In Russian, the adjective for "German", nemetskiy (немецкий) comes from the same Slavic root while the name for the country is Germaniya (Германия).
In Russian, The Germans are referred to as “немецкий” (nemetski) – which means those who can't speak. The root of the word originates in the Russian word meaning mute, which also means stupid and inarticulate.
The History of Germany or Deutschland
To name just a few of the many names or endonyms for Germany: in the Scandinavian languages, Germany is known as Tyskland, in Polish as Niemcy, in Portuguese as Alemanha, in Italian as Germania, in French as Allemagne, in Dutch as Duitsland, and in Spanish as Alemania.
Deutsch means people, and Deutschland stands for the “land of people.” Deutschland is still a trendy name for Germany, and Germans use it for themselves. However, many Englishmen also started using the word Dutchland for Germany.
When the country came about, different languages chose names that were associated with one of the original tribes, and just happened to pick differently. So, "Germany" came from the Latin "Germania", "Allemagne" from the Alemanni tribe, and "Deutschland" from the old High German word "diutisc" meaning "of the people".
Answer and Explanation: "England" is spelled in the exact same way in German, but its pronunciation is a bit different: /EHNG-lahnt/. You may say, for example: Meine Schwester lebt in England.
Germans (German: Deutsche, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə] ( listen)) are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, and sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language. The constitution of Germany defines a German as a German citizen.
The common Chinese name 德国 (德國, pinyin: Déguó) is a combination of the short form of 德意志 (pinyin: déyìzhì), which approximates the German pronunciation [ˈdɔʏtʃ] of Deutsch 'German', plus 國 guó 'country'.
His Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was the “First Reich.” The Frankish Reich would later split into what we now know as Germany, to the east of the Rhine, and France to the west.
The Old English cousin to Dutch, thiod or theod, simply meant “people or nation.” (This also helps explain why Germany is called Deutschland in German.) Over time, English-speaking people used the word Dutch to describe people from both the Netherlands and Germany, and now just the Netherlands today.
During World War II, German soldiers called American soldiers ami.
The People's Republic of China (Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó) and Republic of China (Zhōnghuá Mínguó) are the official names for the two contemporary sovereign states currently claiming sovereignty over the traditional area of China.
Germany's original Christmas gift-bearer St. Nicholas — Sankt Nikolaus in German — makes his tour through town a few weeks earlier in Germany than in America. This isn't because Santa's schedule is just too busy to cover the groundwork before Dec.
Slavic terms for Germany, like Niemcy (Polish) or Německo (Czech), have an altogether different origin. They come from the Proto-Slavic němьcь, which means 'mute'.
English-German Dictionary
Kopftuch {n} [unter dem Kinn gebunden] cloth. babushka [old woman/grandmother] [from Russian] Babuschka {f} babushka (doll) [Matryoshka doll] Babuschka {f} [ugs.] [
Actually, the name of the city itself - Berlin - most likely came from old Slavic root 'brlo' or 'berl(o)' which meant “swamp” or “wetland”. Although the folk etymology says that it came from old Germanic 'bero' which meant “bear”. (That is why the city's coat of arms is a bear.)
Did you know that 'Müller' is the top German surname? Around 850,000 different surnames are found in Germany, of which 700,000 are bearers of the German-surname 'Müller', followed by Schmidt (or Schmitt, Schmitz) and Meier.
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe.
The Japanese refer to Germany as "Doitsu". “Doitsu” means “Germany”.
In 1897, Jiaozhou Bay (Kiautschou Bucht in German), with Qingdao (Tsingtao) as its capital, was colonized by the Germans.
At its peak Prussia included half of modern Poland and all but southern Germany.
Nevertheless, the majority of the population identifies as religious, with Christianity being the traditional and dominant faith. It is estimated that 37.8% of the population identified themselves as not religious, 27.7% identified as Roman Catholic Christians and 25.5% identified as Protestant Christians.
Germany was a conglomeration of many kingdoms and empires but was often referred to as Germania, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Franks. It was also previously known as Prussia.
a contemptuous term used to refer to a German, especially a German soldier in World War I or II.