What is the longest word you can make from Deutsche Mark?
What is the longest word you can make from Deutsche Mark?
At 80 letters, the longest word ever composed in German is Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft, the “Association for Subordinate Officials of the Head Office Management of the Danube Steamboat Electrical Services”.
What is the longest German word Wikipedia?
A 79 letter word, Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft, was named the longest published word in the German language by the 1972 Guinness Book of World Records, but longer words are possible.
What is the longest word that takes 3.5 hours?
That’s called: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and it’s one of the longest words in the dictionary.
Why is Germany not Deutschland?
Many countries have a name that they call themselves (known as an endonym) but are called different names by other countries (known as an exonym). Germany, for example, was called Germany by its inhabitants long before the country was united and began to call itself Deutschland.
How did we get Germany from Deutschland?
The root of the name is from the Gauls, who called the tribe across the river the Germani, which might have meant “neighbor” or maybe “men of the forest.” English borrowed the name in turn and anglicized the ending to get Germany.
Which is the longest word in German dictionary?
Long German words were in the news this year when many sources reported that Germany had “lost its longest word” because the European Union removed a law from its books called (*ahem*): Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (the law for the delegation of monitoring beef labeling).
Are there any German words that are infinitely long?
In theory, a German word can be infinitely long. Unlike in English, an extra concept can simply be added to the existing word indefinitely. Such extended words are sometimes known as Bandwurmwörter – “tapeworm words”. In an essay on the Germany language, Mark Twain observed: “Some German words are so long that they have a perspective.”
What are some of the long compound words in German?
German is known for its extra long compound words. When Mark Twain complained that some German words were “so long they have a perspective,” he was thinking of words like Freundschaftsbezeigungen (demonstrations of friendship) and Generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen (general states representatives meetings).
Why are so many German words so long?
Compound words exist in many languages, but German’s grammar construction in particular lends itself to easily tacking on parts to make single words stretch across a page. As a result, the language is rife with lanky terms. As Mark Twain put it, “Some German words are so long that they have perspective.”
