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Word of the Month: Index For the first time, I'm introducing a WoM that does not appear in the Duden, the official dictionary of the...

Word of the Month: Index There is an obvious reason for the present WoM, the UEFA 2020 soccer tournament taking place, in spite of its o...

Monkeys and apes are Affen , and an Affentheater is, in the literal sense, a theater production performed by such animals. But the term ...

Word of the Month: Index I'm reviving the word-of-the-month feature, which has been dormant for a while, to introduce a word that ha...

Word of the Month: Index I'm reading Helen Macdonald's book Falcon , where she introduces, on the first page of the introductio...

Word of the Month: Index We are hearing that within the Democratic Party right now, there is a raging battle between its 'centrist...

Word of the Month: Index Scherben are potsherds or shards, and a Haufen is a heap. A Scherbenhaufen , then, is a heap of shards—think o...

Word of the Month: Index Nerven are German nerves, and Kitzel is a noun derived from the verb kitzeln (to tickle). A Nervenkitzler , t...

Homage to August Sander Word of the Month: Index Winkel is the German word for 'angle' or 'corner', and Advokat is an ...

The suffix –schaft has a wide range of uses in German that overlaps to a large extent with the way in which the etymologically related suff...

Word of the Month: Index Seil means "rope". If we add the suffix -schaft , we get Seilschaft , a group of people connected by ...

Word of the Month: Index A Stall is a stable or a coop, a building for sheltering and feeding domestic animals, be they tall (like horse...

Word of the Month: Index Extra is a prefix that has in German the same meaning it has in English: It indicates a quality exceeding or a ...

Word of the Month: Index Gleich is an adjective/adverb/prefix indicating that something is the same as or indistinguishable from somethin...

Word of the Month: Index A Brenner is a burner (derived from brennen —to burn). Dauer means "duration" and refers to the time...

Word of the Month: Index A dark winter night, a fire in the fireplace illuminating with its flickering light an otherwise dark ro...

Word of the Month: Index Like English, German allows for the creation of new verbs by adding a prefix to an existing one. In fact, German ...

Word of the Month: Index Taten is the plural of Tat , which means "action" or "deed", and Drang means "urge...

Word of the Month: Index Hass is the German word for hatred, and a Prediger is a preacher (derived from the verb predigen -to preach). T...

Word of the Month: Index Persil was the first commercially available "self-activated" laundry detergent (i.e. a cleaner contain...