lüften

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In recent months, wellness influencers on TikTok have taken to promoting the trend of “house burping,” or periodic window-opening. That’s prompted a flood of mocking response videos from Germans astounded that Americans claim to have just “discovered” lüften — and that they’re calling it house burping.

‘House burping’ is a cold reality in Germany. Americans are warming to it.