You won't believe how long these German words are

[@egorka9468]

This channel inspired me to finally start learning German. The longest word so far (i have been learning for a month now) was Bananenpfannkuchen

[@taylors4243]

Jack Johnson approves. it's delicious and a great song

[@benz.8787]

Aber Schokoladenbananeneierpfannkuchen sind viel leckerer

[@FrogeniusW.G.]

Try Schokobananenpfannkuchen next. Or Pfannkuchenwender. ❤

[@tombeton9300]

Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher!

[@Weedcheat85]

Schokoladenbananeneiermarmeladenschockoraspelpfannkuchen

[@CasparAbbott-cq8hy]

In Germany we don't say Beef Labeling Supervision Task Transfer Act, we say Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.

[@tombeton9300]

"Gesetz zur Übertragung der Aufgaben für die Überwachung der Rinderkennzeichnung und Rindfleischetikettierung"

[@mricelord7545]

"Grundstücks­verkehrs­genehmigungs­zuständigkeits­übertragungs­verordnung" is even longer. Or the famous "Donau­dampfschifffahrts­elektrizitäten­hauptbetriebswerk­bauunterbeamten­gesellschaft" 🙃

[@tombeton9300]

@@mricelord7545 Es ist nicht sinnvoll, Spaßwörter als echt auszugeben.

[@Maggus1510]

​@@mricelord7545 thats not real words...

[@mricelord7545]

@@tombeton9300 Das erste ist kein Spasswort sondern ein ehemaliges Gesetz. Und das andere stand mal im Guiness Buch der Rekorde.

[@sabiner5183]

I really like you two together talking. Relaxing, funny, just lovely ❣️

[@Delibro]

In English you connect nouns too, like football or dishwasher. Just only to a limited extend. Or Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. There goes the "limited extend" ...

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

In English it's basically the same but you just use spaces. Like football stadium m@ssacre or New York port authority building supervisor.

[@Delibro]

@@BoraHorzaGobuchul And that too, exactly :)

[@egorka9468]

@@Delibro oh god, no THAT word again😭😄

[@sircosm]

😅😅😅

[@peterkoch3777]

​@@BoraHorzaGobuchulso it becomes several words... this is, what happens if you put spaces between letters😂 I'd like to rename "word" to "lettersstrungtogetherwithoutsuperfluousspaces"🎉❤

[@bundiboo]

"Bloody Hell" - great English, Valerie 😂 Liam has taught you well.... Love watching your videos - all the way from Australia 🦘🌏

[@SiljCBcnr]

So sympathisch ihr zwei! Good luck with the acting career!

[@M-a-k-o]

This channel takes away the fear of meeting ze Tschörmans and learning their actually quite funny language. Absolute gold🏅 Wish you were here twenty years ago. You would have saved me a lot of pain.

[@lucamastermanYT]

Es ist aber mehr interessant die Engelmänner kennenzulernen und sich über deren komischen Verhalten tot zu lachen. Aber auch diese Amerikaner. Und bevor du irgendwas sagst, we Germans are good at english.

[@M-a-k-o]

@@lucamastermanYT Das stimmt. Wir sind besonders gut in Denglisch. Siehe 'Außenministerin' Baerbock👻

[@lucamastermanYT]

So so, das sagen sie. ​@@M-a-k-o

[@tomiot3423]

So I'm a Finn half german lived in Germany for 4 years and speak both languages equally well. I really can relate to all the content as an "outsider"! Anyhow, a similar channel in Finnish would work great! Our word structure is maybe even crazier.😂 Also I feel like in finnish you could make any word super complicated if you wanted due to the structue you explained. In Germany it feels (fittingly) like everything has to do with a law, institution, requirement etc.😂

[@marcromain64]

The German language has to incorporate all the words left over from the crossword puzzle, the Finnish language has to incorporate all the letters left over from a Scrabble game. The similarities are indeed undeniable!

[@venus_envy]

Wouldn't it be funny if Germany passed a law governing the amount of nouns that can be chained together to create a compound word, and the word for that law ended up being even longer than the word for the law governing the delegation of beef labelling monitoring tasks. The irony!

[@Tharian78]

The dash in Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung is grammaticly optional like any dash that combines 2 or more german words. It can be used to make words easier to read. Only if you want to connect foreign language words to german words the dash is mandatory

[@drunkoctopuswantstoplay7029]

8:57 The German word he meant with the tool was "Kreuzschlitzschraubendreher"

[@lucamastermanYT]

And? Kreuzschlitz-Schraubendreher is the correct term

[@LakiPotato]

I remember one time I got bored so I started learning really long german words. In my german assessment we were told to say something we did and didn’t do over the weekend. I wrote: Ich habe nicht erfunden das rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz. (I think that’s right) My German teacher looked so confused when I handed it in. 😅

[@annikahansen2326]

if you need to repair your car, I spotted a set of "Kugelkopf-Innensechskant-Winkelstiftschlüssel-Satz" in my German car repair shop yesterday. 🤣🤣🤣

[@marcokrueger3399]

You might need this to change out your Doppelkupplungsgetriebesteuergerät ;)

[@btsmith887]

In England we don’t say Blue Danube, we say Blew Dan-oobie.

[@RohailZaki-y5s]

Tolles Video, Liamcarps, du bist eine Legende! weiter so!

[@CorneliaS-i6k]

Liam, das war der Kreuzschlitzschraubendreher !!

[@Jasper-5]

„Donaudampfschifffahrthauptelektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaften“ ist as far as i know one or even the longest german word

[@zak3744]

Vor vielen Jahren, in die Schule, die Beispiel in unserer deutsche Lehrbuch war "Fußballweltmeisterschaftsendspielschiedsrichter". Ich hab das mich immer errinert!

[@niemandjederimmernie]

Aber niemand würde das so benutzen. Ja, das ist ein ein mögliches Wort und man weiß was gemeint ist, aber man sollte Schüler nicht mit sowas abschrecken. Umgangssprachlich würde man „Schiedsrichter beim WM-Endspiel“ sagen

[@zak3744]

@@niemandjederimmernie Es war nicht so ernstes Vokabeln. Es war ein lustiges Beispiel für ein lange deutsches Wort, und hat uns freude gemacht, deutsch zu lernen! 😀

[@NightFall_RS]

This is why It's taking me so long to muster the courage to learn German.

[@profanemagic5671]

In case you're refering to merging words to get super long words: it just looks daunting. The principle behind it is pretty simple. For example: "leather pants" are "lederhosen". "Leder" and "Hosen" both being nouns, you can just slap them together, the "more important/defining" noun USUALLY being the second word (in this case it is "pants" made out of "leather", so "pants" is the ending.) "Screwdriver packaging" would be "Schraubenzieher+Verpackung" resulting in "Schraubenzieherverpackung" , At it's core, you're refering to the "packaging" of the screwdriver, so the "packagaing" is at the end.

[@FrogeniusW.G.]

The good thing is, it's quite close to English and all the movies exist in German sync. So you can learn a lot through watching movies. Also Germans won't laugh at you or shame you when you try. 😊

[@ViewTube_Dan]

Just try. You can “start small” and grow into it.

[@ControversialOpinion]

@@FrogeniusW.G. True, we just hate you silently.

[@dificilhardschwer]

Quit smoking. So you won't need matches.

[@thumbsarehandy.]

I dug this out of my German class notebook from around 2008 - so the spelling is probably atrocious - but our teacher taught us this is the longest word in German (hyphens added for convenience): Donau-dampf-schiff-fahrts-gesellschafts-kapitäns-frauen-verbands-vorsitzenden-aufwands-entschädigungs-ranmen-ordnungs-richt-linienen-hinterbliebenen-lebens-versicherungs-gesellschafts-krise Supposedly it's not used anymore but was a type of life insurance policy for a boat Captain's wife if the husband dies. No idea if it's even true. 😂

[@christiank.8748]

Hört sich genial an. @liam: Wobei man im deutschen in komposita so schön aneinandersetzen kann: Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftsmaschinenbauauszubildendenanwärterkreuzschlitzschraubendreher.... cute, isn't it? 😂

[@jernidis3316]

Sounds about right😂😂😂😅

[@christiank.8748]

@@thumbsarehandy. this life insurance was in debts, great debts - because of krise (crisis, dead calm). And no: not true, I think. But in german you can play with komposita. It is fun, and the (real!) DDSG from Austria is often used for this type of words.

[@MrVisualHigh]

I am a UI/UX designer in the UK (primarily working in apps), we have major client in Germany and the long words are a nightmare to design for XD

[@eliashuber4553]

So that's why all our apps are terrifyingly poor translated and most of the words too long for their boxes😂😂😂😂

[@Delibro]

That's the reason we in Germany have sometimes words sticking over a button, and people think, then why not just make the button wider?? :) But apart from that, English is a rather short writing language, I think you have that problem also with French, Italian and other languages.

[@MrVisualHigh]

@@Delibro It certainly comes up in other languages but German is definitely the hardest.

[@Delibro]

@@MrVisualHigh Ok :) Oh and word wrapping on a button when there is only one line space, so then there are two half visible lines ...

[@carlosburre3307]

Congrats for your channel! Both the German and the English languages are charming cultural facts. Charming, just like the people who produced them through the centuries.

[@PalleRasmussen]

I have lived in Greenland, which has much- much- MUCH longer words than any other language. *"Nalunaarasuartaatee-ranngualioqatigiiffissua-lioriataallaqqissupiloru-jussuanngortartuinnaka-sinngortinniamisaalinn-guatsiaraluallaqqooqiga-minngamiaasiinngooq.”* Consisting of 153 letters. It means something along the lines of: “There were reports that they apparently - God knows for how many times - once again had considered whatever I, my poor condition despite, still could be considered to be quite adept and resourceful as initiator to put a consortium together for the establishment of a range of small radio stations."

[@peterkoch3777]

Nah, you got that translation wrong! It is more like "fsck of"😂🎉❤

[@KahlAlphOrkius]

I wouldn’t mind one of the Scrabble boards. I think it would be a bit of an art piece with each board having part of the word across it. It's kind of like a 7/9 collector's piece.

[@BobWitlox]

Danube is pronounced Da-newb in English. It's a major river in Europe.

[@Hans-jl8ml]

Wrong: the major river in Europe is the Volga.

[@zak3744]

@@Hans-jl8ml "The major" is not the same as "a major". And for clarity, saying "the major" is not the same as saying "the biggest" or "the most important" in English: you'd say "the major" when one thing is significantly and obviously more important than all the other ones. "A major" just means one important thing (out of many important things). 👍

[@BobWitlox]

@@zak3744 The Rhine is also a major river in Europe 😉

[@asneakychicken322]

@@Hans-jl8ml I'm not gonna lie, the Volga hardly enters into my thoughts, if you asked me about major rivers in Europe the first thing that comes to mind is the Rhine, then the Danube. Looking it up, the Volga is simply the longest, ok cool, it's not the most important. Major =/= longest.

[@Hans-jl8ml]

@@asneakychicken322 if you mean.

[@EilertDrewenz]

In Hamburg sagt man Tschüss ( Lied von Heidi Kabel )

[@EnglandVersus]

Fun fact: In English; the fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

[@marcromain64]

Or Sesquipedalophobia, which only makes the matter slightly less frightening.

[@knmayberry]

Dah-new-bay??? Isn't it referencing a boat Captain on the Dan-youb (Danube/Donau) River?

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

The one that had the key? The Donauschiffahrtsgesellschaftdampschiffskapitaenkajutenschluessel?

[@venus_envy]

English does connect nouns, we have tonnes of compound words. A lot of them are so old we don't think of them as compound words anymore. Other times, we have words connected by a dash, and sometimes the dash falls out of use and it just becomes one word. Quite a few examples of that in recent history and it still happens today.

[@red.aries1444]

11:22 It's called "locative", the Finnish language still kept it as well as Latin: "Romani ite domum", while other languages abolished the locative case in favour for prepositions.

[@marcokrueger3399]

Romanes eunt domus!

[@gabrielleroberts7106]

Icelandic horse how exciting can we see it ? Liam very successful B1 candidate and quite proficient German speaker( thanks to Valerie?) could you help us struggling aged B1 students with a few English translations in your wonderful videos

[@richardirmler435]

You guys are so funny. Thanks for the videos xxoo

[@CorneliaS-i6k]

Guter Podcast, gefällt mir

[@sabsieh2635]

I really like your videos and often share them between friends and coworkers wants to have some fun when learning German! I really wonder if you ever talked about such weird words like "Doppelhaushälfte" or general context-needed things like "umfahren" (and sorry, if I missed this in all your available contents) - I think it could be worth if both of you give it a try to point such things out ;)

[@mausegolldig1439]

Today i wrote 10 Geburtstagseinladungskarten...i'am proud of myself!! 😌

[@rin-eri]

36:24 the common name for this is 'black lung'. i think it's only used in the longform word for the 'fun' of being the longest word

[@peterbockholm3176]

Connecting nouns is something we do in Sweden as well.

[@iBroter]

Moin from the gym I am here since opening 6 am 😊

[@lohancsful]

You guys are amazing. 😊

[@yugomix717]

Ich habe es immer noch nicht eilig zu lernen 🤦🤯🙉 Respekt an alle, die gelernt haben 👍

[@yessieyes8191]

Schokoladenosterhasenverpackungsfabrik

[@wangofree]

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. I love how Valerie's face lights up when she laughs.

[@ajaxon319pldunbar]

Thirteenth! And I watched the entire podcast. Love the Carpenters!❤️

[@venus_envy]

Turkish is also wild when it comes to compound words, including verbs.

[@FlyingPhysicist]

I mean... reasonably sure English uses compound nouns... e.g. doorknob, wingtip, blackboard, skyscraper...

[@lucamastermanYT]

Or the world longest word

[@jensherrig3000]

15 Buchstaben? In Germany we sayed Abkürzung😅😅

[@lucamastermanYT]

Nur 15 Buchstaben?

[@chrisboyne5791]

In the Grazer bim, you can find schwerkriegenbeschädignotenausweiß

[@kuroinuwanwanwan]

I love that it’s the longest English, not German, word that “broke” Liam 😂 Also, as another non-native English speaker I felt so related to Valerie trying to pronounce “vehicle” (English pronunciation rules are weird!!! 😅)

[@GabiS.498]

Danke Valerie und Liam

[@whisped8145]

17::00 I say the dash is wrong. It should be an "s" instead. The "s" is a particle that acts as a verbal connector to allow for fluid pronunciation of the compound. You could say it is the verbal dash already.

[@simonspeechley2859]

You need to film and share some of your equestrian activities.

[@davewright8206]

my fave. german words and phrases weg bier , and Backpfeifengesicht

[@marocat4749]

Schraubenziehergriff? if its a screw driver handle, its probably a griff? Aufsatz if the changable front? Bruttosozialproduct? From the song :P

[@fendt_favorit1295]

Also die Deutschen/ Preußen würden korrekterweise Schraubendreher sagen, weil man ja die Schrauben heraus dreht und nicht zieht 😂 Schraubenzieher hat sich aber auch stark verbreitet. Sehr unterhaltsames Video. Grüße gehen raus

[@janniti5423]

Du kannst Kfz-Haftpflichtversicherung mit Bindestrich oder zusammen schreiben. Wie du willst. Der Bindestrich kann verwendet werden um die Lesbarkeit zu erhöhen.

[@marcromain64]

Or write it without the abbreviation as "Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung" to squeeze out even more word length.

[@enisra_bowman]

my guess is that Freundschaftsbeziehungen is a Word from the same categorie as "Lebensabschnittsgefährte" (with 24 Letters) and only used in the stiff "official" speak and also the most Loveless word in existence

[@TheFeldhamster]

Sounds more like it's diplomat speak to my ears. Like, between 2 countries, not 2 people. "Wir feiern heute xx Jahre Freundschaftsbeziehung zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich".

[@its_meeee.111]

I have watched the video till the end 😃. Krieg ich jetzt ein Scrabbleboard? 😂❤

[@nathanielreichert4638]

The hostess bought a new horse? The people want to see

[@ebert8756]

I just had a conversation in which I correctly used the question, " wieso sowieso?" And I stopped to check if I had stuttered and then I thought , Liam Carpenter needs to use this in a video. If you haven't already.

[@Elendrria]

If you have Words with a dash, both words are correct. You use the dash in German to make it easier to read and understand the words ;)

[@ElisabethKreis]

Hochwohlgeboren, Reizreaktionskette, Internetverbindungen, Wasserstandsanzeiger, Klaviertastenfärbung, Futterspenderautomat, Geruchsneutralsier, Zylinderkopfdichtung, Kabelbaumschellen, 📜🔝🦅

[@meditatewithdhyan]

in The Netherlands they have also long long words in the same was as the Germans

[@xAndrzej42]

It's still easy stuff. Try with Chrząszczyrzewoszyce, powiat Łękołody.

[@Noblp]

It’s quite easy, especially if write it phonetically in Ukrainian. Хшащіжевошицє, повїять Венководи. Azerbaijani, also easier - Hşaşşizevoşıtse, povyat Vənkovodı. Poles just don’t like to have special characters of consonants in alphabet for which are plenty in Polish, while three and a half vowels be like eęaąoóyui for some reason 😂 No offence, I like Poland… please don’t eat our vowels 🙏🏼

[@williamwhite7993]

What about your second part of your holiday in Austria A German and a English man on holiday in Austria when are we getting to see it Cheers

[@Kaisertreu100]

Streichholzschachtelproduktionsaufsichtsverordnung.

[@lucamastermanYT]

*Tschechischestreichholzschachtelchenproduktionsaufsichtsverordnung

[@luckystrike8647]

Ich glaub die machen einfach nur lange worte die nichts bedeuten😂

[@lucamastermanYT]

@luckystrike86 ne, die bedeuten was

[@Kaisertreu100]

@@lucamastermanYT Tschechischestreichholzschachtelauftragsvergabeaufsichtsverordnung

[@venus_envy]

Never heard anyone say "Danubee" before. Is that the river Danube, yeah?

[@MarvNonya]

Made it through to the end and i would like a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious scrabble board :-)

[@jaynorris3722]

The Danes have some long words too. It's fun.😊

[@FrogeniusW.G.]

Could you name some? Danish & German are close.

[@emilerhard4189]

Great video idea

[@Squire1588]

I love your healthy disdain for ai Liam, and I like antidisestablishmentarianism for a long English word :) would love you meet you guys one day

[@RohailZaki-y5s]

in germany we say: Mittlerweile bin ich der ehrlichste Mensch geworden, den es gibt, und nach alledem wird alles, was meine Frau kocht, immer „essbar“ sein.

[@peterbockholm3176]

It's called case, not preposition. German and English has four of them, Finnish has 15 so ..... We have two in Swedish, that is the most common belief among linguists, but it could be 0 - 3 depending on who you ask.

[@whisped8145]

11:00 To the contrary. English does have compound words: raindrop, rainbow, moonlight, and so on. English simply stopped making compound words around the 16th century afair. Same time it lost most of its grammar. Blame Cromwell. The only language I am aware of that does compound words better than German is Finnish

[@whisped8145]

Oh god, just after that you immediately mention Finnish... that was weird. Stop doing that! Wait, no... do it more!

[@FrogeniusW.G.]

Tschechisches Streichholzschächtelchen. Badesalz lässt grüßen. 😅

[@MagicChris86]

Tschechische Chef-Chemiker auf griechisch-chinesischen Passagierschiffen!

[@Schwertfisch13]

Christian Ziege hat ein Ziegenkäsegeschäft, das läuft gar nicht schlecht.

[@alexandrairinaandreescu9945]

Kreuzschlitzschraubendreher

[@sebastian8436]

Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung

[@flauschigekatze3962]

I watched til the end, can i have the scrabble board? XD😅

[@nanahachi9628]

I just now realise this is the same guy as the other guy. It's like Gollum, two people in one. Or hats just really change a person...

[@stepanbelozerov2910]

Made it till the end 😅

[@taylors4243]

omg the documents to bring animals in germany is next level. its bringing back a lot of ptsd for me

[@julialange5615]

What about „Müttergenesungswerk“? Even my phone knows it and suggests this word when I start to write “Mutter” (mother)… 😅

[@Maverick00734]

Under one hour gang 🎉

[@TheYazmanian]

29 minute gang

[@nussknacker9967]

Wie wäre es mit Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftsordnungsvertragsregeln?

[@JP-wg1tk]

When I moved to Germany I needed a "Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung". Welcome to Germany.

[@benbear1813]

Matchbox! 🔥🥳😁

[@holger_p]

This second form, where "Rind-" and - "fleisch" don't come together must be a mistake. Sounds like Meat labeling based on cow labeling .. or rather nonsense. The change from cattle to beef happens in this word.

[@morganshepard7597]

Danube? Like the river? Come on, man, I'm not even on that continent and I know that's a major river. lmmfao

[@konstantink.3716]

Schreibmaschinenkorrekturbandrolle 🙂

[@janniti5423]

Are there still steamships on the danube?

[@ProphetTLK]

I know streich is strike and holz means wood. That's it

[@M-a-k-o]

Not da-noo-bee steam ship but rather da-nube steam ship😉 Die Donau auf Englisch.

[@lucamastermanYT]

Da noobie Steam ship. Donaudampfschiff.

[@M-a-k-o]

@@lucamastermanYT Oder je nach Perspektive, Donaudünnpfiff😇

[@lucamastermanYT]

Oder Donaudampfer​ @@M-a-k-o

[@random-yk9]

Aw i wish someone invented a geburtstagsgeschenkeideehersteller

[@PrimeYT10]

the word is longer than the matchbox

[@mikemars5984]

What's the long German word for ' clearing out your box room'

[@Schwertfisch13]

Kellerabteilräumung

[@MyGenderisMechanic]

August 12 2036, the heat death of the universe

[@Carman9090]

I got through the whole episode

[@lukassteinbrink322]

We don't say "Streichholzschächtelchen" normally, it is just "Streichholzschachtel".

[@insidetheuniverse1]

Long German words are just sentences without spaces

[@simonspeechley2859]

How can a 'River Horse' have anything to do with a fear of long words?

[@enisra_bowman]

it's a medical joke word and not a real one

[@SwordQuake2]

"danubi" 🤣🤣🤣