Sentence examples for German from high-quality English sources.

• “The progress in German is small.”

• …legendary team of the German Bundesliga.

• Initially, German was the language spoken at home for many German immigrants in Texas, USA.

• German books were burned, dachshunds kicked and German-Americans forced to buy war bonds to prove their patriotism.

• The German Empire created in 1871 did not include all German-speaking peoples.

• The period of German literature lasting from about 1050 to 1300 is called the Middle High German period.

• German missionaries arrived in Ewe territory in 1847, and German traders were soon established at Anécho.

• In 1891 the German imperial government took over administration of the area from the German East Africa Company

Use German in a sentence.

• The absorption of German colonies by England and France after World War II eradicated most of the German influence in education.

• As a result, the spoken form of modern Standard German has often been aptly described as “High German with Low German sounds.”

• As a spoken language, however, German exists in many dialects, most of which belong to either the High German or Low German dialectal groups.

• In addition to Alemannic (Swiss German) and Bavarian, which were the Upper German dialects of Old High German, a number of Franconian (Frankish) dialects also existed.

• In the German-speaking world, a writer or painter or composer or playwright or sculptor was German whether holding a passport from the Federal Republic or from the Democratic Republic.

• Not only was German opera sung in German, but it also was based in German legend and literature and borrowed the rich emotional styles familiar from German symphonic works.

• Within the modern High German speech area, Middle and Upper German dialect groups are differentiated, the latter group including Austro-Bavarian, Alemannic (Swiss German), and High Franconian.

• During Middle High German times (after 1100), a standard language based on the Upper German dialects (Alemannic and Bavarian) in the southernmost part of the German speech area began to arise.

German sentence examples

• Presumably they would prefer a bit of British music – as long as it is not by Handel (German), Delius (son of a German), Holst (sounds German) or Britten (pacifist so probably pro-German).

• Examples include predigōn (modern German predigen ‘to preach’), from Latin praedicāre; tempal (modern German Tempel ‘temple’), from Latin templum; and spiagal (modern German Spiegel ‘mirror’), from Latin speculum.

• Because of its ancient German associations and because of its large German-speaking population, Alsace-Lorraine was incorporated into the German Empire after France’s defeat in the Franco-German War (1870–71).

• Some groups—especially those who remain apart—still speak (in addition to English) a German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch or Pennsylvania German, a blending of High German (in reference to the altitude of their natal region), various German dialects, and English.