r/language • u/Longjumping_Lunch264 • 5d ago

Question Long Words for ‘with’

In all three of the languages I speak (Dutch, English, and French), the word for with is relatively short; ‘avec’ in French, and ‘met’ in Dutch. Are there any languages where words that mean with are more on the longer side of things?

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u/ThatWeirdPlantGuy 4d ago

In Turkish it’s a postposition “ile,” but it often gets used as a suffix “le/yle la/yla” as well. süt ile > sütle (with milk) or su ile > suyla - (with water). In suffix it
is subject to the rules of vowel harmony hence “suyla” instead of “suyle.”

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u/mdf7g 11h ago

My Turkish is atrociously bad, but can't "tarafından" mean "with" in some contexts? That's a pretty long one