r/German

What is the significance of using the work krepieren when referring to a person's death? My understanding is that it is more often used for animals and not humans.

This comes out of a document from the 1940s/50s that I do not have permission to share. In it, the writer is referring to a group of people murdered in the holocaust and the writer choose the phrasing "elend krepiert." The writer was Jewish and so I do not believe they were being malicious toward those who died, I believe it was more to imply how horrendous their deaths were.

Am I interpreting that correctly? Or was krepieren maybe used more often in everyday language than I am assuming?

I am a married lesbian and I am starting to learn German. Sometimes in the United States I want to mentioned something about my wife but don't want to have to tell the person I am talking to that I am a lesbian. For example a sentence like "my partner is dropping off the car."

How do you do that in a language where everything is gendered? I think it must be that gay and lesbian people in German have figured out some way to not bring up they are gay, right?

Hallo zusammen

I can't find any good German content creators; Youtube only shows me English results no matter the language I type in, and I can't figure out how to make it show only German channels.

So I am asking if you guys know any good Youtubers that you watch, whether it be Gaming or Cooking or whatever

I wanna improve my listening comprehension, I've neglected it.