Notice the noun das Debüt in the title of the above video? That too is based on the French début, which is, of course, "debut" in English.Įs war Ihre Verantwortung, diese Information zu versenden. The German die Emotion is capitalized as a noun, and except for the accent in the French émotion, is written otherwise the same in all three languages. Here das Parlament is spelled slightly differently from the French parlement and English "parliament."įür mich hat's unheimlich viel mit der Emotion zu tun.įor me, it has an awful lot to do with the emotion.Ĭaption 8, Astrid North - Solo-Debüt Play Caption She can look directly across at the parliament.Ĭaption 33, Berlin - Hauptstadt des vereinten Deutschland Play Caption Sie kann direkt hinüberblicken zum Parlament. Let's take a look today at some of the more commonly used German words with a French origin that have obvious French word endings such as - ment, - ion, or - age. All the better if you happen to speak some French already! BANNER PLACEHOLDER
You may wonder why it is helpful to know that some German words originally came from the French-in fact, an estimated 45% of English comes from French or Latin language sources, and very often the French words found in German are the same or very similar to the words found in English that originated from France. If you learn to recognize words in your native English as having a French origin, there is even a fair chance that these words are used in German. German has many French loan words or Gallicisms.
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