Very few people get to invent a new language that is heard by millions: DW talked to linguist Paul Frommer about how he ...

Have you ever found yourself tangled in a linguistic knot, wondering why sometimes you say im Haus and other times ins Haus? Or why certain prepositions demand the dative case while others insist on ...

Most people are aware of the song “Istanbul was Constantinople” and perhaps none better than the Greeks of Istanbul. Although at the turn of the 20th century they numbered hundreds of thousands, there ...

Ich gebe dem Mann das Buch. I give the man the book. Two nouns in a sentence - dative before accusative Ich gebe es dem Mann. I give it to the man. One noun, one pronoun in a sentence - pronoun goes ...

German has a case system. This means that words, or the endings of words, have to change according to their function in a sentence. There are four cases, and three of them affect pronouns: nominative ...

Have you ever found yourself tangled in the web of German grammar, staring blankly at a sentence and wondering why ‘der’ suddenly became ‘den’? Or perhaps you’ve struggled to correctly identify the ...