German has a lot of specific words for a lot of silly things, which sound ridiculous when translated literally into English. Here are ten of the best. The German language doesn’t mess around when it ...

What was once the longest word in the German language, a tongue consisting of many ridiculously lengthy words, is no more. The term ...

The word ‘kaputt’ started being used in England during the First World War, and to this day maintains popularity as a slang word for ‘completely destroyed’. Why the English-speaking world adopted the ...

Other words like "bottomless" and "doer" also made the annual list voted by Germany's 10 to 20 year-olds. Continuing with the trend of incorporating English words into their daily lingo, the verb ...

Some 1.2 million young people in Germany have selected "cringe" as their favorite "in" word. Two other English words made it into the top three. "Cringe" has been selected as Germany's youth word of ...