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Both German and Latin descended from a common-ancestor language called Proto-Indo-European, which was likely spoken in the steppes of what is today southern Russia and the Ukraine, perhaps 3,000 years ago or more. Both German and Latin are related to dozens of other Indo-European Languages as well (from Irish to Farsi, from Portuguese to Russian, from Hindi to Albanian). Because German and Latin both come from the same source, Indo-European, their grammars are quite a bit more similar to each other than they are to other completely unrelated languages such as Bantu, Chinese, Navajo, or Samoan.
To answer your question, then, German grammar is *not* "inspired" by Latin grammar, but instead both Germ and and Latin grammars are closely related and therefor similar to each other.
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