The Illustrated A-Z of Berlinerisch: E

by Claire Webster

Eierpampe – mixture of sand or mud with water that kids make when they’re playing (lit. “egg goop”)

E also stands for:

eenmal (einmal) – once.
Einjemachte, das – money in reserves, from Eingemachte meaning preserves or conserves.
einfeif’n – to eat, short for hinein pfeifen, colloquial for “sucking in” (food – or even drugs).
etepetete – prim and proper.

The Illustrated A-Z of Berlinerisch is a guide to the particular brand of German spoken in the country’s capital. One of our native Berliner helper elves describes the dialect as

http://www.uberlin.co.uk/tag/daily-deutsch/