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What is the longest and the hardest word in German? I would be very pleased if you sent me a pronunciation :>
What is the longest and the hardest word in German? I would be very pleased if you sent me a pronunciation :>
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The longest I could think of right now is „Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft“ or „Donau-Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft“ ;)
But you will never need this word in your everyday life.
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In german it's possible to mix words together (not every word, I don't really know how to describe it) and to make the word longer and longer, the longest one that I know, but it's jut some fun word you'll never use, is " Rhabarberbarbarabarbarbarenbartbabierbierbarbärbel" it describes a person named "Bärbel" which works in a "Beer Bar " (is that an English word?) which is related to the guests of the bar of a person named "Barbara" . (Sorry, I skipped a few parts in between, it would take too long to translate it completely)
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I don't know how good your understanding of spoken german is, but you could search for "Rhababer-Barbara-Bar" on YouTube , it's a little story about how that long word was formed :)
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@Emillaa The "Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft" is like an association for shipping along the Danube in Vienna.
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