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Abbild - copy/reproduction; abbilden - to portray/depict; Abbildung - illustration; abbinden - to undo/untie; Abbitte - apology; abblasen - to call off; abblenden - to shade/screen; abblitzen - to be sent packing; abblocken - to block; abblättern - to flake off; abbrausen - to take a shower; abbrechen - abort; abbrechen - to break off ...
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 ...
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This list includes notable historic, standardized and common-use dictionaries of the German language. The beginnings of German dictionaries date back to a series of glossaries from the 8th century CE. The first comprehensive German dictionary, the Deutsches Wörterbuch (DWB), was begun by the Brothers Grimm in 1838. The Duden dictionary, begun ...
The word of the year (German: Wort des Jahres, pronounced [ˌvɔʁt dɛs ˈjaːʁəs] ⓘ) is an annual publication by the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, established in 1971 (on a regular basis since 1977). Each December, a German word or word group is named in a linguistic review of the year.
German literature (German: Deutschsprachige Literatur) comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany , Austria , the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium , Liechtenstein , Luxembourg , South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora .
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 ...
This list contains the names of persons (of any ethnicity or nationality) who wrote fiction, essays, or plays in the German language. It includes both living and deceased writers. Most of the medieval authors are alphabetized by their first name, not by their sobriquet