Perhaps because many German native speakers have a hard time pronouncing the "th" sound, it also seemed to be a pretty clever, efficient way of getting around that "th" messiness. "Dank(e)," of course, is German for "thanks" and seemed to so organically spill out of their mouths. Seen in an email Maxim forwarded to me recently, was also mentioned in one of my previous blog posts.One of the sweetest things both of my twins said to me when they were learning to speak was "Dank you." Raising them with a German father and me as a US-American mother (in Germany), it appeared to be the penultimate expression of bilingual politeness. Literal translation: Lösung = solution, Mittel = material or means, Rückgewinnung = recovery ( rück = prefix re-). What it means: the process of recovering a solvent from an extract Seen in a PowerPoint presentation for one of my classes this semester. Although, to be fair, I'd also never seen this in Germany before either. The concept of a wet umbrella bag dispenser must be a German thing because I've never seen anything like this in the U.S. Literal translation: Regen = rain, Schirm = shield, Beutel = bag, Spender = donor What it means: dispenser for bags for your wet umbrella
Seen at a shopping center in Leipzig (see photo above). Here are just a few examples of long German words I've come across recently. In everyday speech those long German words don't come along too frequently (although it does happen), but if you get into a specialized subject with lots of specific terminology it can get really fun.
"coffee table") or just create a new word for each thing. to stick several words together to make a new word, whereas some other European languages like English and Spanish either leave compounds as separate words (i.e. This is because German has a tendency to make compound words, i.e. This is no myth long German words can be found in a wide wariety of contexts. One of the few things that most Americans seem to know about the German language is that the words can get really long.
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