03-19-2006, 04:14 AM
Welcome back to Anonmon's Yiddish lessons! Today's root is "meshug", spelled mem-shin-gimmel in the Hebrew alphabet (the one you're really supposed to write Yiddish in).
This gives us two noun forms:
meshugener (n) - A crazy person. "meshugene" (with no r) is the female form
meshugas (n) - Craziness, crazy stuff. AFAIK, this word isn't gendered
And an adjective:
meshugah (adj) - Crazy, insane.
"Meshugener" and "meshugah" put the accent on the second "uh" syllable, but "meshugas" accents the first.
This gives us two noun forms:
meshugener (n) - A crazy person. "meshugene" (with no r) is the female form
meshugas (n) - Craziness, crazy stuff. AFAIK, this word isn't gendered
And an adjective:
meshugah (adj) - Crazy, insane.
"Meshugener" and "meshugah" put the accent on the second "uh" syllable, but "meshugas" accents the first.