(Download) Why Does It Help to Know English Words Derived from German? This blog post is available as a convenient and portable PDF that youĬlick here to get a copy. Why Does It Help to Know English Words Derived from German?.Keep reading if you’d like to learn about some intriguing, more commonly-used English words derived from German.
They’re fun to say, pop up in various cultural references ( like movies, TV shows and songs) and they even assist you with gaining fluency in German. German-derived English words are amazing. (English actually beats that record, with the 45-letter pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.ApThe English Advantage: 76 Glorious English Words Derived from German The longest German word in the country 's official records is the 39-letter Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften, which is an insurance company that provides legal protection. Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz - a 63-letter word that describes a "law for the delegation of monitoring beef labelling" - has been kicked out of the Deutsch lexicon, thanks to the law's repeal in a regional parliament.īut perhaps it's not such a big loss: Because the word was used so infrequently, it wasn't in dictionaries. Want to foil hackers? Trying setting your password to Handschuhschneeballwerfer, or a slang term for coward.īut eventually, things went too far, even for the Germans. Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkungen? That's a speed limit - which you'll probably pass before you have a chance to sound it out. Why bother with making up new words, the German thinking seems to go, when you can just glue existing ones together? People who are learning German often remark that they have to take a deep breath before embarking on the epic task of saying some of the language's famously Brobdingnagian compound nouns. We can only hope Angela Merkel said the word while looking at this meat.
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