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I guess it depends on your definition of “a word”. I speak Danish and it shares a lot of concepts with German. Joining or concatenating two nouns or a noun and
by henrikeh 9y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of “a word”. I speak Danish and it shares a lot of concepts with German.
Joining or concatenating two nouns or a noun and an adjective form “a new word”, but the meaning is of course based upon the two other words.
So if I were to construct a word about the car, I could go like: anden-gears-sving-fejltænding. (Literally, second gear turn misfire). Typically hyphens are omitted, but they are optional.
Is that a new word? Not in Danish, it is just four other written with no spaces in between. Written together they describe a specific situation/concept. But there is no new word.
- ivanhoe 9y agoIs this the same concept as when in English or other languages one does: those-words-with-hyphens (e.g. "this is a not-very-good-with-german type of question")
- henrikeh 9y agoI would say that it is equivalent in concept, but it is more of a grammatical rule. For example, "football stadium" is written in two words in English. In German it _must_ be written as "Fußballstadien" -- making it look like German has a lot of "special" "words". They are just concatenations to form nouns.
- OoooooooO 9y ago*Fußballstadium, singular :).