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 ...

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 ...

Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz, a German word meaning “law delegating beef label monitoring,” no longer exists, apparently. But ...

Any Slavic language-speaker will have noticed the huge number of German loan words, but there are hardly any slavic-origin words in German. But let's take a look at a few which have stuck in Germans’ ...

Archive photo shows a sculpture of the ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite on display at the Haus der Kunst in Munich. Photo: DPA German speakers probably know more Greek than they think. Here's a run ...

There’s something so satisfying about a good German word. As The Awl entertainingly demonstrated with their spot-on “There Oughta Be a German Word For This” column, German words somehow define complex ...

"Emoji" is now a German word, as are "Darknet" and "Tablet." The official dictionary of the German language, the Duden, is getting an update, adding 5,000 new words taken from contemporary society.

German is known for its extra long compound words. When Mark Twain complained that some German words were "so long they have a perspective," he was thinking of words like Freundschaftsbezeigungen ...