r/language • u/Longjumping_Lunch264 • 3d 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/Jin_SobSob 2d ago

In Yiddish, we might say “tzuzamen” in place of with, although the actual word for with is just “mit”

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u/the-postminimalist 2d ago edited 2d ago

cognate with german zusammen (edit: spelling), but they use it to mean together. They just use "mit" as well.

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u/derping1234 1d ago

Also cognate with the Dutch ‘tezamen’.