Loanwords are words "borrowed" or adopted from another language with almost no modification.

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Is an “Internetseite” also a website?

In English we do have the distinction between a web page and a web site, the former being the HTML document visually displayed in a browser, the latter is a set of web pages from a given web address. ...
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Do Latin loanwords conserve their gender?

When I asked my teacher for the gender of Mensa, she replied that it is feminine, because the Latin word mensa is feminine. When it comes to words that share the same spelling in both German and ...
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Was ist das Partizip Perfekt eines englischen Lehnwortes wie “booten”?

How do I form the perfect participle of an English loan word like booten (for a computer)? Was ist das Partizip Perfekt eines englischen Lehnwortes wie booten? Ich boote meinen Computer. → ...