🇫🇷 → 🇩🇪
How easy is German for French speakers?
Going from French to German (Deutsch) has a composite linguistic distance of 54% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
54% distance
FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
18%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
81%
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Phonological similarity
13%
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Writing-system match
100%
Latin → Latin
Genealogical kinship
40%
Indo-European ↔ Indo-European
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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
🇫🇷 French
Die Universität hat eine moderne Bibliothek und ein wissenschaftliches Zentrum.
🇩🇪 German
L'université a une bibliothèque moderne et un centre scientifique.
🇫🇷 French
Die Musik und die Kunst sind fundamental für die Zivilisation.
🇩🇪 German
La musique et l'art sont fondamentaux pour la civilisation.
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