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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 ...
"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 ".
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 ...
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)
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 ...
The English language lyrics were written by John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons.The best-known version of the song was recorded by English singer Vera Lynn.The story goes that Vera was on holiday in Switzerland and heard people singing the song in beer parlours, and when she got back she felt she had to record it, so found the music and had lyrics written.
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 ...
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 ...