diff --git a/bash-4.2-error-getpwd.patch b/bash-4.2-error-getpwd.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2e8a501f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bash-4.2-error-getpwd.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Backport of the corrected error message for a failing getpwd (bnc#895475)
+---
+ po/de.po |    2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- po/de.po
++++ po/de.po	2014-09-15 08:46:03.482235134 +0000
+@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ msgstr "Fehler beim Ermitteln der Termin
+ #: builtins/common.c:563
+ #, c-format
+ msgid "%s: error retrieving current directory: %s: %s\n"
+-msgstr "%s: Kann das nicht aktuelle Verzeichnis wiederfinden: %s: %s\n"
++msgstr "%s: Kann das aktuelle Verzeichnis nicht wiederfinden: %s: %s\n"
+ 
+ #: builtins/common.c:629 builtins/common.c:631
+ #, c-format
diff --git a/bash.changes b/bash.changes
index edaca38c..1bc1351b 100644
--- a/bash.changes
+++ b/bash.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Sep 15 08:52:13 UTC 2014 - werner@suse.de
+
+- Add patch bash-4.2-error-getpwd.patch
+  which is the backport of the corrected german error message for
+  a failing getpwd (bnc#895475)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jun 29 13:24:47 UTC 2014 - schwab@linux-m68k.org
 
diff --git a/bash.spec b/bash.spec
index c50f2e3c..e5533022 100644
--- a/bash.spec
+++ b/bash.spec
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ Patch27:        readline-6.2-xmalloc.dif
 Patch30:        readline-6.2-destdir.patch
 Patch31:        readline-6.2-rltrace.patch
 Patch40:        bash-4.1-bash.bashrc.dif
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM bnc#895475 -- locale de_DE.utf8 has wrong translations
+Patch41:        bash-4.2-error-getpwd.patch
 Patch42:        audit-patch
 Patch43:        audit-rl-patch
 Patch46:        man2html-no-timestamp.patch
@@ -312,6 +314,7 @@ done
 %patch26 -p0 -b .msgdy
 %patch31 -p0 -b .tmp
 %patch40 -p0 -b .bashrc
+%patch41 -p0 -b .errgetpwd
 %if 0%suse_version >= 1100
 %patch42 -p1 -b .audit
 %endif