Longest hungarian word ever

[hungary93]

Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért

it has 44 letters in it, the meaning itself is easier than it looks, it means, well, let's see, something like this:

for your things/behaviour as if you could not be desecrated

There are several really long words in hungarian language, but we don't really use them in everyday life.

What are you language's longest words?

[Enlivo]

No language can beat the complexity (or length) of German words.

Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz

64 letters long. It was recently made (3 years ago) for a law change, namely "law delegating beef label monitoring" (that's the definition).

Germans just love to combine words together into forming one long snake of a word.

[Northea]

There's this Finnish term for a part of nuclear reactor: atomiydinenergiareaktorigeneraattorilauhduttajaturbiiniratasvaihde (67 letters). There are many longer ones, but they're usually very synthetic (like  "kumarreksituteskenteleentuvaisehkollaismaisekkuudellisenneskenteluttelemattomammuuksissansakaankopahan" which is such a monster that even as a native speaker I'm not gonna try and make sense of it, it was clearly thought up just to make the longest word possible). The Guinness Book of Records used to have (or still has, I don't know) lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas (61 characters) as the longest Finnish word that was actually in use (it means a student mechanic of jet engines, to put it very shortly).

 

We also have fun words like sahatavarasatama (lumber harbor) and the famous dialogue:

"Kokko, kokoo kokko." (slightly ungrammatical, because it should be kokoa, not kokoo, as that is spoken language and not written)

"Koko kokkoko?"

"Koko kokko."

("Kokko (name), put together the bonfire."

"(You mean) the whole bonfire?"

"The whole bonfire."

 

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Germans just love to combine words together into forming one long snake of a word.

Yeah, we love to do that too here in Finland, as is evident above 

[linguaholic]

23 minutes ago, Northea said:

There's this Finnish term for a part of nuclear reactor: atomiydinenergiareaktorigeneraattorilauhduttajaturbiiniratasvaihde (67 letters). There are many longer ones, but they're usually very synthetic (like  "kumarreksituteskenteleentuvaisehkollaismaisekkuudellisenneskenteluttelemattomammuuksissansakaankopahan" which is such a monster that even as a native speaker I'm not gonna try and make sense of it, it was clearly thought up just to make the longest word possible). The Guinness Book of Records used to have (or still has, I don't know) lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas (61 characters) as the longest Finnish word that was actually in use (it means a student mechanic of jet engines, to put it very shortly).

 

We also have fun words like sahatavarasatama (lumber harbor) and the famous dialogue:

"Kokko, kokoo kokko." (slightly ungrammatical, because it should be kokoa, not kokoo, as that is spoken language and not written)

"Koko kokkoko?"

"Koko kokko."

("Kokko (name), put together the bonfire."

"(You mean) the whole bonfire?"

"The whole bonfire.")

 

 

 

Yeah, we love to do that too here in Finland, as is evident above 

Amazing stuff!