what is the longest German word?

[Cyril Haearn]

Brot - The german word with the longest chew over

Germany has 365 types of bread
France has 365 types of cheese
..
Might be with moving to Strasbourg or Kehl or SCHENGEN to take advantage of both
365x365 = 133 225
One could have a different cheese sandwich every day for 365 years

What is the shortest German word?

[Cyril Haearn]

Flossschifffahrtmuseum
Museum of rafting
3xs, 3xf

[Morzedec]

I get trouble when buying a train ticket to Par: think I'll give Germany a miss.

Happy days,

[nez]

Brot - The german word with the longest chew over

The winner!

[Debs]

How the longest German word came into use....

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[Cyril Haearn]

Niederschoeneweide (lower beautiful meadow) is a district in Berlin

In certain circles it is called 'Niederschweineoede' (lower piggish misery)

German 'humour', minusplus?

[simonineaston]

I have no idea what the longest German word is, but...
My friends who I saw at the week-end have young children and one game they play with their dad is to see how many words they can get out of a longer word, in the example we tried was:
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Chris and the girls got 88, including some proper nouns, plurals and slang words (they are only 6 & 8...) whereas I, with my ex-teacher's hat on, stopped at 110, excluding proper nouns, plurals and slang words.

[Cyril Haearn]

Can anyone suggest an English translation for 'Mittelgebirge', middle-sized mountains? Fells? Munros?

[Cyril Haearn]

'Fahrtwind' is one of my favourites, it denotes the breeze one creates by tootling along, even in still weather
A good word to motivate one to go cycling in hot weather, minusplus

[cyclop]

Obergruppenfuhrerhygeinisherwasserkurchenmann.......chief cook and bottlewasher,me.

[mumbojumbo]

Borussiamunchengladbachsupportersunionsecretary

AKA Fritx the Cat

[[XAP]Bob]

Still not as long as the longest English word

[Cyril Haearn]

'Falkplanfalschfalter' is a rather nice insult
= Falk plan wrong folder

Falk Plans are those queer street maps with a complicated three-dimensional fold, a Falschfalter is someone unable or unwilling to furl the map tidily back into the cover

[Cyril Haearn]

Stosslueftung
=
Full-monty ventilation

German windows are very good, airtight, so this dreadful custom has emerged: open all windows as wide as possible, leave them open until the room is much too cold, then keep them closed all day, soon the room is much too hot
So one then opens them all again..