Why do I need to know Osterfeuer? This word may come up as you make plans for a spring vacation or Easter celebrations in Germany. The tradition that the term refers to is particularly popular in ...

Easter' is found in English and German but in most other European languages the word for the festival comes from old words ...

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Turning to my girlfriend, Iara, I said out loud, ‘Ich liebe dich’. I didn’t even know the English translation – I just repeated it to her and asked, ‘Babe, what does this mean?

Whether you're interested in German history, live in one of the eastern states or simply want to understand German culture better, die Jugendweihe is a tradition with a long and fascinating past.

At the Kerala Literature Festival, the poet, critic and translator of the International Booker Prize winning novel, ‘Kairos’ ...

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As Vienna prepares for local elections later this week, there’s one word you’ll hear again and again: Bezirk. Whether you live in Neubau, Favoriten or Donaustadt, this term is key to understanding not ...

It's an informal intensifier that means “very”, “really”, or “super”, and it gives your spoken German a local, relaxed feel. Using it is a quick way to sound more natural - and more Austrian. So next ...

The Vertikal Rotierender Fisch ('Vertically Rotating Fish') represents a weirdly familiar force of existential disruption.

We compiled a digital dataset of 1574 bilingual dictionaries that translate between English and 616 different ... access to counts of how often a particular word appeared in each dictionary. One ...