But as I live in Germany, I can guess pretty well, how often a fake english word is used in Germany. Of course, I don’t have official numbers. The terms you see in the list below are ranked in the order of the frequency of usage in the daily life in Germany. I prefer to call them all just as “fake english”, though. The official term for those words is pseudo-anglicism (at least in Germany) but the most common term for this is “denglisch”. Therefore, I’d like to introduce to you the most common of these words in case you’d like to travel to Germany*. Maybe that’s why here you will find a bunch of english words, you might be confused with as they have different meaning than in the real English speaking world. Germany, as an export nation, is one of those countries, where English is more present than e.g.

In other countries you will find the same words but with a complete different meaning. This led to the fact that in a lot of countries neologisms were invented you actually won’t find in the english speaking countries. Sometimes, it’s even unavoidable (think about the IT and the internet). Since the english language became a business language, some of its vocabulary got adopted by a lot of countries around the world.

Why are there german words in english