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  2. German honorifics - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Mueller–Weiss syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Mueller–Weiss syndrome, also known as Mueller–Weiss disease, is a rare [2] idiopathic degenerative disease of the adult navicular bone characterized by progressive collapse and fragmentation, leading to mid- and hindfoot pain and deformity. [3] [1] It is most commonly seen in females, ages 40–60. [4]

  5. List of syndromes - Wikipedia

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    Malformative syndrome; Mallory–Weiss syndrome; Malnutrition–inflammation complex; Malouf syndrome; Malpuech facial clefting syndrome; Management of chronic headaches; Manning criteria; Marchiafava–Bignami disease; Marden–Walker syndrome; Mare reproductive loss syndrome; Marfan syndrome; Marfanoid–progeroid–lipodystrophy syndrome ...

  6. List of German abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. ß - Wikipedia

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    By the late 1400s, the choice of spelling between sz and ss was usually based on the sound's position in the word rather than etymology: sz ( ſz ) tended to be used in word final position: uſz (Middle High German: ûz, German: aus), -nüſz (Middle High German: -nüss(e), German: -nis); ss ( ſſ ) tended to be used when the sound occurred ...

  8. Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

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    Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. It is a loanword from German.

  9. Weiss - Wikipedia

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    Weiss Amphitheater, a caldera in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica; Weiss Hall, a dormitory of Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on the National Register of Historic Places; Weiss, a fictional character in the light novel series The Saga of Tanya the Evil; Weiss Schnee, a fictional character in the anime series RWBY