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German Lucky Numbers Posted by on May 6, 2020

Guten Tag! Every culture has different ‘lucky numbers’, for different reasons. Today we’ll look at which numbers are considered lucky in Germany, and how this plays out in the German language. In Germany, there are two main numbers that are considered lucky. These are the numbers 4 and 7. One might call these Glückszahlen. The…

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German Bad Luck: Pech And Unglück Posted by on Apr 1, 2020

Guten Tag! Ich hoffe, es geht euch gut (Hello! I hope you are all well)! We recently talked about Glück (luck) on the blog. In case you missed those posts, they are here and here. Now we’re going to talk about its opposite, bad luck, which is a very interesting word in itself in German!…

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The German Word ‘Glück’: Happiness Or Luck? Posted by on Mar 25, 2020

Guten Tag! Recently I’ve been talking about das Glück (luck) on the blog, and I wanted to address something that could be confusing about this word. If you studied German in school, one of the first adjectives you probably learnt was the word for happy – glücklich. Ich bin glücklich – I am happy Ich…

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Survey in German: Was ist Glück? – What is luck? Posted by on Jul 26, 2012

While I was working on the translations of the lyrics of some German songs I came across this video where people are asked what luck is to them. I found this so great that I decided to write down their opinions and translate them into English. I think this could be very useful for you…

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