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Bücher is the plural of Buch (book), and a Bücherwurm is the German equivalent of the English "bookworm"—a person who has no l...

I have a perspective on this issue (based in part on observations I made when I was living in Germany) that I see rarely voiced—that's w...

I selected the present word of the month after reading, in translation, Jürgen Habermas's essay Leadership and Leitkultur , which recen...

Dreck and Schmutz mean basically the same thing in German: dirt. A Spatz is a sparrow and a Fink a finch. Hitched to a word meaning ...

Word of the Month: Index Let me start with a story: The coach of the German national soccer team, Jogi Löw, nominated two forwards (Podols...

See (fem.) means "sea" and Bär means "bear". Seebär is usually used together with alt (old): Ein alter Seebär is th...

When I was in Germany this summer, I found the country in a strange funk. I say "strange" because this mood is in contrast to a b...