Timeline for What does "Petze" mean?
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| Oct 12, 2015 at 5:17 | comment | added | Andy |
Tattle, tattler and tattletale are also common words for this
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| May 14, 2014 at 23:07 | comment | added | Voo | @Ben Maybe that's just me watching too many American movies, but "snitch" seems a more serious term than "Petze". E.g. a mafia boss calling someone a snitch sounds perfectly fine (and most likely has troublesome consequences for that person), but the boss calling him a "Petze" in German would sound completely off, even comical. It's really mostly associated with children and possibly jokingly between relatively close adults. | |
| May 14, 2014 at 16:06 | comment | added | user6288 | Yep. It's a snitch. That's the word. | |
| May 14, 2014 at 12:11 | comment | added | Kodama | @Zhenglei Yes, "Du bist eine Petze" would accuse you of having told on her. Instead of "Er petzte", it is more common to say "er hat gepetzt" to say he generally told sth. or "er hat mich verpetzt" to say he told on me. Simple past "Er petzte" is hardly ever used in conversation, especially with a colloquial word like this. | |
| May 14, 2014 at 12:06 | history | edited | Kodama | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 14, 2014 at 12:04 | vote | accept | Zhenglei | ||
| May 14, 2014 at 12:04 | comment | added | Zhenglei | So my daughter can say something like "Du bist eine Petze." or "Er petzte"? | |
| May 14, 2014 at 11:54 | history | answered | Kodama | CC BY-SA 3.0 |