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.

    • idiomaddict@feddit.de
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      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)