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When I was learning German back in Bulgaria we used a phrase book from the GDR from which I learned a fantastically long word: Verbesserungsvorschlagsversammlung, lit. meeting for suggestions for improvement. There was even a song that went Mach mal einen Verbesserungsvorschlag, make a suggestion for improvement sometime. Other real tongue twisters in German are Haftpflichtversicherung, personal liability insurance, Herzinfarktvorsorgeuntersuchung, preventive medical check up for heart attacks andBetäubungsmittelverschreibungsverordnung, guideline for the prescription of narcotics.
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Another long word in Austria:
Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitänskajüte.
I just love saying Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche. With it being such a landmark in Berlin you can get to say it a lot.
Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung. It's been a while, but I learned this word in one of my German classes many years ago, which was taught by a woman from . I was told it meant speed limit. Isn't that just the BEST?! Try saying it fast 10 times! Love the way they put those words together.
I love crazy words. This came out of an old grammar book: Dampfschifffahrtgesellschaftsdirektorsstellvertretersgemahlin. Translation: Steam navigation company's manager's assistant's wife.
In exists a title or an award for almost everything. Shopkeepers even get an award when they keep their shop clean.
Arzneimittelausgabenbegrenzungsgesetz! What a little belter! My lecturer tells us it was Unwort des Jahres, un-word of the year. More surprising really is that such a title exists!
I think lebensmüde really is a nice direct word. But unlike stated here before it means "tired of life" or "live-weary". Can get used to adress sombody acting dangerously (Bist Du lebesmüde?!) which is quite common, or someone is lebensmüde i.e. who has a real intention of commiting suicide. Then there is the strange German word Weltschmerz:, lit. world pain.
I really like German but I can't believe that those words are that long.
Schwarzwälderkirschtortenlieferantenhut - the hat of the black forest gateau delivery person.
While learning German at school as a foreign language, once I came across a long word in my Deutsch Russisch Wörterbuch, and before reading some wonderful exmples on this page I believed it was the longest word in German:Schwangerschaftverhütungsmittel -- contraceptive.
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