This word comes from English, but get ready for the German version - and it may not be what you're used to. If you have lived in Germany for any length of time, you will have noticed that locals tend ...

A new vote among German language learners revealed what foreigners find to be the most pleasant - and pragmatic - words auf Deutsch. Gemütlichkeit has been named “the most beautiful German word” of ...

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 ...

You might know more German than you think. These German terms have been borrowed by English-speakers - and some of them have been slightly adapted. Not surprisingly, they tend to be academic or ...

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 ...

Mark Twain, mocking "the awful German language," once wrote that "these things are not words, they are alphabetical processions." Which is both the point and delight of Schottenfreude: German Words ...

There is a long list of long German words. Sometimes, they even show up in the real world. The longest word in the German language—the 63-letter-long ...

"Emoji" is now a German word, as are "Darknet" and "Tablet." The official dictionary of the German language, the Duden, is getting an update, adding 5,000 new words taken from contemporary society.