The German language is full of male and female nouns. Officials and businesses are tweaking words, including adding asterisks, to make them... Germany debates how to form gender-neutral words out of ...

A singular German word overflowing with length and precision can flummox an English speaker: from its number of letters to its complex meaning. In the age of COVID-19, more than 1,200 words in German ...

The 27th edition of the Duden, the dictionary considered the ultimate arbiter of the German language is out and the book contains 5,000 new additions to the Deutsche vocabulary, reports the German ...

A billboard advertisement for the delivery service Flink in Berlin uses what's called the "gender star" in the word Freund*in, a gender-neutral word for romantic partner. HANOVER, Germany — How do you ...

HANOVER, Germany — How do you pronounce a word with an asterisk or a colon in the middle? And what's the German word for inclusivity? These are just two questions businesses and organizations in ...