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Example sentences for: german

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Andrew Gray's remarks on “nonsense about the German language” [XVIII, 1] reminded me of another myth widely held in the English-speaking world about German: it tends to have longer words than English does.
When I first began to study German it took a while to learn that Gift was not something one wanted for Christmas, and that Mist was not cool and dewy, but warm and smelly.
By the time I graduated from college, I had studied Latin and French for eleven years, Greek for four, German and Old English for two, Lithuanian and Sanskrit for one, and had established a passing acquaintance with Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish.
Since Günter Grass won his Nobel Prize a week ago, critics have argued that Grass' political views make him a parody of a left-wing German intellectual: Who can take seriously a man who mourns the lost asceticism of East Germany?
Teams of Italian, French, Flemish, and German architects and sculptors contributed to this astonishing cathedral, begun in 1386 by the ruling Visconti family.