There’s something so satisfying about a good German word. As The Awl entertainingly demonstrated with their spot-on “There Oughta Be a German Word For This” column, German words somehow define complex ...

What was once the longest word in the German language, a tongue consisting of many ridiculously lengthy words, is no more. The term ...

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 ...

The Germans are famous for using long words used to describe hyper-specific, complex sentiments. For instance, the 26-letter word vergangenheitsbewaeltigung describes the inability to cope with the ...

Konrad Duden published his Vollständiges orthographisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (“Complete Orthographic Dictionary of the German Language”) way back in 1880. That was a brilliant stroke of ...

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 ...

If you want to show you are engaged in conversation in German, this is a great term to have up your sleeve while you are still getting to grips with the language. Stimmt is often used to affirm a ...

A lot has happened since the last Duden – the German dictionary – came out in 2017. And the 3,000 new words reflect that. But it's not just about the coronavirus pandemic. With words like Zahnfleisch ...

Other words like "bottomless" and "doer" also made the annual list voted by Germany's 10 to 20 year-olds. Continuing with the trend of incorporating English words into their daily lingo, the verb ...