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kaput (German spelling: kaputt), out-of-order, broken, dead; nix, from German nix, dialectal variant of nichts (nothing) Scheiße, an expression and euphemism meaning "shit", usually as an interjection when something goes amiss; Ur- (German prefix), original or prototypical; e.g. Ursprache, Urtext; verboten, prohibited, forbidden, banned. In ...
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Lee-ann Cordingley, a clinical sexologist and sex coach, suggests just practicing some racy words or phrases out loud when you’re alone so you can get more comfortable hearing yourself say them.
For many travelers, Germany is an incredibly beautiful country, with an incredibly difficult language. Regardless, German people are super friendly and willing to help teach common German phrases ...
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).
Austrian (but not German) nobility is forbidden to attach honorifics to themselves or demand them (but may attach them to family members). The equivalent of a Baron is called Freiherr (fem. Freifrau , fem. unmarried Freifräulein , which is rare, or its more usual abbreviation Freiin ), though some "Barone" exist with foreign (e. g. Russian ...
There are German borrowings and adaptations of other forms of speech too. Two examples:- 'Hopefully' (adv.) has now widely acquired, in English, a meaning essentially the same as 'hoffentlich' in German, a meaning which can be paraphrased as: 'it is to be hoped' [e.g. that something will or won't happen].
The expression grüß Gott (German pronunciation: [ɡʁyːs ɡɔt]; from grüß dich Gott, originally '(may) God bless (you)') [1] is a greeting, less often a farewell, in Southern Germany and Austria (more specifically the Upper German Sprachraum, especially in Bavaria, Franconia, Swabia, Austria, and South Tyrol).