valerie said:
So says Wikipedia's entry for Longest Word in English at
No problem -- unless you rephrase the request to rule out trivial solutions such as:cuchufléte said:
above!!! Which letter would that be???
). For exemple: "geliyorum" = gel -i -yor -um (I'm coming). So for a foreigner it seems like the Turkish words are very long. The longest one is: 
That's true, but, in fact, I would not have accepted any of those words, because they were mostly compound words.There is actually no limit how long a compound word can be, at least according to the Finnish grammar. In my opinion the Norwegian wordThe exact same thread has been created before
Since you've talked about it, I might as well comment on it:
.. but I won't bother deleting the above.
...and it means what?The longest Hungarian word is:
megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért
Well, it is very difficult to translate... Something like "for the fact that nobody can make you (plural) deny God".
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Really? I've found on the net that it is of Latin origin... Go figure!Not Latin, Greek.
That's not entirely correct. Look at the example:Since you've talked about it, I might as well comment on it:
"s" isn't a word in itself, it is just an inflection to make the word plural
Maybe the longest non-compound word in Dutch?:
I have learned that this 's' is exactly for German genitive. Do you think I'm wrong?That's not entirely correct. Look at the example:
Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänswitwenrentenauszahlungsstelle
Not any of the S's marks the plural:
Fahrt - Fahrten
Gesellschaft - Gesellschaften (if at all!)
Kapitän - Kapitäne
Auszahlung - Auszahlungen
The "s" is just the letter to merge several nouns. Of course there are other possibilities to form compounds (by using the plural or the genitive of a word, for example).
I don't know German, so I'm not completely sure about this, but I think the genetiv 's' is a different thing than this 's'.
To give an example in Norwegian, the word for kindergarten:
).Another version, with more letters: Epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydelläänsäkäänköhänkin
And what do the suffixes "-je" and "-s" mean?
The "s" added to a noun is not always the genitive. The word "Autos" is the plural of "Auto" (car), for example. Forming compounds by using the plural is well-known all over the world through English: Kindergarten:
Would you mind telling us what that means, please?
And what does it mean?Hello everyone,
"Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka" (32 letters) is said to be the longest Polish word. But some claim it's just a pseudoword, not a real word...
If I'm not mistaken, it's the diminutive and the plural, respectively.
Hmm, but wouldn't it be more like "järjestelmä" or "järjestelmällinen" is the basic word, although derived from "järki" in a last instance? (Järjestelmällinen=methodical)
Oh, yes. What a pity, such a long word it would have been..
Well, it does carry a meaning, when it's "stripped" from the derivations. As jonquiliser pointed out, the word järjestelmä is perhaps better basic word to describe the meaning than järki. It's something like järki (common sense) -> järjestellä (to organize) -> järjestelmä (system) -> järjestelmällinen (systematic, methodical) -> etc. The word is just derived so long that it loses it's translatability. That's how I see it.Ehm ... sorry, but why should we call it the longest word if it has no meaning at all?
Exactly.
