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German
Etymology
Literally, “youth has no virtue”. Compare Dutch jeugd heeft geen deugd.
Pronunciation
Proverb
Jugend hat keine Tugend
- young people are less likely to follow a moral and virtuous lifestyle (e.g. because they find it hard to control their desires)
before 1885, Theodor Fontane, Private letter to Bernhard von Lepel, quoted in Fontane zum Vergnügen, Reclam, published 2011, page 103:»Jugend hat keine Tugend« ist falsch, wie fast alle Sprichwörter; wenn wer noch Tugend hat, so ist’s eben die Jugend.- “Youth has no virtue” is wrong, like almost all proverbs; if anyone still has virtue, it’s the young.