This word comes from English, but get ready for the German version - and it may not be what you're used to. If you have lived in Germany for any length of time, you will have noticed that locals tend ...

The Germans are famous for using long words used to describe hyper-specific, complex sentiments. For instance, the 26-letter word vergangenheitsbewaeltigung describes the inability to cope with the ...

When you literally translate German words into English, you often get some pretty funny results. Can you guess what these ten direct translations really mean? It may be a tricky language to master, ...

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 ...

The phrase "das crazy" (that crazy) has been voted Germany's Youth Word of the Year for 2025, the Langenscheidt publishing house announced on Saturday at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The expression, a mix ...

Put two words together that seem like oxymorons and the result is something that makes sense. These German terms are both entertaining and paradoxical. The German language is famous for its compound ...

Konrad Duden published his Vollständiges orthographisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (“Complete Orthographic Dictionary of the German Language”) way back in 1880. That was a brilliant stroke of ...

German’s super-long compound words are legendary—even Mark Twain had something to say about them. This quick video demonstrates how those words are constructed. But Germany had not in fact lost its ...

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 ...