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UloPe t1_ityjv65 wrote

Reply to comment by rtphokie in How Google Alerted Californians to an Earthquake Before It Hit by max-venum

Fun fact, „Hose“ means trousers in German.

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Zwets t1_itz9eb3 wrote

"Hosen" means trousers. A "Hose" would be a trouser, referring to a single pant-leg. As might be expected, needing to refer to 1 half bifurcated trousers doesn't come up in conversation often.

I think "puts on his pants 1 leg at a time, just like the rest of us" isn't used as a proverb in German. Though it could also be my German family members have never had cause to use their version of it.

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UloPe t1_iu08bbn wrote

That’s not correct. A „Hose“ is singular and means a complete garment. Hosen is plural and means more than one (except in Bavaria but that’s dialect and doesn’t count).

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