'Whatever' in German

"whatever" - are you looking for an equivalent to "i don't really care what you say" or "yea, yea, whatever you say" ? there would be different interpretations depending upon what "message" you want to send. can you be a little more specific ? hbg

Egal?

I'm looking for the kind of 'whatever' that says "I don't really care what you say."

"Egal" would be very close to that.
"Das ist mir egal" thus could be the answer to the other person.

A very good free dictionary is this one (to be found, btw, as well as others in the A2K-Portal :wink: ):
LEO

walter : the answer "whatever" is a pretty rude response to someone i would not want to listen to. the longer version would be "whatever you say, i really don't care, i'm tuning out) . its sometimes used by teenagers who do not care to listen to a "sermon" by their elders. i seem to recall that in hamburg people(longshoremen) would say to a longwinded speaker "sabbel morgen mehr", of course you had to be careful in its use ! i feel that comes pretty close to "whatever" . hbg ... i remember that an expression used in canada was "talk, talk, talk", but i have not heard that in a long time. hbg

Whatever
"Egal" is correct, but i don't think "was auch immer" isn't used by German speakers... What am i saying, i'm living in Germany and use it quite frequently.
P.S. And no, Hamburger, i'm not a bad person. I just use it, because i like how it sounds

Wurscht!

Dutch kids just started saying "whatever" - the english word, I mean ... I think. They've definitely adopted the word "duh", last year or so, quite massively.

I thought about that too nimh. "Whatever" seems to be untranslatable in Dutch. The thing that comes most close to it would be "ja, ja..." or "tuurlijk" (in an arrogant manner).

Or "ja, 's goed met jou." But that would be way too jokingly-friendly a translation for the rawther aggressive "whatever".

''t zal wel' could also be a translation.

Or there's putting your fingers in your ears and going, "I can't he-ear you, na-na-na-na-na-na!"

I actually hate it when people do that!

I also hated this one:

Wat je zegt ben je zelf,
Met je kont door de helft,
Met je kont (?) in het vuur,
Ben je morgen zuur.

Joe

Wurscht ("ist ['ischt'] mir Wurst') is a term from the Middle Ages, known only to senior citizens (or elder statesmen)

My secret identity has been revealed!

"das ist mir doch alles wurst", am i an ELDER STATESMAN now ? hbg

or as we used to say : " ik hev 'nen grooten kehr-di-an-nix". is that expression still used at all ? hbg

i berlin they (used to) say : "mir kann keener !"; in hamburg it was/is : "ji koehnt mi all tosomen". hbg