Sage-Tips

Is French syntax similar to English?

Basic French Sentence Structure The order of other words in a French is generally the same as in an English sentence, with some exceptions. In French grammar, for example, adjectives usually follow the nouns they describe instead of coming before them, like they do in English.

What language has the closest grammar to English?

Closest Major Language: Dutch Like Frisian and English, Dutch is another West Germanic language that developed from Proto-Germanic. Because of this, Dutch possesses many words and phrases similar to English and has a similar grammatical structure.

Is English syntax Germanic?

Even with powerful French influences, English retained the syntax and grammar from its Germanic ancestry. English naturally evolved, much like any language evolves, when humans move from one part of the world to another.

Is the French language closer to English or German?

French is closer to English. English is a Germanic language but has a lot of French-derived words. It also has a lot of Latin-derived words (sharing a common ancestry with French). German does not have a lot have a lot of French or Latin derived words.

Is the English language more similar to German or Spanish?

But German has a lot of Latin derived vocabulary to it, too, specially in professional or scientific settings. But the “body” of the English language is German, or germanic. For us, Spanish is “backwards” when it comes to sentence building, whereas English is similar in this.

Is French harder to learn than German?

It is a Germanic language so it is closer to German (French is a Romance language). You also have a lot of english loan words in German. French on the other hand is “easier” because it sounds softer and the only thing that hard is accent and to some extent grammar.

Is English a romance or Germanic language?

Although English is undoubtedly a Germanic language due to grammatical, syntactical and core-words similarity with languages like German or Dutch; English took as much as 58\% of its vocabulary from Latin or Romance languages (specially French). That’s the reason English language looks more Romance than Germanic.