The answer to this seemingly innocuous question that comes up again and again involves the Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish diaspora nationalism, and a little-known protest in front of the Forverts ...

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 ...

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

The 27th edition of the Duden, the dictionary considered the ultimate arbiter of the German language is out and the book contains 5,000 new additions to the Deutsche vocabulary, reports the German ...

The pandemic has changed how people talk and write. In English, dictionaries have noted a few dozen new entries and revisions: social distancing, frontliner, super-spreader, "Zoom" as a verb. But in ...

Selected by Germany's youth as their trendiest slang of the year, the expression "das crazy" beat two other shortlisted favorites, "goonen" and "checkst du." Previously, when Germans wanted to point ...