{"id":4621,"date":"2012-08-14T19:15:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T17:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neuropoolwp-com.beast-hosting.com\/2012\/08\/14\/welsches-ist-das-laengst-deutsche-wort\/"},"modified":"2012-08-14T19:15:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T17:15:57","slug":"welsches-ist-das-laengst-deutsche-wort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/reports\/society-2\/welsches-ist-das-laengst-deutsche-wort.html","title":{"rendered":"What is the longest German word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"newimages\/2012\/L%C3%A4ngstes%20deutsches%20Wort.jpg\" alt=\"Longest German word\" width=\"450\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The German language is known for its almost infinitely long word combinations, which in other languages are divided into individual words by prepositions. If you want to know which is the longest compound word in the German language, you have to distinguish between the longest officially recognised word and the longest word used in everyday language.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The official longest word in the German language is the word \"Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizit\u00e4tenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft\" with 79 letters, which was entered in the Guinness Book of Records in 1996. This was an Austrian shipping company from the pre-war period (DDSG), which transported passengers and goods on the Danube. At the time, the word only had 79 letters, as \"Schifffahrt\" was only spelt with two f's according to modern spelling. According to modern spelling, the word would have 80 letters. It is worth noting the unusual use of the part of speech \"Elektrizit\u00e4ten\", as Elektrizit\u00e4t is generally only used in the singular.<br \/>The DDSG still exists, but is now called \"Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft\".<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Although long word combinations occur more frequently in German than in most other languages, the word mentioned above is hardly taken from common colloquial language. According to the 1995 entry in the Guinness Book, the longest German word in everyday language is \"Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften\" with 39 letters, which is nevertheless shortened to the version \"Rechtsschutzversicherungen\" in everyday use.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German language is known for its almost infinitely long word combinations, which in other languages are divided into individual words by prepositions. If you want to know which is the longest compound word in the German language, you have to distinguish between the longest officially recognised word and the longest word used in everyday language.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_fgj2wp_old_id":["3420"],"rank_math_analytic_object_id":["839"],"rank_math_focus_keyword":["welches ist das l\u00e4ngst deutsche wort"],"rank_math_internal_links_processed":["1"],"rank_math_og_content_image":["a:2:{s:5:\"check\";s:32:\"ffa842ce8c820e67a45101ae16e7c05d\";s:6:\"images\";a:0:{}}"],"_trp_automatically_translated_slug_en_GB":["welsch-is-the-longest-german-word"]},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gesellschaft","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neuropool.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}