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What is the longest word in your language, and what does it mean in English? (feddit.uk)

submitted 4 days ago by Diddlydee@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I love the German word verbesserungsbedürftig, meaning in need of improvement. I'm not German, but thought this was a cracking word.

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[–] ezdrift@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

In Estonian, we traditionally consider the word kuulilennuteetunneliluuk - the hatch of the tunnel for the bullet's flight path, to be the longest, but as with German, arbitrarily large words are possible.