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It includes the F.F.1 list with 1,500 high-frequency words, completed by a later F.F.2 list with 1,700 mid-frequency words, and the most used syntax rules. [11] It is claimed that 70 grammatical words constitute 50% of the communicatives sentence, [12] [13] while 3,680 words make about 95~98% of coverage. [14] A list of 3,000 frequent words is ...
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
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All German nouns are capitalized. [1] German is the only major language to capitalize its nouns. This was also done in the Danish language until 1948 and sometimes in (New) Latin, while Early Modern English showed tendencies towards noun capitalization. [citation needed] [a] Capitalization is not restricted to nouns.
dreimal - 3 times; drigend - urgent; dringlichkeit - urgency; dringt - penetrates; drittel - one-third; drohend - threatening; drohenden - threatening; Druckverlust - pressure drop; drängt - urges; Dschihadismus - jihadism; Duell - duel; Dukaten - ducats; duldet nicht - does not tolerate; Dummheit - stupidity; Dunkel - darker; Dunkelziffer ...
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
The grammar of the German language is quite similar to that of the other Germanic languages.Although some features of German grammar, such as the formation of some of the verb forms, resemble those of English, German grammar differs from that of English in that it has, among other things, cases and gender in nouns and a strict verb-second word order in main clauses.
There are scores (maybe hundreds) of German nouns that end in -e and are masculine, BUT (1) most nouns in -e are feminine; (2) there is a key handful of masculine nouns in -e that are the ones for beginning students to remember (the rest are not core vocabulary words); and (3) the student is best-served to assume that a noun in -e is feminine.