In German, umlauts play an important role in changing the meaning and form of words. Here are some key ways umlauts are used: 1. Second and third-person verb conjugations in the present tense: Umlauts are used in the conjugation of verbs for the second and third person singular in the ...
It follows that if one is learning German, they must know how to explain tooth-related questions, pains and woes should they ever end up in a German dentist's chair, staring up at that bright light with words failing them. German dental vocabulary is also bound to come in handy when ...
Again, the “i” can be pronounced open in some words. The difference to a closed “i” is that the tongue is lowered a little bit; the sound is very short. It comes close to the “i” in “instant.” An example for a German word with an open “i” is “ich” [I]. To sum...
German might just have the word you are looking for where English falls short. See this list of some untranslatable German words.
We also have to comment on the possible relationship between the slang words warm and schwul. If warm means heated, schwül (with umlauts in u) means suffocating, which is much hotter and more intense in all its meanings, which in this context means “much more faggot”. There are those...
representing a voicelesss(as in Englishmouse), now often replaced withss;and the umlauted vowelsä,ö,andü.German is the only language in which all nouns are capitalized, common as well as proper. There is a closer relationship between German spelling and pronunciation than there is in ...
German hyphenation and Umlaut/s inSchulze, Bernd
AlthoughStandard Germanis clearly based on the East Middle German dialects, it is not identical with any one of them; it has accepted and standardized many forms from other areas, notably the Upper German soundpf(Pfund, Apfel) and also large numbers of individual words in the forms of other...
German "Umlauts" (Umlautein German) can lead to problems for beginners. Words can change their meaning based on whether they have an umlaut or not. For example,zahlenmeans to "pay" butzählenmeans to "count."Bruderis one brother, butBrüdermeans "brothers" - more than one. Pay attention...
I can output Responsive HTML5 and CHM, but in the chm all umlauts and also all special characters are replaced with questionmarks in a black box. In the TOC of the chm all umlauts are visible. The output of the Responsive HTML5 shows all umlauts properly. The Ge...