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I'll add that Turkish is also like this. "with my dogs" is köpeklerimle, dog-s-my-with. You can make large variety of "word"s based on köpek, dogishness would
by brian_cloutier 8y ago
I'll add that Turkish is also like this.
"with my dogs" is köpeklerimle, dog-s-my-with.
You can make large variety of "word"s based on köpek, dogishness would be "köpeksilik" which would win you some strange looks if you used it but Google turns up what appear to be a few thousand legitimate usages.
It's not quite fair to call köpeksilik or köpeklerimle words though, it's not like you have to memorize them to learn the language. Just as you can build the phrase "with my dogs" out of words you already know, you can quickly construct or understand köpeklerimle from the suffixes it's built out of.
And just like the end of this list reaches forms which a couple Finnish-speakers have said aren't very meaningful, Turkish also allows for some extreme "words".
Here's the longest Turkish word: muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine
It means something like "As if you are those whom we may not be able to easily make into people who make others unsuccessful". It usually takes a native speaker a while to actually understand this word.
- vesinisa 8y agoYes, this property of a language is called agglutination, and it is not at all uncommon even in completely unrelated languages.