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How to say "John" in Europe (i.redd.it)

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[–] brennesel@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it's the same in German. There are many different forms. And it's interesting that even the spelling is often identical.

In German, there are the following variants: Johann, Johannes, Jan, Yannick, Jens, Hans, Hänsel (old form, known from the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel"), Hannes and Henning.

And the German biblical name is Johannes, too.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

Oh right I completely forgot about Hannes, very common here too. Honestly there must be more variants I straight up forgot.

Hell not all of them are male names even. There's Johanna too.