The 27th edition of the Duden, the dictionary considered the ultimate arbiter of the German language is out and the book contains 5,000 new additions to the Deutsche vocabulary, reports the German ...

German may be the most widely spoken language in the European Union, but let's be honest - it's just downright funny ...

A singular German word overflowing with length and precision can flummox an English speaker: from its number of letters to its complex meaning. In the age of COVID-19, more than 1,200 words in German ...

There is a long list of long German words. Sometimes, they even show up in the real world. The longest word in the German language—the 63-letter-long ...

To learn more about Germany, it helps to understand the country's nomenclature. German, unlike the neighboring Romance languages, is famously able to create compound words with ease. It’s the origin ...

German is the most widely spoken native language in the EU, with 120 million "speakers" worldwide and approximately 5.3 million words. However, it still lacks a few terms from other languages that ...

The pandemic has changed how people talk and write. In English, dictionaries have noted a few dozen new entries and revisions: social distancing, frontliner, super-spreader, "Zoom" as a verb. But in ...

To most people, Yiddish and German are closely related. The languages share many root words and grammatical structures, and most speakers of one language can at least understand an individual speaking ...

Some people collect stamps, or coins, or memorabilia. I have a slightly odder collection. I love to collect foreign words that have no exact equivalent in English The simplest reason for this is that ...

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