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Exploring the German Language

This quiz tests your knowledge of the German language, its regions, historical context, and linguistic features.

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1 What region does the German language belong to?

2 Indeed, several ________ clauses may occur between the prefix of a finite verb and its complement; e.g.

3 What family does the German language belong to?

4 In the ________ in the state of Iowa, Amana German is spoken.

5 Who of the following spoke the German language?

6 In Mexico, there are also large populations of German ancestry, mainly in the cities of: Mexico City, Puebla, Mazatlán, Tapachula, and larger populations scattered in the states of Chihuahua, ________, and Zacatecas.

7 Middle Low German was the lingua franca of the ________.

8 the ________), meaning and orthography.

9 Short /ɛ/ is realised as [ɛ] in stressed syllables (including ________), but as [ǝ] in unstressed syllables.

10 There are two common ________: one is for main clauses and another for subordinate clauses.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the German newspaper Illinois Staats-Zeitung, published in Chicago, played an important role in building the Republican Party in Illinois in the 1850s.
  • the German-language socialist newspaper Volkswille in Katowice, Poland, went from daily to weekly publication after the 1933 Nazi takeover stopped the newspaper's financial subsidies from Germany.
  • many soldiers in the Wehrmacht forces deployed for the Ardennes Offensive could not speak German.
  • the Ampelmännchen (German: little men on the traffic signal) of East Germany had a confident stride, thought to evoke enthusiasm in moving toward an ideal socialist future.
  • the children's anime series The Littl' Bits has aired in Japanese, English, Spanish, Polish, German, and Italian.
  • the song "Wadde Hadde Dudde Da?" consists of tongue twisters in an artificial German dialect and never answers the question in its title.
  • the proceedings of the British Summary Court were in both English and German.
  • as a Seattle School Board member during World War I, German-born Nathan Eckstein bowed to pressure to drop German language classes in Seattle Public Schools.
  • although Kristijonas Donelaitis wrote the poem The Seasons in Lithuanian, it was first published in its German translation in 1818.
  • Mark Twain wrote the essay "The Awful German Language" to express his frustrations when learning German.
  • Leo Tolstoy's play The Living Corpse played in New York City in both Yiddish (1911) and German (1916) before it was ever presented there in English (1918).
  • MEP Ryszard Czarnecki thought fellow Polish MEP Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein might harm the Civic Platform in the 2009 elections because of her German-sounding name.
  • Russian historian and scientist Vladimir N. Beneshevich was arrested on charges of spying for Germany and executed because one of his books was translated into German in 1937.
  • Eilhart von Oberge's German poem Tristrant, dating to the late 12th century, is the earliest complete version of the Tristan and Iseult legend in any language.
  • Sabine Ehrenfeld, the Overstock.com spokesmodel, is fluent in German, French, English, and Italian and that she is an experienced pilot and equestrian.
  • Quirinus Kuhlmann, a German poet who called himself "son of the Son of God", was denounced as theologically and politically dangerous, and burnt at the stake for heresy in Moscow in 1689.
  • Alabama lawyer and Republican Party pioneer John Grenier of Birmingham was self-taught in four foreign languages: French, Spanish, German, and modern Greek.
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