In French, to show that someone possesses something, you use their word for “of,” which is “de”: La plume de ma tante. Spanish works the same way: La venganza de Moctezuma. Italian, too: Buca di Beppo ...

Germany has borrowed more than 10,000 American words since 1990 — words like "sorry" and "lounge" and the suffix "-gate." It's a trend that... Angst In Germany Over Invasion Of American English It ...

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 ...

Country has lost its longest word following the repeal of a complex law. June 8, 2013— -- Call it linguistic precision engineering. The German language permits the creation of words of endless ...

Selected by Germany's youth as their trendiest slang of the year, the expression "das crazy" beat two other shortlisted favorites, "goonen" and "checkst du." Previously, when Germans wanted to point ...

It seems hardly a sentence is spoken in Berlin that doesn't have an American English word in it. One word that especially grates — and I confess to a certain bias, having learned German as a toddler ...