If there’s one thing Germans love more than food it is the act of eating it. Appropriately, there are many colorful words to describe this type of activity,

Unfortunately (or perhaps thankfully) the words “random” and “randomly” are not used nearly as casually in German as they are in English nowadays. Germans say “zufällig” for “coincidentally”

The German language actually has two words for “memory”. One is Gedächtnis and can be defined as the collection of knowledge about the past, and the other is Erinnerung which refers to

The German word for “imagination” (in the sense of forming images in your mind) is Phantasie (f.), also spelled Fantasie (originating in the Greek “phantos” for “visible”). An “illusion” (in the sense

Useful German Phrase: Ich kann nichts dafür. This German phrase essentially means “It’s not my fault.” or “I did not cause this.” and is the perfect retort when someone

Confusing Words: Kirsche and Kirche — These two German words mean “cherry” and “church”, respectively, and are often difficult for learners of German to pronounce correctly or to differentiate. Sound it Out

In the sense of lacking generosity, “stingy” can have several different translations in German. The main word for “miserly” or “cheap” is geizig. Its corresponding noun Geiz (m.) means “stinginess”. A

They're not the same thing. One can usually not use the word frei (which mostly means “free” in the sense of independent, unbound, without handicap or unoccupied) to say that

False friends are words that exist in different languages and while looking similar or even exactly the same, they mean very different things. Let's look at the German