German has a lot of specific words for a lot of silly things, which sound ridiculous when translated literally into English. Here are ten of the best. The German language doesn’t mess around when it ...

German may be the most widely spoken language in the European Union, but let's be honest - it's just downright funny ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The remarkable capacity of the English language to borrow and absorb, in regular usage, words from other languages – with words that originated in French and German before coming into common use in ...

Maybe not exactly but one word that I have found that is particularily hard to say in a multitude of languages is the English word "squirrel". Eichhörnchen in German, Eekhoorn in Dutch. I am sure ...