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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, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...
The letter-name Eszett combines the names of the letters of s (Es) and z (Zett) in German. The character's Unicode names in English are double s, [1] sharp s [2] and eszett. [2] The Eszett letter is currently used only in German, and can be typographically replaced with the double-s digraph ss , if the ß-character is unavailable.
Denglisch (German pronunciation: [ˈdɛŋlɪʃ] ⓘ) is a term describing the increased use of anglicisms and pseudo-anglicisms in the German language. It is a portmanteau of the German words Deutsch (German) and Englisch. The term is first recorded from 1965. [1] The word has been adopted in English in an anglicized form as Denglish, recorded ...
In 1964, Petula Clark recorded the English rendition Thank you, which was released as a single in the UK. "Danke für diesen guten Morgen" has been included in the hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch as EG 334. [1] "Danke" has been called the best-known German sacred song, according to Jörg Döring who analyzed its rhetoric. [1]
German verbs may be classified as either weak, with a dental consonant inflection, or strong, showing a vowel gradation ().Both of these are regular systems. Most verbs of both types are regular, though various subgroups and anomalies do arise; however, textbooks for learners often class all strong verbs as irregular.
Sign greeting visitors to Nordhastedt, Schleswig-Holstein.. 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.
Logo in 2017 Vollständiges Orthographisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, first edition by Konrad Duden (1880). The Duden (German pronunciation: ⓘ) [1] [2] is a dictionary of the Standard High German language, first published by Konrad Duden in 1880, and later by Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, which was merged into Cornelsen Verlag in 2022.