05/16/2021 May 16, 2021. While some youth language may come and go, other "cool" terms date back hundreds of years in the German language. And many actually enter German vocabulary from other ...

Despite learning German for three years, and practising nearly every day, they still couldn't seem to retain more than 500 words. "I was hoping," they wrote, "you could give me a shortcut ...

But, as in all things, there's a German word that can capture the feeling. Sommerloch, which translates most literally to "Summer Hole," is a village in Germany's hilly and castle-strewn Bad ...

But in Germany, lexicographers at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language have compiled more than 1,200 new words related to the coronavirus pandemic. German's propensity for compounding ...

German usage has given this word a metaphorical connotation: "hanging on" or "freeloading." To the word Trittbrett, the author then adds Unsterblichkeit("immortality").