Despite aiming to complete their project in 10 years, the Brothers Grimm died a century before the final volume of their work was published in 1961. As heavy as it is long, the German Dictionary by ...

The 29th edition of the Duden dictionary is published on Tuesday. (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP)AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP) The new Duden dictionary is thicker than ...

The latest edition of the Duden, the preeminent dictionary of the German language, contains 3,000 new words. Language purists are rattled — and some politicians also feel threatened by the changes.

German is one of the most popular European languages. Several countries use the language outside of Germany as well. It’s difficult to travel to that part of the world without running into the German ...

A German dictionary entry for the word “Jew” has been changed after members of the country’s Jewish community complained that the definition was problematic. The definition offered by the Duden ...

The German language has lost its longest word. BBC News Magazine's Jon Kelly asks how lovers of plus-sized lexicography will cope. Sesquipedalians - lovers of long ...

Andrzej Tobis designed his own version of an illustrated Polish-German dictionary issued two decades ago in the German Democratic Republic. Whilst he’s enclosed the literal meaning and references of ...

BERLIN — The leading dictionary of standard German has changed its definition of “Jew,” or “Jude” in German, after a recent update caused an uproar in the country’s Jewish community — a move ...

Which terms can no longer be found in Germany’s Duden dictionary, and when were they removed? Author Peter Graf’s book looks not at new words, but rather at ones that no longer exist. Words such as ...