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Word of the Month: Index Morgen means "morning," and a Muffel is a sullen person, a grouch. Put together, they signify a pers...

Word of the Month: Index Stern means “star” and Stunde “hour.” A Sternstunde (plural Sternstunden ) is a “dramatically compressed, fate...

Word of the Month: Index Platz means "place" in a very broad sense—it can be a location, a position (like in a hierarchy), a sp...

Word of the Month: Index A Treppe is a stair(case), and Witz means "joke." In combination, they indicate an event that, in ret...

Word of the Month: Index Sünden means "sins," and a Bock is a male goat in this context. Sündenbock is used in German in exa...

Word of the Month: Index A Sippe is an extended family, a clan. Haftung means "liability" and Haft "imprisonment" o...

Guest post by Laraine Flemming Laraine's text is longer than my usual posts and therefore opens in a new window . I wholeheartedly ag...