliced log sent by Miss Meissner from Neisse and she lets say quite finely, that her husband is a busy log-splicer, who at night - before eating or biting anything - would have spliced a lot of logs. 
197. The brushes with the black bristles brush better than the brushes with the white bristles. 
198. The cats are scratching in the litterbox. In the litterbox the cats are scraching. 
199. Seldom I eat vinegar; when I eat vinegar, I eat vinegar with salad. 
200. When after Greeks creep Greeks, Greeks creep after Greeks. 
201. When rumballs roll around rumballs, rumballs roll around rumballs. 
202. Four multiplied by four five times is more than five multiplied by five four times. 
203. All Hessians are criminals, all steal ashtrays. When they don't steal ashtrays, they are bad (dangerous) knife fighters. 
204. The priest of Bschlabs (village in Tyrol) has ordered knife and fork for smoked ham too late on Pentecost. German: Der Pfarrer von Bschlabs (Ort in Tirol) hat zu Pfingsten das Speckbesteck zu spät bestellt. 
205. Ten goats pulled ten hundredweight to the zoo. 
206. Twenty dwarfs were demonstrating handstands, ten in the closet, ten on the sandy beach. 
207. In the whole round there was nothing but round dogs. 
208. Seven snowshovelers shovel seven shovels full of snow. 
209. With no bran and no germ, no small grain can germinate. 
210. With no bran and no germ, the small child can barely chew grain. 
211. Small violet flannel rags 
212. On the love-trip the giant (of body) said "rub it Lisa" and she rubbed it silently. 
213. Six Saxonian drinkers pay ten Czech bar bills. 
214. Here you have a log - a well-spliced spliced log from Mrs. Weißen from Meißen who wants you to know that her husband, Mr. Weißen, is the best log slicer in all of Meißen. He hasn't eaten a bite yet, but already spliced and split a whole heap of logs. 
215. Wife of deputy of the captain of the Danube steamboat company 
216. No small child can split a small cherry stone for a small child. German: Kein kleines Kind kann keinem kleinen Kind einen kleinen Kirschkern klein klieben (=spalten). 
217. Two slimy snakes slink between two rocks and hiss. 
218. At the postoffice things are packed and sorted. 
219. An ironing board remains an ironing board. 
220. Ten shaggy gypsies are draging ten hundredweights of cement over to the fence. 
221. When the (Mercedes-) Benz brakes the Benz brake lights light up. 
222. Maamauerbaabambeler is a club in Seligenstadt in Hessen. It literally means "the people who sit on the river Main and let their legs dangle down the wall". 
223. Children come in, here inside there are more children. German: Kinder kommt herein hier drinnen sind noch mehr Kinder da. 
224. In a spruce thicket finks are diligently picking. 
225. I can come, I will come, but I hardly think I can come. German: Wenn ich kommen kann, komm ich, aber ich meine, ich kann kaum kommen. 
226. The night watchman is tooting. And when he has tooted enough, he puts his tooter back into the tooter-box. 
227. She placed the Czech matchbox on the table. ... 
228. Critical toads don't chew any concrete croquettes. 
229. A car drove through Gossensaß (village in South Tyrol). through the long Sossengass ("sauce-lane") until the whole mud of the street poured over the passengers. The street was actually called Lettengasse (Letten=Schlamm=Mud). 
230. A car drove through the Gossensaß (village in South Tyrol). and came into the Sossengass ("sauce-lane") so that the whole mud of the street poured over the passengers. 
231. The cat steps on the stairs until they are bent. 
232. Our caretaker, his name is "Alues Maus". Most of the time he lives under the roof and some say he steals. 
233. A black man with a gazelle never hesitates in the rain. 
234. Who knows nothing and knows that he knows nothing knows more than who knows nothing and doesn't know he knows nothing. 
235. Mariechen says to Mariechen, let me smell Mariechen, so Mariechen let Mariechen smell. 
236. When seals crawl behind seals, seals crawl after seals. 
237. The rattlesnakes rattled until their rattles sounded listless. 
238. The stupid Doffels The fat stupid Doffel carried the thin stupid Doffel through the deep thick village dirt. Whereupon the thin stupid Doffel thanked the fat stupid Doffel that the fat stupid Doffel carried the thin stupid Doffel through the deep thick village dirt. 
239. The wax mask maker makes wax masks out of wax mask wax. 
240. Who is minimally immune to aluminum has aluminum minimal immunity. Who has aluminum minimal immunity is minimaly immune to aluminum. 
241. Who uses "use" without "to" need not use use at all. 
242. Allergic Algerians, Algerian allergic (people). 
243. The mail is loaded with parcels. 
244. Fat nieces are composing poetry in thick spruce thicket, ... 
245. Der Pope ordered the fork and knife in Spietz to late. 
246. This night, he said, said Hans, said Mary: If he is coming by the way of Oberammergau, or else by the way of Unterammergau, or else not at all, you never know. 
247. The Swiss welder is sweating and welding. The Swiss sweater is welding and swaeting. Sweating, the Swiss welder is welding. 
248. The cat hat vomited in the kitchen cupboard. 
249. Two squashed plums and two plums squashed are four squashed plums. 
250. The tourist is happy when he is on a tour and is constantly eating. 
251. The Cottbus mail coach driver is cleaning the mail box of the Cottbus mail coach with Cottbus mail coach box paste. 
252. The lieutenant of Leuthen ordered his people not to ring before the lieutenant of Leuthen ordered his people to ring. 
253. Knife and fork for smoked ham ordered too late are knife and fork for ham that have been ordered too late. 
254. The chaplain is pastin cardboard posters. 
255. Two swallows are twittering between two plum branches, ... 
256. I wish you as many good days in the year as the fox has hair on the brush (tail). 
257. In Ulm and around Ulm and roundabout Ulm. 
258. A plucked squirrel tail in sulfuric acid. 
259. Mr and Mrs Lücke were walking over a bridge. When a mosquito came and stung Mrs Lücke in the back of the neck. Then Mr Lücke took his crutch and hit Mrs Lücke in the back of the neck. And therefor Mrs Lücke, with the mosquito and the crutch in the back of the neck, fell over dead. 
260. Few know how much one must know to know how little one knows. 
261. That the "that", that is written with "ß" is not the "that", that is written with "s", that certainly is true. 
262. Wax mask, change of measurement ... 
263. We Vienese washerwomen want to wash white laundry, if we knew where warm water is. Warm watter we know, white laundry we wash. 
264. In a chocolate store store girls are unloading chocolate. ... 
265. Don't ring this bell, this bell won't ring. Ring (on) this bell, this bell will ring. 
266. Fisher's errand boy is fishing fresh fish, fresh fish are fished by Fisher's errand boy. 
267. My father is called Deer. 
268. A Worm is sitting on a tower, with an umbrella in his arm. A storm comes up, throws the worm with the umbrella in his arm from the tower. 
269. The shining of the moon already seemed nice. 
270. Red cabbage stays red cabbage, loaf of bread stays loaf of bread, wedding dress stays wedding dress. 
271. There lies a lump of lead nearby Blaubeueren. Nearby Nlaubeueren lies a lump of lead. 
272. Tailor's scissors cut sharp. Sharp cut tailor's scissors. 
273. Never think you think, because when you think you think you don't think, you only think you think, because the thinking of thoughts is thoughless thinking. 
274. Bismarck bit Marc until Marc bit Bismarck! 
275. When flies fly behind flies flies are flying after flies. 
276. Under a spruce root I heard a gnome farting. 
277. Ten tame goats pulled ten hundredweights of sugar to the train of Zittau. 
278. A fat lady wanted to get through the thick dirt. Whereupon the fat lady asked the fat servant if the fat servant would carry the fat lady through the thick dirt. Then then fat servant carried the fat lady through the thick dirt, whereupon the fat lady thanked the fat servant for carrying the fat lady through the thick dirt. 
279. Unfortunately he sang lots of loud songs to the lute. 
280. Why are you looking so stubborn boy, were you in the beer bar? 
281. Donkeys don't eat nettles. Nettles don't eat donkeys! 
282. The Spanish adore exciting games. 
283. When the pool attendants of Baden-Baden (German city) swim, then the people of Baden-Baden also swim. 
284. Because godfathers asked for the roast, we roasted turkey for the godfathers. Could offer turkey-roast to the godfathers, because we had roasted turkey - like the godfathers had requested. 
285. Who digs a pit for other, has a pit-digging device. 
286. How much spawn would such an amphibian easily spawn, if an amphibian would spawn spawn. 
287. Do you know that the "the" is the most used word in the sentence? 
288. I'm eating meatballs. Suddenly it knocks. I look, gape and wonder. Suddenly it (the door) opens. And who is standing there? It's me. 
289. New pond fish for the native fishpond. 
290. pale flat chest 
291. Is there a lightning in the middle of Zurich? German: Blitzt es mitten in Zürich?  
292. Some sponges for make-up swim some sponges for make-up don't swim. 
293. Rowboat, bread with butter, ... 
294. Grandma, let me play La Paloma again. German: Oma lass mich noch mal La Paloma laufen lassen. 
295. In Schwyz you presently have sunshine, and shoudn’t it shine in Schwyz for now, it will shine for some time at Brunnen. Schwyz is the capital of the Canton Schwyz. Brunnen is another Swiss town opposite to Schwyz, separated by the Rigi. 
296. Freshly laquered burnished painted box. 
297. Ten shaggy gypsies drag 10 hundredweight of sugar to the fence. 
298. Tomorrow my butcher will have to butcher my skinny sow with my dull knife. German: Morgen muss mein Metzger mit meinem stumpfen Messer meine magere Sau schlachten. 
299. The cheese cake pan in the small kitchen cupbard. German: Das Käsekuchenblech im Küchenkästchen. 
300. Fear of fruit flesh leads to flight from fruit flesh. 
301. Stanislaus dislikes the sausage in the borscht. The sturgeon in the borscht doesn't matter to Stanislaus. 
302. Three round raw tubes and three round raw deer livers teach people to talk the right way. German: Drei runde rohe Röhrchen und drei runde ruhe Rehleber lehren Leuten recht reden. 
303. Freshly picked fruit the fruit picker picks fresh. The fruit picker picks freshly picked fruit. 
 


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