I know the word of "Yes" in
German is "Ja" and in Russian it is "Da".
2007-03-04 05:57:18 · 5 answers · asked by Ronald S 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
There are a few German words that are similar to Polish,
Urlaub, Schinken, Schwerster, but in general they are quite different.
Although English has many and many Latin words and a sentence structure similar to that of Latin languages, is a Germanic language because of the link words like prepositions, conjunctions , relative pronouns and pronunciation tend far more to the Germanic languages
2007-03-04 06:10:28 · answer #1 · answered by QQ dri lu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
German is my native language and I had Russian classes at school and could hardly see any similarities between the two languages. There are only very few words that are similar at all and the grammar is also quite different.
2007-03-05 12:27:04 · answer #2 · answered by Elly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both german and slavic languages belong to the indogermanic (or indoeuropean) language group and thus have similar grammar,
sentence structure and vocabulary.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
EDIT : since some people are pointing out that there are no similarities between german and slavic languages : Yes, there are.
For example, they all use the indoeuropean case-system with nominative, genitive, dative and so on, they both have the concept of grammatical gender, etc., asian languages don't do that.You probably didn't realize that since you probably only speak indoeuropean languages.
2007-03-04 14:22:42 · answer #3 · answered by eelliko 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slavic languages (Russian, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian) are completely different from Germanic languages (German, English, Dutch).
Take a look at these words to compare.
street speak
ÑлиÑа говоÑиÑÑ Russian
ulica mówiÄ Polish
die StraÃe sprechen German
de straat spreken Dutch
Slavic languages are more difficult because of their complicated verb conjugation and noun declension.
2007-03-04 15:16:52 · answer #4 · answered by turbo speak engine ver. 12 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, they do have a lot, in vocabulary but also structure. Just get to us extra Indo-europeans like Fenno-Ugrians with no articles, no prepositions, endless word ending-bendings and totally different vocabulary. Or the African or Asian languages or ...
So it depends what is your viewpoint and what you compare. From our viewpoint even French and English are so similar (any better way to irritate a Frenchman?) Yes, they are, if you look from far enough.
2007-03-07 00:14:48 · answer #5 · answered by marya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋