German is known for its extremely long compound words—Mark Twain once complained that some were “so long they have a perspective.” This quick video demonstrates how those words are constructed.

The usage of Modern German words in Yiddish was also embraced by the Forverts, which was founded in 1897. The name “Forverts” is itself not a Yiddish word.

The German international was shown a red card for hurling abuse at the referee from the bench in the game's closing stages. That was not the only issue, with Rudiger appearing to throw an object ...

We had already said those words in English, but hearing them in her language added a layer of intimacy neither of us expected. Iara is German and I had recently started learning how to speak in ...

Education minister Karin Prien told officials that they must stop inserting the ‘gender asterisk’ into nouns and written ...

Some links are unsurprising, such as German having many words related to beer, or Fijian having many words for fish. The linguist Paul Zinsli wrote an entire book on Swiss-German words related to ...