| ▲ | lgrebe 4 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Jetzig reads funny in german something like "now-ish" Jetzt = now [1] German adjective suffix: -ig [2] The German suffix -ig attaches to nouns, verbs and even adverbs. Given this flexibility, it ranks among the most common adjective endings in German. You can use -ig words to express that something is a certain way or happens a certain way. traurig: sad, sadly wässrig: watery knackig: crunchy, crispy abhängig: dependent, addicted geizig: stingy [1] https://de.pons.com/übersetzung-2/deutsch-englisch/jetzt [2] https://www.lingoda.com/blog/en/german-adjective-suffixes/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | unwind 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The "-ig" suffix corresponds roughly to English's "-ish", I would say. As a native speaker of neither German nor English, though. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | rendx 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It doesn't merely sound like it, it is a German word, translating to current/present. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Onavo 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
It's a perfectly fine name. There's a billion dollar web framework company named Zeit which famously built https://now.sh | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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