Qwen 3.8 27B - Fantastic German capabilities

I am doing a lot of translation work with different languages, and German is just exceptionally well done by Qwen 3.8 27B. It is lengths ahead of GPT-5.6 and even Fable 5. With the frontier models I oftentimes feel it's translated word by word, and the mannerisms such as "load-bearing", "not just... but" etc. were literally translated to German which makes it sound so weird. Even weirder than it already sound in english if you forgive me this comment. This got so bad that I stopped using it for longer texts. But with Qwen 3.8 27B I found such a well chosen vocabulary and sentence structure that impressed me. It uses even words that aren't so common (e.g. "spiegelbildlich zu...") or real German words like "nutzungsverhaltensabhängig" (= engl: dependent on user behavior). It also uses punctuation extremely well. There are very few em-dashes but still uses them where it makes sense. It uses semicolons correctly (better than most German speakers including myself) and the overall sentence composition is very readable while still being demanding for professional texts, but again not too demanding. I found little errors with umlauts sometimes, like "fällweise" instead of "fallweise" but these are rare. TLDR; Overall very impressed by the German capabilities of Qwen 3.8 27B, better than frontier by a looong margin.