Another 5000 words to learn
Posted on July 24th, 2009by Michelle
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Interesting news for German language learners this week – apparently 5,000 words have been added to the language.
How exactly can you add five thousand words to a language though? Well, apparently a lot of them are from English, including such gems as das It Girl and eine No Go Area.
The additions have been made by staff at Duden, a respected German dictionary now in its 25th edition. Containing 135,000 words, the current edition is around six times the size of the original, produced in 1880.
And my favourite of the new additions? Hüftgold, or as we say in English, “love handles”.