Dasselbe? Das Gleiche? It’s all the same to me!

Dasselbe? Das Gleiche? It’s all the same to me! Or is it?

Sometimes you want to say that things are ‘the same’ and you look it up in the dictionary and find thesetranslations: derselbe, dieselbe, dasselbe and more and also der Gleiche, die Gleiche, das Gleiche and more.

Looks bad enough to tear your hair out?
Actually, it looks worse than it is.

Let’s look at the two main words dasselbe, das Gleiche. Both mean the same, but there is a slight difference between them.

Dasselbe means it is the o...