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Doesn't German work this way?
by machiaweliczny 7y ago
Doesn't German work this way?
- mkl 7y agoNot really. "German grammar allows for the construction of long compounded noun phrases which are expressed as one word in written language. Compounding is not really the same as agglutination.": https://www.quora.com/Is-German-considered-a-true-agglutinative-language?share=1 https://www.quora.com/Is-German-considered-a-true-agglutinat... There are quite a lot of languages that do though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language
- gumby 7y agoNot just in written language, although the difference between a “word” and “noun phrase” in spoken language is in the ear of the beholder. But in a linguistic sense indeed, German is not at all an agglutinative language.
- pault 7y agoEnglish too. Policeman, bathwater, catwalk, headstone, toothbrush, etc.