The 27th edition of the Duden, the dictionary considered the ultimate arbiter of the German language is out and the book contains 5,000 new additions to the Deutsche vocabulary, reports the German ...

A singular German word overflowing with length and precision can flummox an English speaker: from its number of letters to its complex meaning. In the age of COVID-19, more than 1,200 words in German ...

How many words does the German language have? We'll get to the bottom of this question in the second episode of our podcast ...

There is a long list of long German words. Sometimes, they even show up in the real world. The longest word in the German language—the 63-letter-long ...

To learn more about Germany, it helps to understand the country's nomenclature. German, unlike the neighboring Romance languages, is famously able to create compound words with ease. It’s the origin ...

To most people, Yiddish and German are closely related. The languages share many root words and grammatical structures, and most speakers of one language can at least understand an individual speaking ...

The answer to this seemingly innocuous question that comes up again and again involves the Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish diaspora nationalism, and a little-known protest in front of the Forverts ...

The pandemic has changed how people talk and write. In English, dictionaries have noted a few dozen new entries and revisions: social distancing, frontliner, super-spreader, "Zoom" as a verb. But in ...

Some people collect stamps, or coins, or memorabilia. I have a slightly odder collection. I love to collect foreign words that have no exact equivalent in English The simplest reason for this is that ...

Once swearwords were dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, now researchers argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked When researchers asked people around the world to list every taboo ...