Off topic: Longest German word you have found Thread poster: Daniel Frisano
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Daniel Frisano 
Italy
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What's the longest German word you have come across? Mine is:
Durchflussmengenbestimmungseinrichtung
at least so far. 38 characters, and 9 words to translate it to Italian (dispositivo per la determinazione della quantità di flusso passante). Good thing I am charging by target word ...
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| Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch | Jun 19, 2015 |
Welsh beats German every time
[Edited at 2015-06-19 10:38 GMT]
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Jeff Whittaker
United States
Local time: 22:33
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| Floor sander rental shop | Jun 19, 2015 |
[Edited at 2015-06-19 13:01 GMT]
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| Gents, please ;) #MaoriOnTopOfTheWorld | Jun 19, 2015 |
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
85 letters
The longest German word I ever read was "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän", but I also have to mention the remarkable "Schädlingsbekämpfungsmittel"
Was I so unlucky that still have to find a reasonably long technical word?<... See more
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raptisi
Greece
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Agree with Serena about the 'captain of the Danube steam ship'
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Jeff Whittaker
United States
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Daniel Frisano
Italy
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TOPIC STARTER | The Danube must be quite a busy waterway | Jun 19, 2015 |
OK I meant found while translating ... but you blew me away anyway with all those Danube navigation company stuff ...
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Jeff Whittaker
United States
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| My dream is to be able to pronounce this! | Jun 20, 2015 |
I really tried. I was laughed at.
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| Longest English word | Jun 20, 2015 |
is no fair: just a string of chemical names, at least the German words actually mean something.
My favorite is Eisenbahknotpunkthinundhersteller (operator of a switch for train tracks or so I think I remember from German class, long ago). Although it is not as long as those Donau captains.
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| The longest "ex-official" German word | Jun 21, 2015 |
So, not "made up" was Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (63 letters).
They scratched it last year.
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Thomas Pfann
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:33
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The beauty of it is that compound nouns in German always become one word. So in theory there is no limit to how long a word can be.
Robert Rietvelt wrote:
So, not "made up" was Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (63 letters).
They scratched it last year.
So if you liked that word, Robert, then you are a Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetzliebhaber (and have just added another 9 letters to the word).
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| I can't even read it straight :) | Feb 10, 2017 |
Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister
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