Certain suffixes can also tell us about a name's origin. The suffix -ke/ka—as inRilke, Kafka, Krupke, Mielke, Renke, Schoepke—hints at Slavic roots. Such names, often considered "German" today, stem from the eastern parts of Germany and former German territory spreading eastward from Ber...
1. Each letter is worth itOne of the reasons German words can be so impressively long is because they tend to have a large variety of prefixes and suffixes. These can add an extra portion of meaning to each word. For example, the prefix ‘ver’ generally adds the meaning that something ...
The greatest obstacles to reading Judæo-German are the compound words in which the stem is Hebrew while the suffixes are German and Slavic; here the etymological Hebrew, the semihistorical German, and the phonetic Slavic spellings meet in one and the same word. Only those texts which are...
Opt for terms that have a neutral meaning with the suffixes -hilfe, -kraft, -personal, -schaft, -leute to replace gender-specific forms. Please keep in mind, though, that suffixes like -schaft refer to a whole group of individuals, not to subgroups or individuals, so they are not ...
Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf.H & Ausf.M (VK9.03) German Reich (1940-1942) Light/Reconnaissance Tank – At Least 1 Prototype Hull Completed At the start of the Second World War, the Panzer I and Panzer II light tanks far outnumbered any of the other tanks in the German inventory. Lightly ar...
If there had not been a quarrel with Russia and if Yugoslavia had undergone one of those purges that took place in the rest of Eastern Europe, he could never have survived. He had precisely the background that Stalin most disliked and distrusted. He was a Jew, a veteran Communist (with ...
Furthermore, the number of suffixes that can be used to feminize personal nouns denoting men is larger in Dutch than in German (see Table 2). The most productive female-specific suffix in Dutch is -e, which espe-cially occurs with loans (assistent-assistente [assistant]); nouns ending in...
Theissue of whether the main stress in retractions starts from the final, thepenultimate or the antepenultimate syllable depends on the supraseg-mental properties of the derivational suffixes terminating the pentasylla-bic items. When the suffix is stress-bearing (as inkonjunktur-e ́ll‘pertain...
Well, one place where German is not a particularly popular choice as a foreign language to study would be . . . (drum roll) Germany. And Babbel appears to be headquartered in Berlin. While they may have online customers “based in Europe and North America,” if their customer base is ov...
They therefore pertain to the earliest records of the suffixes presented here, which were productive not only in the Germanic period but, to some extent, also in early Old High German, even up to contemporary German. Likewise, the suffixes -lich and -ung are used today to form new ...