Meanings
stale (of food and drink: having lost its taste through age, oxidation, etc.)
schales Bierstale beer
figurativedull, flat, insipid
Examples
GermanEnglish
Welche schalen Kommentare bekomme ich wohl zu diesem Satz?What kind of vapid comments will I get on this sentence?
Wie ekel, schal und flach und unersprießlich scheint mir das ganze Treiben dieser Welt!How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.