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by felix318 1022 days ago
Taxi, bar, hotel, restaurant, are very common. Maybe because of tourism?

I have no idea what “kaput” means…

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> I have no idea what “kaput” means…

"kaputt" is a rather colloquial German word for "broken".

My stance as a native German speaker: don't use it in written German, and avoid it in spoken German, too, since you will appear somewhat uneducated (remark: in spoken German, you typically use a more formal language register than in spoken English).

"kaput"

Possibly either "broken" (German) or perhaps "head" (Latin). Kaput is also an English borrow word from German. I've thrown in kaput/capit(a) for a laugh!