However, you might be thinking to yourself that English is also known for creating new words by combining old ones.ĭon’t people have “full-time” jobs, and sometimes have to work “over-time”? What about words like “website,” “baseball,” and “moonlight”? This ability to construct new words out of old ones makes German a very expressive language, one that lends English several unique expressions such as “Zeitgeist” and “Schadenfreude.” In fact, most of the words on our list are compound words. Before getting started, it is worth noting that the German language is filled with words that are untranslatable to English.Ī big reason for this is that German allows for the creation of compound words in a way that English just can’t keep up with.
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