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As joking about German words works incredibly well in English, here's the original:

There you go. Now you can be sure that the joke's just as funny as originally intended.

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do you say "jauntily"? Kecklich?

[–] fylkenny@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

It's also keck. You can say "Die Kinder schauen keck hinter dem Busch hervor."

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

-Lich is a cognate to -ly, but more in the friendly or manly sense. German adjectives can generally be used as adverbs, just without declining them (changing the ending). -Weise is also used for adverbs only, but using that too often outs you as a non native speaker (from a non native speaker, studying to be a German teacher)