just wondering...
2007-02-03 15:13:16 · 6 answers · asked by just_whatever26 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
English does allow compound nouns (such as birthday, carpark etc.) and compound adjectives (hellbent, blue-green etc.) to a certain degree. German (and a lot of other languages such as Russian, and Greek) allow much more complex compound nouns, adjectives and even verbs. Of course that makes those compounds longer, as does thae fact that German word formation abounds in all sorts of affixes (such as the prefixes ab-, über- un-, ver- etc or the suffixes -bar, -los, -lich, -keit etc.)
2007-02-03 23:53:58 · answer #1 · answered by Sterz 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most German words have five to seven letters, but the language allows you to fuse two or more words in a more complex one even a whole idea in a word.
Die Geburtstagsfeier
2007-02-03 15:26:32 · answer #2 · answered by QQ dri lu 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it saves time and space. Deutsche Leute are more frugal and economical than Brits and Americans. Instead of writing "X in the A of B and C something" they prefer to write like this: " BCsomethingAX"
Isn't it just great?
2007-02-03 16:19:33 · answer #3 · answered by vladimir l 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Horse
2016-05-24 01:26:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Auf Wiedersehn
2007-02-03 15:21:18 · answer #5 · answered by MIGHTY MINNIE 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
what we say with a sentence they often put in one word
2007-02-03 15:20:34 · answer #6 · answered by Nora 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋