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• OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hilfe (help or assistance) Leistung (act, performance or service) Lösch (delete, remove, extinguish) Fahrzeug (vehicle)

  Hilfeleistungloschgruppenfahrze, or Extinguishment help service vehicle

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  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    wait this isn’t just a shitpost THIS IS REAL???

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    • UNY0N@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes. German is a Lego-block language. The example in the image is extreme, but there are lots of “combination” words like that.

      For example, glove is Handschuh, which means hand-shoe. A shoe for your hand.

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Can schadenfreude be broken up like this?

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      • Microw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No one in their right mind would put this word into a children’s book though, it’s absolutely not colloquial. So I suspect sometijng weird going on in the original image.

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      • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I used to work in a plant with a lot of people from Bosnia. One of them said when she first started working there her English was limited, but she knew the German word for “glove” and asked for some “hand shoes.”

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  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fuck I missed gruppen, is just group, autocorrect added it

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