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High German   /haɪ dʒˈərmən/   Listen
High German

noun
1.
The standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic.  Synonyms: German, German language.



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"High German" Quotes from Famous Books



... consultation of experts in both fields. Certain instructive misunderstandings of the most obvious sort occur when the half-educated drop their dialect, or thoroughly educated people alter the dialectical expressions and try to translate them into high German. ...
— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden
... by skiff to the next town, Necharsteinach; so I ran to the riverside in advance of the party and asked a man there if he had a boat to hire. I suppose I must have spoken High German—Court German—I intended it for that, anyway—so he did not understand me. I turned and twisted my question around and about, trying to strike that man's average, but failed. He could not make out what I wanted. Now Mr. X arrived, faced this same man, ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


Words linked to "High German" :   FRG, West Germanic, Yiddish, Herr, Germany, Deutschland, West Germanic language, Fraulein, Pennsylvania Dutch, Frau, Federal Republic of Germany


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