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’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 ...

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 ...

To speak German confidently, it’s helpful to know how to pronounce words correctly. German has lots of similar phonemes to English, which should help when pronouncing a lot of German words. A phoneme ...

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 ...

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 ...