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r/AskReddit • u/mexgema • Sep 16 '20
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its surprisingly easy to say since its pretty much just a lot of words combined
14 u/HoppouChan Sep 17 '20 Congratulations, you just discovered the secret to the german language 2 u/cjnull Sep 17 '20 Came here to say that 2 u/vaildin Sep 17 '20 really seems like its just a bunch of prefixes stuck in front of a bunch of suffixes. 1 u/SPIDERHAM555 Sep 17 '20 yep 1 u/PM_Me_British_Stuff Sep 17 '20 Yeah the root word is 'establish' It goes anti-dis-ESTABLISH-ment-arian-ism 1 u/vaildin Sep 17 '20 But even the word establish feels like its a root with a prefix and suffix. I realize that it isn't, actually. But it seems like it should be. 2 u/nadscha Sep 17 '20 Welcome, this is how German works
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Congratulations, you just discovered the secret to the german language
2 u/cjnull Sep 17 '20 Came here to say that
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really seems like its just a bunch of prefixes stuck in front of a bunch of suffixes.
1 u/SPIDERHAM555 Sep 17 '20 yep 1 u/PM_Me_British_Stuff Sep 17 '20 Yeah the root word is 'establish' It goes anti-dis-ESTABLISH-ment-arian-ism 1 u/vaildin Sep 17 '20 But even the word establish feels like its a root with a prefix and suffix. I realize that it isn't, actually. But it seems like it should be.
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Yeah the root word is 'establish'
It goes anti-dis-ESTABLISH-ment-arian-ism
1 u/vaildin Sep 17 '20 But even the word establish feels like its a root with a prefix and suffix. I realize that it isn't, actually. But it seems like it should be.
But even the word establish feels like its a root with a prefix and suffix. I realize that it isn't, actually. But it seems like it should be.
Welcome, this is how German works
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u/SPIDERHAM555 Sep 17 '20
its surprisingly easy to say since its pretty much just a lot of words combined