I have heard the following dialogue in the TV series Dark:
- Da, wo ich herkomme, haben du und ich die gleiche Vergangenheit.
- Du hast sie doch nicht mehr alle.
What does "sie nicht mehr alle haben" mean in this sentence? "to be crazy" ?
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Sign up to join this communityI have heard the following dialogue in the TV series Dark:
What does "sie nicht mehr alle haben" mean in this sentence? "to be crazy" ?
The word order is
sie nicht mehr alle haben.
And the meaning is, as you mention, to be crazy. It might be a short or related form of
nicht mehr alle Tassen im Schrank haben (and many more variations of similar structure).
As you have already recognized, "Do you still have them all?" (Hast du sie noch alle?) is an idiom (are you crazy?) and therefore it does not really have any meaning. I would see "Do you still have all cups in the cupboard?" (Hast du noch alle Tassen im Schrank?) as origin, which would then refer to the cups, which in turn represent the thoughts of the person addressed, in the sense of "Do you still have all your thoughts together?" (Hast du deine Gedanken noch alle beisammen?)