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Like many languages, German has pronouns for both familiar (used with family members, intimate friends, and children) and polite forms of address. The polite equivalent of "you" is "Sie." Grammatically speaking, this is the 3rd-person-plural form, and, as a subject of a sentence, it always takes the 3rd-person-plural forms of verbs and ...
Some German words are used in English narrative to identify that the subject expressed is in German, e.g., Frau, Reich. As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts ...
Grüß Gott is, however, the shortened form of both (es) grüße dich Gott and its plural (es) grüße euch Gott "may God greet you". In addition, in Middle High German, the verb grüßen (grüezen) is used to mean not only "to greet" but also "to bless", so the greeting in fact preserves the original meaning "God bless you", [1] though even ...
The traditional honorifics of Miss, Mrs, Ms and Mr in English all indicate the binary gender of the individual. [3]Frauenknecht et al. at die Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt published a 2021 study in the Journal for EuroLinguistiX which rated 10 current human languages for only 10 job titles regarding "Gender-Inclusive Job Titles", since job titles can in most languages be used ...
"Auf Wiedersehen" (German for "Goodbye") is a song co-written by Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen and bassist Tom Petersson and first released on the band's 1978 album Heaven Tonight. [1] [2] It was also released as a single as the B-side of "Surrender".
Auf Wiedersehen (disambiguation), German for "Goodbye" Bye (disambiguation) Bye Bye (disambiguation) "Good Goodbye", a song by Linkin Park; Goodby (disambiguation) Goodbye Again (disambiguation) Goodbye Cruel World (disambiguation) Goodbye Girl (disambiguation) Goodbye to You (disambiguation) Never Can Say Goodbye (disambiguation)
This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u." This article covers standard ...
Moin, moi or mojn is a Low German, Frisian, High German (moin [moin] or Moin, [Moin]), [1] Danish (mojn) [2] (mòjn) greeting from East Frisia, Northern Germany, the eastern and northern Netherlands, Southern Jutland in Denmark and parts of Kashubia in northern Poland. The greeting is also used in Finnish. It means "hello" and, in some places ...