Docs Languages
German (Deutsch)
Code de. Not reviewed by a native speaker.
This page is generated by bun run docs:languages from the pack in src/core/lang/de.ts. Do not edit it by hand: src/lang-docs.test.ts fails when it is out of date. A no-break space is shown as ~.
Quotation
| Register | Levels, outermost first |
|---|---|
| display | »…«, ›…‹ |
| literary | as display |
A quotation nested deeper than the levels listed starts over from the first.
Read by where each mark stands, not only by shape: »…«, ›…‹ (turned the other way round from the usual guillemets).
An apostrophe before a dropped-letter word is not a quotation mark: 'em, 'til, 'till, 'cause, 'bout, 'round, 'tis, 'twas, 'cos, 'n'.
Dashes
| What | Setting |
|---|---|
| break in the sentence | spaced en dash |
| break in the sentence, literary | spaced en dash |
| line of dialogue (a paragraph opening with a dash) | not set (dialogue is quoted) |
Spaces
- One-letter words kept with the next word: none.
- Short words kept with the next word, in a title (the opt-in rule
space.short-word): none. - A no-break space between a number and %: yes.
- A no-break space between a number and € after it: yes.
Abbreviations
| Kind | Entries |
|---|---|
| parts stay together | z. B. d. h. u. a. u. U. i. d. R. v. a. s. o. s. u. |
| stay with what follows | Nr Abb Tab Tel Bd Hrsg vgl ca |
| stay with a number | S |
Numbers
Groups of three are separated by ~, the decimal mark is ,.
Sources
Notes
The other German style, „outer ‚inner‘ outer“, is a literary profile that does not exist yet. Digits are grouped with a no-break space (number.group), as the Interinstitutional Style Guide sets for all languages; a point is not used for thousands. The decimal mark is a comma.
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