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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a new word quantifying coolness on the block, and it’s been selected by Germany’s youth as their trendy word of the year: “Aura”. German dictionary publisher Langenscheidt made the ...

In the wake of nationwide and international protests against racism, Germany’s Green Party wants to change Article 3 of the nation’s Basic Law by removing “Rasse” – in English, “race” – from the text.