N’eis – Local ice cream

by DremorraDawn

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  1. bonobomaster

    Explanation for the uninitiated:

    In Germany, ice cream is called “Eis”. Literally you would say “Eiscreme” but we say “Willst Du ein Eis? (Do you want ice cream?)”.

    The solo “N” is kind of a dialect / lazy pronunciation of “ein” as an indefinite article like your “a”.

    So you could say “Willste’n Eis (Wanna ice cream)” instead of “Möchtest / Willst Du ein Eis”.

    And that construct gives us a “funny” German version of nice = N’eis. Nice ice (cream)…

    🤓

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