{"id":11122,"date":"2019-10-02T23:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=11122"},"modified":"2019-10-02T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T15:02:31","slug":"4-ways-german-english-are-similar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/4-ways-german-english-are-similar\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Ways German & English Are Similar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guten Tag! Last time we looked at 4 ways German & English are different from one another. This time, I’m giving you four ways that German and English are similar to one another. Of course, there are many more things that could be said, so if you have any more ways that German and English either differ from one another or are similar to one another, feel free to leave them in the comment section for others to read.<\/p>\n

4 Ways German & English Are Similar<\/h2>\n
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They are from the same language family<\/h3>\n

English and German are both Germanic languages, which stem from the Indo-European language family. The Germanic language family has several sub-categories, and both German and English are in the West Germanic sub-category.<\/p>\n

They have the same alphabet<\/h3>\n

Both German and English use the Latin alphabet, consisting of 26 letters.The only difference is that German has an extra four: \u00e4 \u00f6 \u00fc and \u00df. Read more about these four German characters in this post a<\/a>nd this post!<\/a><\/p>\n

There are many similar\/easy to recognise words<\/h3>\n

Because they originate from the same language family (and use a lot of loanwords – see the next point for that), there are lots of words in German that are easy to take a guess at, even if you’ve never seen the word before. Here are some examples. See if you can get all of their translations right (the answers are at the bottom of this post!):<\/p>\n

Haus<\/span>
\nWasser<\/span>
\nBett<\/span>
\nUniversit\u00e4t<\/span>
\nMaus<\/span>
\nFoto<\/span>
\nBus<\/span>
\nAdresse<\/span>
\nHotel<\/span>
\nMutter<\/span>
\nVater<\/span><\/p>\n

Both English and German borrow words from each other<\/h3>\n

German and English have borrowed many words from each other over the years! These are called loanwords. Here are a few examples.<\/p>\n

German loanwords in English:<\/strong> Angst, wanderlust, poltergeist, kindergarten, kaputt, flak<\/a>
\nEnglish loanwords in German (often referred to as ‘Denglish’, or ‘Denglisch’ in German):<\/strong> Handy (mobile phone), Party, Baby, Shitstorm (famously used by Angela Merkel – swearing in English is not such a big deal in Germany as it is over here!).<\/p>\n

To read more about loanwords between the languages, please click here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To read the post on 4 ways German and English differ, please click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

I hope this has been useful.<\/p>\n

Bis bald (see you soon)!<\/p>\n

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Answers to number three:<\/p>\n

Haus – house<\/span>
\nWasser – water<\/span>
\nBett – bed<\/span>
\nUniversit\u00e4t – university<\/span>
\nMaus – mouse<\/span>
\nFoto – photo<\/span>
\nBus – bus<\/span>
\nAdresse – address<\/span>
\nHotel – hotel<\/span>
\nMutter – mother<\/span>
\nVater – father<\/span><\/p>\n

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Guten Tag! Last time we looked at 4 ways German & English are different from one another. This time, I’m giving you four ways that German and English are similar to one another. Of course, there are many more things that could be said, so if you have any more ways that German and English…<\/p>\n

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