What does They were sitting in a tree. mean?

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Ich meine es lautete "in", aber es ist möglich, dass es "at the top" war und ich mich falsch daran erinnere, weil ich die Redewendung nicht kenne.

@polyglott33 and would you also answer my questions above please?

that's what came to my mind either, that's why i was confused. :-D
In a TV show 2 persons were gossip and one asked the other "guess who were sitting in a tree." (they were talking about 2 friends wich slept together) and Netflix translated this with "Rate wer zusammen rumgemacht hat." what means "Guess who were fooling around?". That confused me completly.

Meanwhile I found out that there's an old children's song "Sitting in a tree" about kissing. So I guess it's just a reference to this song. I thought it was a regular idiom. But now I know its not, 'cause you were as confused as me. :-P

@Yupjixyyy Thx for the picture. :)

Thanks for your correction and explanation. That helps me a lot. :)

PS: We have a similar song in german (also about a tree), but I didn't get the connection because of the foreign language. ;)

Wow, must be amazing to live in such a literally big city. Frankfurt has the nickname "Mainhatten" here in Germany because of the river Main and its bunch of skyscrapers, but in direct comparison to the original it's so ... ridiculous tiny. :P

Travelling in such a big and wide Country must be faszinating. So many different landscapes, climate conditions, people... I only visited some countries in Europe. UK, Spain, Italy, France..
In Paris I had the biggest problems to make myself understood (I don't speak French). It seemed to me the people in particular in the north of France don't "want" to understand you even if they do.
I remember a situation in a restaurant, I tried to explain to the waiter that I'm vegetarian. I tried it with german, english and with a french dictionary (also shown him the sentence in black and white). What I got in the end was an enormous plate with meat only. :-P It seemed to me that he wanted to punish me for daring to speak in another language than his beautyful and spectecular french with him. hahaha :-P

@Yupjixyyy
PS: I realized only now after scrolling through my profile that I answerd a question to German of you too... :-D
So may I ask since when you are learning German?

@Yupjixyyy
Omg, how disgusting... haha :-P who knows, perhaps he went to the same restaurant and got punished by the same waiter. lol
I made completely different experiences in Bordeaux too, which (with an "h", I remember ;)) is quite in the South, so I agree that the southern French are much more open and friendly to tourists. Maybe it's the mediterran climate or the near to Spain that makes them more balanced and relaxed like the most Southern Europeans.
I didn't really like the food aswell by the way - but the way they celebrate eating was kind of faszinating for me. A normal dinner can take hours and hours. I enjoyed that during my holidays.

Considering this short time your German is already pretty good. Must be a nightmare to learn all these tons of articles and genders, especially when the counterpart in English is so simple: just using "the", case closed!... Lucky me! haha :-P

And I'm pleased to hear that you like the sound. Normally we get that it's harsh, barking and commanding a lot. It's hard to imagine, how the own language may sound for a listener who doesn't speak it. I have to admit, I can't...:-P

@Yupjixyyy
PS: the first thing that comes to my mind everytime when I hear about Manhatten (and I can't do anything againt ist) is this movie: :D:D

@Yupjixyyy I wonder if JFK had the same thoughts when he said "Ich bin ein Berliner!"... XD

My Achilles' heel are prepositions (by, with, about, of...), I often don't know which one belongs to a special verb/noun and also adverbs, that can be translated in many different ways. "auch" in German can mean "too", "either", "even", "as well", "likewise", "also"... in German it's just "auch" and I often mess this up. So, thanks for your correction. :))

I already mentioned your wide-ranged vocabulary, but I wasn't certain, if that's for this purpose or just your usual way to write. :P I mostly understand the meaning of your answers in its entirety but indeed I had to look some words up to get the exact meaning. So yes, it's really helpful to enrich my vocabulary - thanks for that. :)

To understand English by listening is another issue sometimes. I normally have no problems to follow a podcast (if it's not about rocket sience) or informal clips or reviews on Youtube. While watching a movie I'm lost sometimes, especially when the actor is mumbling, has a heavy accent or is using slang and I just think "what the hell is he talking about?"
Same with song lyrics: my favorite genre is metalcore, so the vocalists are screaming and using gutterals a lot. To get into it I try to learn the lyrics and sing along... what also can be challenging (and silly) based on my music taste - so I do this only, when I'm sure nobody hears me. :P XD (footnote: no worries 'cause of my preference for metal music - I'm benign ;))

Oh, by the way, I followed your advice and registered to Hellotalk. :) But the experience of my first two chats was kind of sobering and weird. One guy tried to lure me to another platform/app to get my phone number for whatsoever and the other began to flirt after a while and I quitted when his posts started to run into a delicate direction.

@Yupjixyyy
PS: What a novel... Besides enjoying the chat I also take this as a good exercise for writing, therefore please excuse me for answering this voluminous and don't feel compelled to answer in novels too... ;)