Examples of using "Doppelpunkt" in a sentence and their english translations:
A colon is a punctuation mark.
In my language, the "," is called comma, the ";" is called semicolon, ":" is called colon, "..." are called ellipsis, and this sentence ends with a period.
The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.