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While you are probably familiar with the many words and concepts which have made their way from German into English, such as\u00a0Schadenfreude\u00a0or\u00a0Zeitgeist, you will probably be delighted to find out that this beautiful language has even more up its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":74015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9448],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n10 funny German words and their meaning - Lingoda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Who said German is not a funny language? 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