"Sissi" und "Cry-baby" hören sich eher nach ,,Heulsuse" an, liege ich da falsch?

(,,Heulsuse" ist eine Person mit einer negativen Eigenschaft, ,,Heul' doch!" ist dagegen eine provozierende Aufforderung "to cry/scream", was man natürlich nur tut, wenn man eben ein ,,Weichei" oder eine ,,Heulsuse" ist.)

Hallo de-native, da liegst du ganz richtig. Somit passen die beiden Vorschläge doch ganz wunderbar für das angegebene Beispiel, oder?

Als weitere Option vielleicht noch "Stop whining"?

In the light of the previous comments...

agree with Thomas
It should be something more along the lines of Stop whining, stop whingeing, stop moaning or don't be such a cry-baby.

beaten by Richard - took too long to check my spelling of whingeing!

thanks a lot.
so i guess there is no translation that is closer to the original german expression, using the imperative. (?)

The only other one I can think of is:
Oh, go and take a long walk off a short pier
But I've always used it when someone has been driving me up the wall, so maybe nor really applicable here. Maybe you could create a new answer, like:
Oh, go away and cry until the bath is full
or something similar? ;o)

Well, if you just want to explain to someone what exactly the German expression means (literally translated) then you could say "Go on, cry!". But if you want to use the expression in a real life situation then I'd rather go for one of the suggestions above - they are what people would normally say and they bring across exactly the meaning you are looking for.

I'm not a native speaker, but apparently Richard and Lis are, so I would just trust them ;-)

I give up
for nor read NOT

if you were to simply say: "so, cry" I doubt whether anyone would misunderstand you.

Thanks Thomas! Couldn't have put it better myself. Nice weekend all.

@Lis: sometimes it's really frustratong, isn't it?! ;-)

What about the expression "cry me a river"? Does that mean something like "heul doch" or am I completely wrong here?

'Cry me a river' is best known as a song (I think), not as an expression in everyday conversation, at least in my experience.

I think we would normally just say something heavily sarcastic in a tone of mock sympathy, like 'Awwwwwwww!' or 'Poor baby!'

There's also the gesture of playing an imaginary violin, meaning sarcastically, Oh, this is such a sad story. But that's not quite the same.

Little brother to big brother: I just hurt my finger!

Big brother: Ahh, dudums

Just reading this old thread and the expression "ah dudums" (which I've never written or seen written) occurred to me. I haven't heard it in a while, but we used to say it all the time when I was a kid (I'm only 26...)

I'm pretty sure it's limited to use in just Britain, maybe even just England.

Sorry, meant to write it like that. Definitely no T at the end. Could be one M or two...

Seems to get at exactly what "Heul doch" is saying.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/... diddums - the correct spelling of #17/18's suggestion.

re #18: Ich kann allerdings nicht behaupten, das schon mal in echt gehört zu haben. Bubbs 'Cry me a river' kommt mir doch sehr viel idiomatischer vor.

"Cry Me a River" gibt es auch als Songtext ... ich komm' nur grad nicht auf den Interpreten ...

@22 Arthur Hamilton? Oder Julie London? Oder doch Justin Bieber? ;-)

War das nicht der andere Justin? Tsk, tsk - du bist offensichtlich keine Dreizehnjährige ;-)

Oh, Scheise ^^