Native German speakers - does "Ich ein berliner" mean "I am a donut"?

Question

Native German speakers - does "Ich ein berliner" mean "I am a donut"?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Kennedy said,"Ich bin ein Berliner."To be correct in his language he should have said,"Ich bin Berliner."At that time in 1963,ein Berliner was a pastry.So yes,Kennedy did say he was a donut.But he nevertheless delivered a famous and inspiring speech.The crowd listening to him knew what he meant.Germans had not gotten so excited about a politician giving a speech since Adolf Hitler.

Answer 3

it does. like hamburger/ hamburg, frankfurter/frankfurt, wiener/vienna, cologne/"eau de" cologne...

....hm? was that too hard to understand? these are all cities and certain food is named after them. well except for cologne which is a perfume.

Answer 4

You are funny.

"I'm a Frankfurter" also does not mean "I'm a sausage".

It simply means that this person is living in Berlin (or Frankfurt or elsewhere).

And a Berliner is jellyfilled without the typical hole in the middle and tastes alot better than a donut.

Answer 5

That's a Berliner

http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=ht...

but in Berlin it's called Pfannkuchen. So in Berlin a Berliner is an inhabitant of Berlin...but if Kennedy would have said that in another town hw would have been a doughnut  or even a bismarck!!! as you also can translate it!

http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de...

Think a Berliner is more a Bismarck:

http://www.kitchenkrafts.com/product.asp...

so good that Kennedy didn't say 'I am a Bismarck!!;-)

Answer 6

In this case he meant that he sees himself as a citizen of Berlin.

Try asking for a Berliner in a bakery in Berlin and you might get some interesting response. They call it Pfannkuchen.

Answer 7

yes, but a Berliner is also an inhabitant of Berlin.

Answer 8

I think they're trying to say "I'm a Berliner."

Answer 9

Yes it does. Kennedy was quite the donut.

Answer 10

you meant "Ich bin ein Berliner" and yes, it does.  A Berliner is kinda like a jelly filled doughnut.

Answer 11

"Ich bin ein Berliner" means just as much as "Ich bin ein New Yorker" !!!!

Answer 12

Nobody in berlin had the idea that Kennedy was talking about a donout. And jelly donout are called "pfannkuchen" in berlin

he used the article "ein" because he wasn't a legal citizen of berlibn

he wanted to say "I am one of you"