Impulse

In English, we say things like “the pres­i­dent annoys me”. Now, be hon­est — that’s not really true. Someone else can’t inflict annoy­ance upon you; you allow your­self to become annoyed in response to some­one. That’s why you can choose to ignore it (though in some spe­cific cases, it takes a lot of effort).
In German, we say “Ich ärgere mich über dem Präsident”. It’s a reflex­ive verb, thus, lit­ter­ally trans­lated, it means “I annoy myself about the pres­i­dent”.
Ain’t that the truth…
Update: Fixed the gram­mar… German may be cool, but it’s hard. Who ever heard of hav­ing to con­ju­gate nouns???