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2. German honorifics - Wikipedia

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   for men (broadly equivalent to Mr., Lord and Sir in English). This word also means "master, owner, ruler, gentleman" and is also a form of address for the Christian God (English equivalent: Lord). If the surname is not used or known, e. g. when addressing a stranger in the street, the correct form is der Herr ("sir" or "gentleman").

3. List of German abbreviations - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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   English and German both are West Germanic languages, though their relationship has been obscured by the lexical influence of Old Norse and Norman French (as a consequence of the Norman conquest of England in 1066) on English as well as the High German consonant shift. In recent years, however, many English words have been borrowed directly from ...

5. Gender-neutral title - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. ß - Wikipedia

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   According to the orthography in use in German prior to the German orthography reform of 1996, ß was written to represent : word internally following a long vowel or diphthong: Straße, reißen; and; at the end of a syllable or before a consonant, so long as is the end of the word stem: muß, faßt, wäßrig. [10]: 176

7. Fräulein - Wikipedia

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   Fräulein (/ ˈ f r ɔɪ. l aɪ n / FROY-lyne, German: [ˈfʁɔʏlaɪn] ⓘ) is the German language honorific for unmarried women, comparable to Miss in English and Mademoiselle in French. Description

8. German name - Wikipedia

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   In West Low German parlance the ending "…sch(e)" is sometimes added to surnames of women, related to the standard High German adjective ending "…isch" (cognitive to English "…ish"), suffixed to nouns or adjectives indicating belonging / pertaining to, being of the kind described by the suffixed word: for example, de Smidtsche, is Ms ...

9. Wikipedia:German-English translation requests/Translation ...

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   Amt (Ämter): Translate as authority (authorities).This is a grouping of Gemeinden at a lower level than a Kreis.(see Amt (country subdivision))Bezirk: As part of a town or city, translate as borough; as an abbreviation of Regierungsbezirk, see below.