The University of Cambridge in England is reportedly teaching students in a German class to adopt new gender-neutral versions of plural nouns in a bid to be more inclusive. The university acknowledged ...

BERLIN – Most Germans consider themselves in the vanguard of the gender equality movement. Exhibit A: Their female leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, has been in power for 13 years. Women's rights ...

All nouns in German are either masculine, feminine or neuter. When you learn that the word for dog is Hund, learn that it’s a masculine noun - der Hund. For masculine nouns der means ‘the’ - der Hund ...

HANOVER, Germany — How do you pronounce a word with an asterisk or a colon in the middle? And what's the German word for inclusivity? These are just two questions businesses and organizations in ...

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Germany’s education minister has banned civil servants from using gender-neutral language in documents, in a pushback against a new trend recognising non-binary people. Karin Prien has told officials ...

“IN GERMAN, A young lady has no sex, while a turnip has,” grumbled Mark Twain in his essay “The Awful German Language”. The rules governing gender in German are indeed baffling: why die Rübe (feminine ...

The term 'Freudenfreude' was recently identified by mistake as a German word. Here's why that is not such a bad thing. On November 25th, a San Francisco-based psychologist penned an article for the ...