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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 ...
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 ...
Wunderbar, a German expression used in English which means "wonderful" Wunderbar (bar), a queer bar in Syracuse, New York; Wunderbar (chocolate bar), a chocolate bar sold in Canada and Germany; Wunderbar Films, an Indian film production company
German adjectives come before the noun, as in English, and are usually not capitalized. However, as in French and other Indo-European languages , they are inflected when they come before a noun. (But, unlike in French, they are not inflected when used as predicative adjectives .)
German sentence structure is the structure to which the German language adheres. The basic sentence in German follows SVO word order. [1] Additionally, German, like all west Germanic languages except English, [note 1] uses V2 word order, though only in independent clauses. In dependent clauses, the finite verb is placed last.
" Deutschösterreich, du herrliches Land" ('German-Austria, Thou Wonderful Land') was the de facto national anthem of Austria, used from 1920 to 1929. Its lyrics were written by Chancellor Karl Renner in 1920, while the melody was composed by Wilhelm Kienzl.
"O mein Papa" is a nostalgic German song, originally as related by a young woman remembering her beloved, once-famous clown father. It was written by Swiss composer Paul Burkhard in 1939 for the musical Der schwarze Hecht [] (The Black Pike), reproduced in 1950 as Das Feuerwerk (The Firework) to a libretto by Erik Charell, Jürg Amstein, and Robert Gilbert.
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).