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In special cases an entry will be additionally referenced. In German, initialisms retain the grammatical gender of their primary noun. Initialisms are typically found in commercial, government, legal, medical, scientific and technical uses. Examples include EU for European Union and DDR for German Democratic Republic. Initialism is a type of abbreviation consisting of the initials of each word in a phrase, almost always capitalized, and pronounced separately.Although used and pronounced as words in their own right, according to Helmut Glück they are classified as acronyms. A number of German syllable words have made it into English usage, such as Adidas, from company founder Adi Dassler, and Gestapo for Geheime Staats Polizei (Secret State Police). An example is the gummy bear brand Haribo, which is derived from the name of its creator Hans Riegel and the city where it was created, Bonn. Syllable words ( German: Silbenkurzwörter), or syllabic abbreviation or clipping, is a particularly German method of creating an acronym by combining the first two or more letters of each word to form a single word.In German, acronyms retain the grammatical gender of their primary noun. Examples that have made their way into German from English include Laser or NATO. Acronyms are abbreviations consisting of initials of words in the original phrase, written without periods, and pronounced as if they were a single word.Unlike English, which is moving away from periods in abbreviations in some style guides, the placement of capital letters and periods is important in German.

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Abbreviations: German written abbreviations are often punctuated and are pronounced as the full word when read aloud, such as beispielsweise for bspw.This list makes a distinction between the types because of the way German-speakers create, use and pronounce them. It is unsettled question in English style guides whether the word acronym can be used to also describe initialisms. Initialisms are abbreviations in which each initial in the abbreviation is pronounced separately, such as FBI. Acronyms are a type of abbreviation pronounced as a single word, such as Laser. for Imperial and Royal and OKW for Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.Īs in English or Latin, German written abbreviations consist of a letter, letters or partial words shortened from a longer word or phrase, such as etc. It does not include abbreviations that are important historically but no longer in common usage, such as k. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as 'u.' This article covers standard abbreviations in colloquial and official use. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. This List of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language.

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