The Latest news from
Schleicher Sprachservice

Trend 5: The “Konjunktiv” is being used increasingly rarely to express indirect or reported speech Nowadays, most Germans would not see any problem in the following sentence: „Der Vorsitzende der Gesellschaft...

Trend 4: The definite article is omitted more often than in the past. As late as 2000, the style guide of a then quite conservative German “Anwaltskanzlei” that was on its way to becoming an international...

Trend 3: More prepositions, fewer datives: Whereas in the past the German verb “haften” – which means to be liable – had to be followed by the dative case, nowadays collocations...

Here comes part 2: Trend 2: Legal terms that have been used for decades become replaced by Anglicisms Let’s take the matter of control in company law, which in German legal terms used to be named...