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    Wie sagt man „John“ in Europa?


    Wie sagt man „John“ in Europa?

    Von Battlefleet_Sol

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    1. franky07890 on

      We have John too in Holland (really, I know him). We call him “sjon/shon”
      Farmers say John Deere like: “Sjon dier” 😅

    2. HonestlyNotISIS on

      Everywhere apart from England is saying “John” totally wrong. They really need to work on their pronunciation!

    3. Nimradd on

      Uhm, we have «John» in Norway too. It’s pronounced similar, just not the «d» in the beginning.

    4. Truelz on

      In Danish we have Johan/Johannes (which is also what the Gospel of John use as a name) as well, and Hans, Jon, John…

    5. N4m3Surn4m3 on

      The title is completely wrong. It’s similar names with common roots that are translated as john.

    9. BasarMilesTeg on

      Czech Jan, but „short version“ and in spoken language is used Honza from german Hans. Nobody say Jan.

    10. SilyLavage on

      Welsh has lots of variants on John/Johannes, including Ieuan, Ifan, Ioan, Sion, and Ieuan.

    12. En_skald on

      We have at least Johan, John, Jon, Johannes, Jan, Janne, Johnny, Hans, Hannes and Ivan in Sweden as fairly common names. And I’m sure I still have missed a few.

    13. IhailtavaBanaani on

      If you’re talking about how it’s translated in the Bible then for Finnish it’s Johannes, not Juhana.

      For other uses it has a ton of variations, but Juhana is really one of the least common.

    14. Green_Detective_2096 on

      We have both John and Johan in Sweden, so I don’t really get this map.

    17. eti_erik on

      It’s not that easy, though… in Dutch, the gospel writer is Johannes. Traditionally lots of people were called Johannes in their passport, but went by Jan, Jannes, Han, Hans, Hannes, Johan.. Nowadays those formal names are not used much anymore so we still have first names like Jan (many of these are going out of fashion though), also Ivan, John, Giovanni… but we now consider them not related to Johannes anymore (although they definitely are in origin)

    18. SkoulErik on

      Denmark has John as well. Jens is maybe a bit more common, but John is a perfectly common name for people above 40.

    19. Fast-Visual on

      They are all different names, but they all descend from the Hebrew name Yohanan.

    21. cai_85 on

      Wales is definitely wrong. There isn’t a V in Welsh for a start. Ioan would be the closest probably, or Siôn.

    24. Herbacio on

      Fun fact in Portugal we have the surname „Eanes“ (like in the former president Ramalho Eanes) which basically means „son of João“

    25. sovereignlogik on

      God this sub is miserable.

      What’s with the comments?
      This was only going to be so accurate because names are slippery.

      Jesus…

    28. saddinosour on

      Yiannis is the nickname in Greece the actual birth name is Ioannis (Ιωάννης) pronounced ee-o-ahh-nis

    30. AirWolf231 on

      Its Ivan for Croatia, I have NEVER meet or heard anyone be called Jovan in Croatia. Hell, I know a guy with the Croatian version of the Hungarian version(Janoš) but no one with Jovan.

    31. TrolledBy1337 on

      I’ve never met a single Finn named Juhana, but Juhani and Joni are more common variants of John. 

    34. Miniblasan on

      To be honest, I am familiar with many Swedish men named Johan, Hans, Jan (as part of a double name like Jan-Erik, usually for farmers), Jens, and Jon.

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