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Fingerspitzengefühl [ˈfɪŋɐˌʃpɪtsənɡəˌfyːl] ⓘ is a German term, literally meaning "finger tips feeling" and meaning intuitive flair or instinct, which ...
In German, acronyms retain the grammatical gender of their primary noun. [ 1 ] Syllable words ( German : Silbenkurzwörter ), or syllabic abbreviation or clipping, is a particularly German method of creating an abbreviation by combining the first two or more letters of each word to form a single word.
In modern German, the Old and Middle High German z is now represented by either ss , ß , or, if there are no related forms in which [s] occurs intervocalically, with s : messen (Middle High German: mezzen), Straße (Middle High German: strâze), and was (Middle High German: waz). [29]
Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away
An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say.
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.
"Definition of growing the game," Watt said. “Much, much respect for how much effort, energy and passion (players) poured into this tournament. That’s what’s made it so special.
This comes as Germans continue to pay high prices for fossil fuels in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine—as of last fall, German households were paying 74% more for gas than before the war.