Well yeah that stands to reason, our grammar structure is still Germanic, which is why they still call it a Germanic language. The 100 most common words are almost entirely basic grammar, like to, be, it, for, etc. Words used to reference other words.
The first non grammar based word, the first actual noun, is Time, which is a French word.
We are speaking French with German sentence structure and referencing everything in Latin.
Well yeah that stands to reason, our grammar structure is still Germanic, which is why they still call it a Germanic language. The 100 most common words are almost entirely basic grammar, like to, be, it, for, etc. Words used to reference other words.
The first non grammar based word, the first actual noun, is Time, which is a French word.
We are speaking French with German sentence structure and referencing everything in Latin.
We’re speaking German after French aristocrats gave us the names for all the fancy things we couldn’t afford when we were all peasants.