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In special cases, German compounds are hyphenated, as in US-Botschaft ‚US embassy‘, or 100-prozentig ‚with a 100 percent‘. In addition, there is the grammatical feature of the Fugen-"s" : certain compounds introduce an "s" between the noun stems, historically marking the genitive case of the first noun (cf. iḍāfah ), but it occurs ...
Jenny Erpenbeck's novel 'Kairos' clocks a romance between a man of 58 and a 19-year-old woman in the dying years of East Germany. That's not even the interesting part.
Fex (stylized as FEX) is a German new wave band based and formed in Kiel in 1983. They are best known for the song "Subways of Your Mind", also known as "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet", the subject of a 17-year-long internet search to identify the song title and original artist. [2] [3] [4] [5]
Jenny Erpenbeck (German pronunciation: [ˈdʒɛni ˈɛʁpm̩bɛk]; born 12 March 1967) [1] is a German writer and opera director. She won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The End of Days [ 2 ] and the 2024 International Booker Prize for Kairos .
German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final years ...
Kairos is a 2021 novel by German author Jenny Erpenbeck.It received Germany's Uwe Johnson Prize in 2022. [1] The English translation, by Michael Hofmann, published in the U.S. by New Directions and in the U.K. by Granta Books, was shortlisted for the U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2023 [2] and won the International Booker Prize in 2024.
German orthography uses "closed" compounds, concatenating nouns to form one long word. This is unlike most English compounds, which are separated using spaces or hyphens. Strictly speaking, it is made up of two words, because a hyphen at the end of a word is used to show that the word will end in the same way as the following.
In modern German, the Old and Middle High German z is now represented by either ss , ß , or, if there are no related forms in which [s] occurs intervocalically, with s : messen (Middle High German: mezzen), Straße (Middle High German: strâze), and was (Middle High German: waz). [29]