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  2. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Common German Phrases for Travelers - AOL

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    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 ...

  4. Category:German words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "German words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 395 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    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.

  6. Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia

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    The English language descends from Old English, the West Germanic language of the Anglo-Saxons. Most of its grammar, its core vocabulary and the most common words are Germanic. [1] However, the percentage of loans in everyday conversation varies by dialect and idiolect, even if English vocabulary at large has a greater Romance influence. [2 ...

  7. Verb–subject–object word order - Wikipedia

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    In linguistic typology, a verb–subject–object (VSO) language has its most typical sentences arrange their elements in that order, as in Ate Sam oranges (Sam ate oranges). VSO is the third-most common word order among the world's languages, [1] after SOV (as in Hindi and Japanese) and SVO (as in English and Mandarin Chinese).

  8. German adverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    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). In the following two example ...

  9. German verbs - Wikipedia

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    The only completely irregular verb in the language is sein (to be). There are more than 200 strong and irregular verbs, but just as in English, there is a gradual tendency for strong verbs to become weak. [1] As German is a Germanic language, the German verb can be understood historically as a development of the Germanic verb.

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