Do German words really that long??
My mobile phone have a German sentence on it, and I found that the words is very very long!
something like beideinungsanleitung
2007-01-02 22:20:29 · 11 answers · asked by Papilio paris 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
German nouns can get pretty long, because you can make compound nouns out of a number of often already long nouns.
Bedienungsanleitung ("instructions for use" or "operating instructions") is a compund noun, consisting of "Bedienung" (operation/ operating) and "Anleitung" (instruction, guidelines).
2007-01-02 22:28:06 · answer #1 · answered by Sterz 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Scheisse = s h i t, in English the sh is the same as in German than "ei" like I and ss than e (a hard vocal to explain for people speaking English, let´s try with e as in Edvard. Hope you could understand what I meant. Sorry, the word was perhaps not the best word to choose. All the best to you.
2016-03-29 05:46:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bedienungsanleitung. Some words are long, some aren´t. Wanna learn German? I can help you!
2007-01-03 00:25:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The person who said adjectives and nouns are all put together into one word is wrong. The long words are formed by putting nouns together.
2007-01-03 02:34:04 · answer #4 · answered by jammycaketin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, "Bedienungsanleitung" seems to be a long word on the first glance, but is a compound of two words ("Bedienung Anleitung").
And therefore it is not much longer than "operating instructions".
Counting chars 1,2,3,.... hey its even shorter. :O)
2007-01-05 05:28:51 · answer #5 · answered by henneholle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can be long yes :
e.g. "Personenkraftwagen" which means ... "car" but you can also more simply say "Auto".
And the longest in a dictionary is
Rinderkennzeichnungs- und
Rindfleischetikettierungsüber
-wachungs-
aufgabenübertragungsgesetz
means
Cattle marking and beef labelling supervision duties delegation law
(63 letters .. I had to cut it so it could be readable in my message)
2007-01-02 22:29:03 · answer #6 · answered by Yorgat 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes they're that long because in the german language, adjectives are added onto the noun they affect instead of being a seperate word. for example, "the big blue bouncing ball" would be "the bigbluebouncingball" if we did it that way. it's kinda strange, but that's how they do it.
2007-01-02 22:25:05 · answer #7 · answered by Eowyn 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
A lot are long, but some are short.
It's not exactly that they add adjectives to nouns, but they're big on compound words.
2007-01-02 22:30:55 · answer #8 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes -- they string the words together. "Bedienungsanleitung" would mean "operating instructions". It must have been handy in the days of telegrams, when you paid so much per word to send messages!
2007-01-02 22:24:33 · answer #9 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yup,German words are long because they are formed of 'shorter' words.Tschus!Aufwiedersehen!(both words mean goodbye)
2007-01-02 22:26:34 · answer #10 · answered by n 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋