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abdrucken - to print; abdrängen - to push away; abdrücken - to fire/squeeze trigger; abdunkeln - to dim; abebben - to fade away; Abend - evening; Abendbrot - supper; Abenddämmerung - dusk/twilight; Abendgymnasium - evening school; Abendkleid - evening dress; Abendlich - evening; Abendmahl - Holy Communion; Abendprogramm - evening programme ...
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
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 ...
Pages in category "German words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 395 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
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Words for objects without obvious masculine or feminine characteristics like 'bridge' or 'rock' can be masculine, feminine, or neuter. German nouns are declined (change form) depending on their grammatical case (their function in a sentence) and whether they are singular or plural. German has four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive.
German words which come from Latin words with c before e, i, y, ae, oe are usually pronounced with (/ts/) and spelled with z. The letter q in German only ever appears in the sequence qu (/kv/), with the exception of loanwords, e.g., Coq au vin or Qigong (which is also written Chigong). The letter x (Ix, /ɪks/) occurs almost exclusively in ...