How do you talk about favorites in German?

The German word for “favorite” is Lieblings_____.

The question often comes up in our German classes on how to express “favorites” (as in, “My favorite place is…”). You can do this by simply adding the object (e.g. “book”, “music”, “food”, “position”, etc.) to the word-part Lieblings  - it‘s that easy! The compound keeps the gender of its last part: der Lieblingsautor, die Lieblingsmusik, das Lieblingsbuch.

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