German has a lot of specific words for a lot of silly things, which sound ridiculous when translated literally into English. Here are ten of the best. The German language doesn’t mess around when it ...

German may be the most widely spoken language in the European Union, but let's be honest - it's just downright funny ...

What was once the longest word in the German language, a tongue consisting of many ridiculously lengthy words, is no more. The term ...

German is the most widely spoken native language in the EU, with 120 million "speakers" worldwide and approximately 5.3 million words. However, it still lacks a few terms from other languages that ...

The word ‘kaputt’ started being used in England during the First World War, and to this day maintains popularity as a slang word for ‘completely destroyed’. Why the English-speaking world adopted the ...

Other words like "bottomless" and "doer" also made the annual list voted by Germany's 10 to 20 year-olds. Continuing with the trend of incorporating English words into their daily lingo, the verb ...

The remarkable capacity of the English language to borrow and absorb, in regular usage, words from other languages – with words that originated in French and German before coming into common use in ...

Some 1.2 million young people in Germany have selected "cringe" as their favorite "in" word. Two other English words made it into the top three. "Cringe" has been selected as Germany's youth word of ...