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26 unusual facts about German language


A. Ronald Walton

Working with ACTFL, the US Department of Education, the College Board, among other organizations, Walton helped to formulate nationwide standards for Japanese, French, Hebrew German, Spanish Chinese and Korean.

AP German Language

This course is designed to give high school students the opportunity to receive credit in a college-level German language course.

Cégep de l'Outaouais

While French is the main teaching language at the institution, there are also courses offered in English, Spanish, German and Mandarin.

Character piece

Character piece is a literal translation of the German Charakterstück, a term, not very precisely defined, used for a broad range of 19th century piano music based on a single idea or program.

Diener

The word Diener is German for servant.

Emily Anderson

She then returned in 1917 to Galway as professor of German at UCG.

Friedrich der Grosse

Friedrich der Grosse (spelled Große in German) is the German name for Frederick the Great, a ruler of Prussia.

Green Hills Fantasy

Green Hills Fantasy is a musical piece composed by Thomas Doss describing the Upper Austrian region of Mühlviertel (literally German for the Mühl Quarter or District)

Hont, Hungary

The name of the county and the settlement derived from Hunt’s name, what means captain in old German language.

Jacob Nolde

He was drawn to the German speaking communities of southeastern Pennsylvania and quickly found employment as a weaver for the Louis Kraemer Woolen Mills near Reading.

Karl Godulla

A subdivision of Ruda Śląska (Godula, de:Godullahütte) has historically been named after Carolus Godulla.

Kenkichi Oshima

Fluent in the German language, during the Berlin Olympics, Ōshima had a 20 minute interview of Adolf Hitler, who apparently mistook Ōshima for a Japanese military attache of the same surname.

Klevner

Klevner or Clevner is a synonym for various grape varieties and wines, and is primarily used in German-speaking wine regions.

Knight's Cross

Knight's Cross (German language Ritterkreuz) refers to a distinguishing grade or level of various orders that denotes bravery and leadership on the battlefield.

Languages of Austria

The languages of Austria include German, the official language and lingua franca; Austro-Bavarian, the main language outside Vorarlberg; Alemannic, the main language in Vorarlberg; and several minority languages.

Martin Krippner

Martin Krippner (23 September 1817, Mantau, Bohemia; to 31 January 1894) was a Bohemian-born Austrian Captain who led the settlement of Puhoi by German speaking Bohemians from Staab / Stod in 1863.

Matsch

Matsch is a name of German origin.

Mensa

In German, the term Mensa is used to refer to a university cafeteria

Middle French

There were also some borrowings from Spanish (casque) and German (reître) and from the Americas (cacao, hamac, maïs).

New Gods

The two planets were once part of the same world, a planet called Urgrund (German for "primeval ground"), but it was split apart millennia ago after the death of the Old Gods during Ragnarök.

Oskar Schade

He was the author of the influential Altdeutsches Wörterbuch (Old German Dictionary), and with August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874), was co-editor of the Weimarisches Jahrbuch für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kunst (Weimar Annals of German language, literature and art).

Panzerhaubitze

Panzerhaubitze is the German term equivalent to armoured howitzer.

Patrizius Wittman

His "Allgemeine Geschichte der katholischen Missionen" (1846 and 1850) was the first treatment of this subject in German; the second volume of the work treats mainly of the conversion of the Indian tribes in America.

Satanische Verse

Satanische Verse (1990) is the first release by the German band Das Ich.

Skolem–Noether theorem

The theorem was first published by Thoralf Skolem in 1927 in his paper Zur Theorie der assoziativen Zahlensysteme (German: On the theory of associative number systems) and later rediscovered by Emmy Noether.

Will Minson

Off the field, Minson is known for his intelligence and multi-faceted abilities - he plays saxophonist, speaks fluent German and is currently studying civil engineering at the University of Melbourne.


Alex Glen

He joined Southampton in time for their summer tour of Germany, where his fluent German led to him becoming the club's official interpreter.

Alvand

Alvand is newer form of *Harvant, (from Indo-European > Indo-Iranian root of *har), means "high", and vanta (akin to German "bund" and English bond, Persian and Kurdish "band," meaning "connected to" or "that of," "bound to" etc.

Antonio Milošoski

He became foreign minister on 28 August 2006 (replacing Ilinka Mitreva) and commands four foreign languages - Albanian, English, German and Serbian.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park

The town of Carlsbad, which lends its name to the Cavern and National Park, is in turn named after the Czech town formerly known by the German name Karlsbad (English spelling Carlsbad) and now known by the Czech name Karlovy Vary, both of which mean "Charles' Baths."

Chief fireman

In imperial Prussia, the title was known as brandmeister (from German Brand - "fire" and Meister - literally "master") and was the police officer, the chief of one of city fire-fighting crews.

China Today

It is published in Chinese language, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, German and Turkish, and is intended to promote a positive view of the People's Republic of China and its government to people outside of China.

Euronord

It is chiefly based on English, Dutch, German, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish and is intended to be a zonal constructed language for Northern Europe.

Fassel

Fassel (translated "barrel") is a surname of German origin.

Football Glory

Football Glory (Fußball Total! in German-speaking countries) is a 1994 football video game developed by Croteam and published by Black Legend that became famous due to the many similarities with Sensible Software's Sensible Soccer.

Fusspils 11

Fusspils 11 is the name of a German aggrotech, industrial, and EBM musical project collaboration of Ravenous and Funker Vogt members Gerrit Thomas, Jens Kaestel, Björn Böttcher, Tim Fockenbrock, Kai Schmidt, and Peggy Johanson.

Galaxy Fraulein Yuna

The Japanese title literally translates to "Galaxy Lady Legend Yuna", "Fraulein" refers to the German word "Fräulein" standing for "Miss".

Galsan Tschinag

Galsan Tschinag (Чинаагийн Галсан), born Irgit Shynykbai-oglu Dshurukuwaa (*26 December 1944 in Bayan-Ölgii Province, Mongolia) is a Mongolian writer of novels, poems, and essays in the German language, though he hails from a Tuvan background.

Halle, Bentheim

Unlike the people of the better known and bigger city of Halle in Saxony-Anhalt, who call themselves Hallenser in German, the inhabitants here call themselves simply Haller, following the usual German rule for formulating nouns denoting a particular place’s inhabitants.

Imperial Natural History Museum

Later, the Museum became part of the Natural History Museum of Vienna, Austria (in German, "Naturhistorisches Museum Wien" or NHM-Wien).

Jean Chrétien Fischer

Jean Chrétien Fischer (German: Johann Christian Fischer; 17 January 1713 in Stuttgart – 1 July 1762 near Kassel) was a German-born soldier in the French service.

Johann Heynlin

Born in Stein near Pforzheim (from Stein, meaning "stone" in German, are derived his translated Latinized surname Lapideus and Gallicized surnames La Pierre or à Lapide), Heynlin may have been of Swabian origin.

Johann Ludwig Tellkampf

Tellkampf came to the United States in 1838, engaged in teaching, and in 1843-47 was professor of the German language and literature in Columbia.

Jung, brutal, gutaussehend 2

Jung, brutal, gutaussehend 2 (German for Young, brutal, good-looking 2) is a German hip hop album by Kollegah and Farid Bang.

K-911

They also reluctantly team up with Sergeant Wendy Welles and her Doberman Pinscher, Zeus, who, according to Welles, was trained in the Netherlands and listen to commands in Dutch (although in reality the commands are in German).

Katō Hiroyuki

As an instructor at the Tokugawa bakufu's Bansho Shirabesho institute for researching Western science and technology from 1860–1868, he was one of the first Japanese to study German language and German philosophy.

Klaus Knopper

He received his degree in electrical engineering from the Kaiserslautern University of Technology (in German: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern), co-founded LinuxTag in 1996 (a major European Linux expo) and has been a self-employed information technology consultant since 1998.

Langenlonsheim Airfield

Langenlonsheim Airfield (or Flugplatz Langenlonsheim in German) is a small airfield in Langenlonsheim, Germany.

Laura's Happy Adventures

Many different language versions of the game were produced, including Spanish, French, German and even British English.

Likatier tribe

The Likatier tribe (in German Stamm der Likatier, known as Stamm Füssen Eins until 1998) is a community of about 200 people (more than half being minors) who live and work together in Füssen in the south of Germany.

Marathon Media Group

The shows are dubbed into French (1st official), Japanese (2nd official), English, Thai, German, Dutch, Malay, Arabic, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages dubbed and shown around the world.

Marcie Blane

Released in the fall of 1962, "Bobby's Girl" made #2 on the Cash Box chart and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was later recorded for the German market in their language.

Martin Peter Friedrich Basedow

He is identified with the Zeitung, a German newspaper published in South Australia, and represented Barossa in the South Australian House of Assembly from 20 May 1876 to 22 April 1890 when he was not reelected.

Miķelis Valters

Miķelis Valters (formerly, and as an author in German, Walters) (May 7, 1874 in Liepāja - – March 27, 1968 in Nice) was a prominent Latvian politician, diplomat, writer, and editor.

Nathan ben Moses Hannover

This work, owing to its literary value, was translated into Yiddish (1687), into German (1720), and into French by Daniel Levy (published by Benjamin II., Tlemçen, 1855).

Needle ice

Alternate names for needle ice are "frost pillars" ("Säuleneis" in German), "frost column", "Kammeis" (a German term meaning "comb ice"), "Stängeleis" (another German term referring to the stem-like structures), "shimo bashira" (霜柱 the Japanese term for "ice needles"), or "pipkrake" (from Swedish pipa (tube) and krake (weak, fine), coined in 1907 by Henrik Hesselman).

Neue Slowenische Kunst

Neue Slowenische Kunst (a German phrase meaning "New Slovenian Art"), a.k.a. NSK, is a controversial political art collective that announced itself in Slovenia in 1984, when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia.

Nikolaus Gross

Nikolaus Gross (German:Groß) (30 September 1898 – 23 January 1945) was a German resistance fighter and labor union leader in the time of the Third Reich who was later beatified by Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on 7 October 2001.

Peruvian Connection

Today, the company has about 200 employees in the United States, South America and the U.K. Peruvian Connection catalogs are printed in English with prices in dollars or pounds sterling, and in German with pricing in Euros.

Raed Jarrar

The shirts were produced by The Critical Voice, an anti-war group; the text was inspired by the German phrase Wir schweigen nicht ("We will not be silent"), the slogan of the White Rose, the "subversive" German antifascist anti-Nazi organization.

Reflection theorem

In algebraic number theory, a reflection theorem or Spiegelungssatz (German for reflection theorem – see Spiegel and Satz) is one of a collection of theorems linking the sizes of different ideal class groups (or ray class groups), or the sizes of different isotypic components of a class group.

Rheine-Bentlage Air Base

Rheine-Bentlage Air Base (German: Heeresflugplatz Rheine-Bentlage, IATA: ZPQ, ICAO: ETHE) is located near the village of Bentlage, 2 km northwest of the city of Rheine, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

RV Polarstern

Polarstern is also the name of the first track of Eisbrecher's (German for Icebreaker) first album, Eisbrecher.

Schöner Náci

He walked around the Old Town and in particular the stretch from Michael's Gate to the river, in top hat and tails, greeting women with the words, “I kiss your hand” in German, Hungarian and Slovak.

St. Kilian's Deutsche Schule

It was named after Saint Kilian (using the German language version of his name), the Irish saint who spread Christianity throughout Europe.

St. Louis Jesuits

In addition, some hymns have even been translated into other languages such as Chinese, French, German, Korean, Polish, Spanish and Vietnamese, and have garnered wide acceptance in those areas as a result.

Sünde

Sünde (German for Sin) is the third album by the German band Eisbrecher, released on August 22, 2008 in Germany, and on August 26, 2008 in the United States.

The Children of the Grail

The Children of the Grail (German Die Kinder des Gral) is a historical novel published in 1996 and a series based on it written by Peter Berling.

The Sacred War

There are a number of foreign-language adaptations of this song, among them the German version Der Heilige Krieg (written by Stephan Hermlin) and the Hungarian version Fel, küzdelemre, hõs haza.

Ts'ao Yung-ho

Ts'ao has studied a number of languages in pursuit of his understanding of early Taiwanese history, meaning he can now make use of ten languages: Taiwanese, Japanese, English, German, Mandarin Chinese, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin.

Wilna, New York

The origin of the name of the town is obscure, although it is alleged to be named after the German spelling of Vilnius, in commemoration of the French occupation of Vilnius, Lithuania in 1812.

Wrist

The English word "wrist" is etymologically derived from the ancient German word wristiz from which are derived modern German rist ("instep", "wrist") and modern Swedish vrist ("instep", "ankle").