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17 unusual facts about German language


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.

Fassel

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

History of Swedish

The gender system resembled that of modern German, having the genders masculine, feminine and neuter.

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.

Kurt Kreuger

Kurt Kreuger briefly returned to Europe and starred in several German movies.

Languages of Hungary

:: – German: spoken by the German minority, especially in and around Mecsek Mountains, but also in other parts of the country.

Languages of Malta

In addition to Italian, many Maltese generally have some degree of proficiency in French, and quite a few understand or speak Spanish or German, although several other languages are studied too.

Marmara University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences of Marmara University has a 127 year history and provides education in 11 departments and in four languages: Turkish, English, German and French.

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.

Matsch

Matsch is a name of German origin.

Middle French

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

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).

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.

Scharfrichter

The term Scharfrichter (German for executioner, literally: "keen judge") refers specifically to a tradition of executioners in the German states.

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.

Zaļenieki Manor

Zaļenieki Manor, also called Zaļā Manor because of the German word Grünhof, is a manor house in the historical region of Zemgale, in Latvia.


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.

Amit Offir

On 2013 Amit's books were translated to other languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and many more.

Anna Maria Dengel

After completing her schooling there, she was offered a position to teach German in Lyons, France.

Arabic grammar

Note that the relative pronoun agrees in gender, number and case, with the noun it modifies—as opposed to the situation in other inflected languages such as Latin and German, where the gender and number agreement is with the modified noun, but the case marking follows the usage of the relative pronoun in the embedded clause (as in formal English "the man who saw me" vs. "the man whom I saw").

Astra Digital Radio

The majority of channels to have ever broadcast on ADR, and all remaining ones, are German or in the German language.

Berlin–Lehrte railway

The Berlin–Lehrte railway, known in German as the Lehrter Bahn (Lehrter railway), is an east-west line running from Berlin via Lehrte to Hanover.

Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century

The Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century is a list of books compiled in 1999 by Literaturhaus München and Bertelsmann, in which 99 prominent German authors, literary critics, and scholars of German ranked the most significant German-language novels of the twentieth century.

Brennschluss

Brennschluss (a loanword, from the German Brennschluß) is either the cessation of fuel burning in a rocket or the time that the burning ceases: the cessation may result from the consumption of the propellants, from deliberate shutoff, or from some other cause.

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.

Countess Marie of Hochberg

Princess Marie of Hanover (German: Marie Viktoria Luise Hertha Friederike, Prinzessin von Hannover, Prinzessin von Großbritannien und Irland, Herzogin zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg), Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born 26 November 1952 in Pattensen, Lower Saxony, Germany) is the wife of Count Michael of Hochberg.

Culavamsa

The foremost translation of this work was that of William Geiger from Pali into German, completed in 1930.

Danish language

Similar constructions are found in German, Dutch, Afrikaans, certain varieties of Norwegian, Slovene and Arabic as well as in archaic and dialect English (compare the line "Four-and-twenty blackbirds" in the old nursery rhyme.)

Ebenezer, Saskatchewan

The first settlers arrived between 1885 and 1887, mostly German-speaking Protestants who named the village after the location of Eben-Ezer mentioned in the Books of Samuel of the Old Testament.

Eine Chance/Zu Gangsta

"Eine Chance"/"Zu Gangsta" (German: "One chance"/"Too gangsta") is a double A-side single by the German rappers Bushido and Fler off their 2009 album Carlo, Cokxxx, Nutten 2.

Galaxy Fraulein Yuna

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

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.

Herr Mannelig

The ballad has recently been performed and recorded by the following notable artists: In Extremo, Garmarna, Hedningarna (in Swedish), Haggard (in Italian), Heimataerde (in German) and Litvintroll (in Belarusian).

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.

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.

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.

Kennst du die Stars

"Kennst du die Stars" (German: "Do you know the stars") is the third single by German rapper Bushido featuring comedian Oliver Pocher, from his album Heavy Metal Payback.

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.

Kleinwallstadt

The watchtower is a reference to the Limes Germanicus, built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian (117-138), which once ran along the river Main between Kleinwallstadt and the town across the river, Großwallstadt (klein and groß are German for “little” and “great” respectively).

Laura's Happy Adventures

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

Liechtenstein identity card

The Liechtenstein identity card (in German: Identitätskarte Liechtenstein) is issued to Liechtenstein citizens by the Immigration and Passport Office in Vaduz.

Lindenbaum

Lindenbaum is a surname, meaning Tilia in German; the nearest British tree name is Lime tree.

Luis de Ávila y Zuniga

The book, first published in 1548, was very popular in its time, and was translated into French, Dutch, German, Italian, and Latin.

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.

Neue Künstlervereinigung München

The Neue Künstlervereinigung München e.V (NKVM), ("Munich New Artist's Association", if literally translated from German) formed in 1909 in Munich around Wassily Kandinsky, and prefigured Der Blaue Reiter, the first modernist secession which is regarded as a forerunner and pathfinder for Modern art in 20th-century Germany.

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.

Panzerhaubitze

Panzerhaubitze is the German term equivalent to armoured howitzer.

Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss of Köstritz

Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss of Köstritz, also Prince Heinrich XXIV Reuss, Younger Line (German: Heinrich XXIV. Prinz Reuß zu Köstritz, also Heinrich XXIV. Prinz Reuß jüngere Linie, December 8, 1855 in Trebschen – October 2, 1910 in Ernstbrunn, Austria) was a German composer.

Radio Bulgaria

In 2004, Radio Bulgaria broadcasts to Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America on short and medium wave in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian and Turkish.

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.

Rust, Burgenland

The settlement was first mentioned as Ceel in a 1317 deed issued by King Charles I of Hungary, its name derived from Hungarian szil for Elm, later translated into German Rüster or Rusten.

Samuel Nathan Blatchford

In addition to his native Navajo and second language of English, he also learned to speak Turkish, French, German and Japanese.

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.

Thalweg

The German word Thalweg (nowadays spelt Talweg) is a compound noun that is built from the German elements Thal (since Duden's orthography reform of 1901 written Tal) meaning valley, and Weg, meaning way.

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.

Unter Null

Unter Null (German for 'below zero') initially began as a powernoise project influenced by a number of similar prominent artists, including Noisex, Converter and P.A.L.