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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Atlusb@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Got to hand it to the German language. I don't know if your joking or its a real expression

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a joke. That's just the translation of the phrase run together as one word.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Compound words are very common in German. Some made their way over to English.

Kindergarten = children garden

Zeitgeist = time ghost

Poltergeist = noisy ghost

Wanderlust = desire to roam or hike

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago

Gesundheit = you just peed your pants, slightly.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago

We also have compound words in English, like breakfast, mailbox, ballpoint, catfish, headache, and storefront. We just tend to keep them short and not start mashing compound words together since we have adjectives to differentiate things

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

They usually cram a bunch of nouns and verbs together to make words and skip the other stuff.