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Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away
German-language idioms (6 P) N. Nazi terminology (5 C, 90 P) P. Austrian political phrases (2 P) V. Vergangenheitsbewältigung (11 P) Pages in category "German words ...
Unlike English, the German language distinguishes adverbs which qualify verbs or adjectives from those which qualify whole sentences. For the latter case, many German adjectives form a special adverb form ending in -erweise, e.g. glücklicherweise "luckily", traurigerweise "sadly" (from Weise = way, manner).
9-year-old Elias and his father are going for a walk in Berlin. Suddenly, Elias loses sight of his father. This is the start of an adventurous journey through the capital. But Elias has a problem: He doesn't speak German! Fortunately, many people help him with his search and teach him basic lessons of the German language.
Developments and discoveries in German-speaking nations in science, scholarship, and classical music have led to German words for new concepts, which have been adopted into English: for example the words doppelgänger and angst in psychology. Discussion of German history and culture requires some German words.
Noun meanings and gender [1] [5] [note 2] Masculine (der) Male human beings and animals. but, for example: die männliche Giraffe (feminine meaning the male giraffe) Seasons, months and days of the week. [B 1] but: die Mittwoche (dated form for der Mittwoch) Compass points, words about winds and types of weather. but: die Windböe; das Wetter ...
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The only completely irregular verb in the language is sein (to be). There are more than 200 strong and irregular verbs, but just as in English, there is a gradual tendency for strong verbs to become weak. [1] As German is a Germanic language, the German verbs can be understood historically as a development of the Germanic verbs.