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What is the German way of saying "potato, potato"?
There are a couple of good answers already, I just want to add one from Saxonian dialect:
'rum wie 'num
It is dialact. 'rum is short for herum ("around"). I actually can't say what num ...
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What is the German way of saying "potato, potato"?
Maybe the intended meaning is
Wat den een'n sin Uhl, is den annern sin Nachtigall
= Plattdeutsch für: Was für den einen eine Eule ist, ist für den anderen eine Nachtigall.
You can express a similar ...
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