Where do German words end?

I'm decorating my Christmas tree and playing with German compound nouns. It's what we Germans do. Because we can.
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[@jkrp5851]

I'm german. It is so funny to see your own language being explained to non-Speakers. Thats a like for you!

[@ayoubsahnoune5613]

You know, I just laugh whenever you speak German, it makes me laugh and smile, I love german

[@carlajts3692]

yeeah i lov it when i hear somebody loves german :D

[@carlajts3692]

carla JtS love

[@ayoubsahnoune5613]

carla JtS I love it and I learn it for like 3 months now :)

[@carlajts3692]

Ayoub Sahnoune​ if you have some problems, ask me:)

[@ayoubsahnoune5613]

I have problems with deklination :((((

[@mumenraider]

wait a minute.. she just combined honey cake decoration which is to be kept on the tree with light in chains is decorated by pretty nuts is in bin in order to separate the decoration from less pretty decorations is closed by a lid in which something is written .Whao!!! Deutsch ist wirklich schwierig und verrückt !

[@TmOnlineMapper]

Why do Germans make these long words? Just because they can!

[@ww2747]

It sounds cool

[@organfairy]

Juletræshonningkagepyntenødsdåselågsskriftsfarve! It's the same in Danish :-)

[@minecrafter0505]

Well, one word I learned, when I was 11, was "Donaudampfschiffkapitänskajütenabgasröhrchenbeleuchtungssteckdosentechnikeraktenschranktürschloss", and this word is funny, because you can start with "techniker..." after the word ends, again, so this word is, theoreticly, endless. xD

[@Feuergraf]

Rhababababarabarbabierbierbar :D

[@isegrim1978]

I really love the "To victory" poster, nothing says christmas more than a shouting dalek. Thank you for bringing a smile to my face!

[@aj_fantabulous5207]

warum guck ich mir das an?? >.< Es lebe die langeweile :D

[@aaron9828]

Viele Grüße aus der Zukunft. Tag 453. Das Langeweilevirus konnte immernoch nicht geheilt werden.

[@myh0my]

Ich bin seit Jahrzehnten hier, rennt es ist eine Falle!

[@timotime9584]

4 Jahre Später das gleiche...

[@somefuckstolemynick]

As she mentions, in Swedish we do the exact same thing. And I've always been perplexed by people finding this confusing. It's really much simpler than how it works in english. Why? In English some words are written separately and some are written together, you'll have to learn it by heart. Well, in German and Swedish, if it's one "thing", it's one word. Honey cookie? It's not some honey and a cookie, it's a name for a specific type of cookie, so it becomes honeycookie. Honey cookie decoration? It's not some honey, a cookie and some decoration. It's decoration specifically for you honeycookie. So it becomes honeycookiedecoration. Simple!

[@MsSheeep]

We only decorate our tree on christmas eve because no one is allowed to see it before "Bescherung", which is the time the children get their presents. I think it's more magical like that.

[@7lilly5]

This was an awesome video, thanks for sharing it. My dad, German-American, was a linguist and had grown up fluent in German. Up until I was 5 or so, he would speak to me (for the most part) only in German. Unfortunately, in kindergarden, I became upset about something, and started this German/English babble. My teacher was fascinated, and wanted my dad to come in and teach the class, but instead, he stopped teaching me. Makes me sad I can't communicate. German is a beautiful, strong language.

[@Hckijmpfs]

Du hast mein Leben erweitert. Es ist mir schon so oft passiert, dass ich über die Farbe der Beschriftung des Deckels der Dose der Nüsse der Verzierung des Honigkuchens am Weihnachtsbaum reden wollte, aber ich wusste nie ein Wort dafür. Jetzt kann ich "Honigkuchenbaumbehangverzierungsnüssedosendeckelbeschriftungsfarbe sagen und jeder wird mich gleich auf Anhieb verstehen können *Ironie aus.

[@ZabavaThePower]

"Honigkuchen-Baumbehang with a hyphen" HAHAHAHA that was GOLDEN! Hilarious!

[@MsShaunaM]

That was just pure fun! And the Dalek VICTORY poster on the wall made the scene! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas!

[@eatthisvr6]

if that word gets any longer itl grow legs and run away!

[@flatbrokefrank6482]

I once went into Cologne cathedral and asked for two cheeses, instead of two tickets - ATB

[@nancydan1234]

Beautiful tree and decorations! Your room looks nice and cozy! Love your videos and all the German tutorials :-) !!

[@Foxcb27]

Even after years, this video still can make my day :D

[@CallunaNightWolf]

This was very interesting. You have a beautiful tree! (And I love the Dalek poster in the background as well.)

[@stanleyroberts2064]

"...no one right in his mind would form those extremely long words." Thank you for confirming a suspicion I have long held regarding the authors of Offenlegungsschriften. Merry Christmas

[@RedhandCDN]

lol....you are a breath of fresh air!Have just found your videos and I am hooked.Good to see you still have all your fingers and toes.Will be subbing,and can't wait till your next subject.Good luck with the reading channel! Greetings from Ontario,Canada!!PJO

[@thisisfoxx]

This is beautiful. The most Christmassy KZbin video I've seen this year.

[@stivosaurus]

One fears that the German language may eventually undergo gravitational collapse and become one giant, infinitely-long compound word.

[@ghenulo]

There are a lot of languages like that. German is probably an example because of its popularity, but it's nowhere near as extreme as some other languages.

[@MrCyberife]

Thank you for helping me remember what little German language and customs I knew. I lived in Hanau Germany for awhile and left in 1987. I really miss it, especially now at Christmas time. I really miss the German markets in the town square. Thank you very much.

[@JonBln]

That brought back memories of the fun we had in linguistics class. :D Frohe Weihnachten, Astrid!

[@Plottoberry]

I love how your Delek poster hangs there all framed and formal like a family picture. Of course I have my own Dalek poster, from Etsy, about 1m², on the wall in my bedroom.

[@vilemnovotny1]

Merry Christmass Astrid! :) I like it how your channel is changing in this time of year. Your teacher nature makes me remind some german words I already forgot from school :) It is nice to learn some german words from French/Spanish teacher from Germany via English :D

[@antonomaseapophasis5142]

I can not believe you have a container of Forestines! That is a portal into a very particular culture, history.

[@kansasjennynelson]

I especially enjoy the juxtaposition of your tree with your Dalek poster.

[@ryhitchcock]

I have that exact Dalek poster with that exact-style frame on my wall. And I love German. You could easily make it into my BFF circle.

[@sk8rdman]

My sister told me that at a Christmas party she went to this year the hosts did what they said was an old German tradition. There was one ornament in the tree that looked like a pickle, and the first person to spot it got to open the first gift, and also received an extra gift. Has anybody else ever heard of this?

[@AsterBeCastin]

Evertime you added a word I thought of the thing from inception! "We have to go deeper!"

[@Trixstien]

Thanx so much for this, I have wondered about this for a long time and you have explained it well. Thank you :)

[@TheAndurula]

Stop! You are making my belly hurt from laughing so hard! Love this blog :-)

[@FLJuJitsu]

Keep these coming. I really need to get back to my German, I haven't done anything with my language skills since college.

[@pittkyon]

Frohe Weihnachten, Astrid!

[@HalWilson]

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing.

[@Freethinker99]

Nicely expressed!

[@manyfails]

echt super als deutscher solche videos zusehen und es freut mich das man die sprache verbreitet (wobei das komisch klingt ) aber ich find eure video echt super

[@RustyDust101]

There is even a German kids game called 'Ich packe meinen Koffer' (I'm packing my suitcase). You start with the sentence "I'm packing my suitcase with" and then add one word, as simple or as complicated and compunded as you like. Then the next kid has to repeat the sentence and the exact same word AND add an additional word to the compund word at the end which still has to make some kind of sense after the addition. Missing out one of the many compound-words starts the next round.

[@paulogriseg]

Ich Liebe es deine Videos zu sehen denn ich komme ja aus Österreich und dan macht es richtig spass sie zu schauen :D

[@JonathanDGibson]

A house is not a home without framed Doctor Who artwork. Very nice.

[@Exgrmbl]

Often times, it's used to give you a rough idea of an object or concept by words that are already familiar to most speakers. In many cases, you can directly deduce the characteristics and purpose of an object by looking at the words that make it up - if you had an individual word just describing this object and you would hear it for the first time, you would have no starting point to speculate about what it actually is.

[@grnlfe01]

I really enjoyed this video. Compound nouns are one of my favourite things about the German language. :)

[@Andre_L]

Danke für ein weiteres Dauerlächeln beim Schauen deiner Videos! Hier in Sachen nennen wir diese Teile jedoch eher Plätzchen :-)

[@MsSheeep]

Schöner Christbaum :) In the area of southern Germany where I live, we have a fun tradition: Whenever you compliment someone's christmas tree they have to offer you schnapps. The youth made that tradition a game where we visit all of our friends (who live in the same village, so we don't have to drive, obviously) and tell them we like their trees. We call that "Christbaumloben" (complimenting christmas trees). Last year I drank 26 schnapps.

[@motriesherbest]

How did I not see that poster? Well spotted!

[@Nogears89]

I love the the dalek in the background ;)

[@Guide2Germany]

yeay, I've got the same baking book at home! Actually, I hardly know any German household without it ;) Lovely video, Merry Christmas!

[@VictoriaP9393]

Such an interesting video! Also, great tree and poster. ;)

[@recklessroges]

Near the end I expected the tree to turn into a Dr. Who baddie.

[@SuperRingo1976]

Thanks! I now know the German word for gingerbread tree decorations!! As I'm due to see a German lady later for Xmas Eve Dinner this should come in handy! :)

[@afroninja1254]

Hey, Mal einerseits danke für diese ganzen Videos, die du hier reingestellt hast. Ich muss sagen ich habe schon lange nicht mehr so viel mich erbauendes auf dieser Website gesehen. Deine Art und dein einehmendes Charisma haben etwas unendlich positives, das einen völlig in den Bann zieht. Hoffentlich schneidest du noch viele Schneeflocken aus oder baust Telefonboxen, lg

[@nekobot]

[@ThePixel1983]

Woah, ich habe die KZbinrin wiedergefunden, die sich eine Tardis gebaut hat! Beim Tardis-Video war ich überrascht dass da auf deutsch geflucht wird, und bei dem "To Victory" hier im Hintergrund dämmerte es mir. Abonniert. :)

[@soyawolfgirl]

i really enjoyed this. =] creating compound words in class was one of my favorite things to do

[@rabenschwarts]

I'm German too and it is still absolutely great watching your videos! Suddenly I start liking German...

[@QemeH]

The short approach:DER, DIE and DAS are definite articles (like "the" in english). Which one you use is a matter of the nouns (grammatical) gender. DER is for masculine nouns (like "der Mann"), DIE is for feminine nouns (like "die Frau") and DAS is for neuter nouns (like "das Auto"). Unfortunately a lot of german nouns have a gender, that differs from the acctual sex. The moon e.g. is male (der Mond), but a child is neuter (das Kind). The easiest way to learn is to learn gender and noun together

[@JamalBOUNASSEH]

Thank you for this video. I love german culture. Thank you to share more videos

[@MoDFTBA]

To victory - I loved your poster !!! and the video as well ^^

[@Exgrmbl]

some example: (eng) lathe - (ger) Drehmaschine it literally means turning machine - the term is also used in english but not commonly. While both people hearing it for the first time don't know exactly what this word describes, the german one actually contains two words that are descriptive: 1. 'maschine' - it is a machine. 2.'dreh-' a prefix that denotes a rotary motion -> a machine that is involved in some kind of rotary motion.

[@arwenudomiel239]

Love the dalek poster.

[@melcsang1]

I love your Dalek :D

[@raisedonradio3]

This has been your best video yet :D I love all of them, but this one was so jneroinefvjindfvijnreijn awesome :D

[@ballerina2461]

I'm so pleased that I can actually somewhat follow as she talks about derivational morphemes...guess that linguistics class came in handy :)

[@freddythomas2112]

That one word sounds like a complete sentence.It was cute that you had to pause to think about wat your trying to say:}

[@UltimateVegetto]

Backvergnügen wie noch nie! Got that one as well! :D It's so old!

[@ANightmaresVision]

Das Kochbuch! *_* Damit hab ich als Kind backen gelernt, ich hätte es noch heute, wenn meine Ma es nicht weggeschmissen hätte während ich nicht zu Hause war. ^^ Super toll! Lebe im englischsprachigen Ausland und finde diese Videos super unterhaltsam.

[@afitzrobert]

Reminds me of an old Rolf Harris song where each verse provides more detail. In German it would be just one word increasing each time. Last verse has "The fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses on the faces of the ladies of the court of King Caractacus". Look up the song on KZbin.

[@Helbovie]

In my family, we keep our tree up until the 6th of January, the final day of Christmas. Living in the US, it's extremely difficult to find a tree this late, which sucks because our tree doesn't always last :(

[@meinTraumschloss]

Ich musste sofort an den Schneeseeinseleichenastrabenflügelfederfinderfrauenkleiderfrabendosendeckel denken;-) Als meine Eltern mir die Frederik Vahle CD geschenkt haben, haben sie sich auch nicht träumen lassen, dass ich eine Tradition daraus mache und fast 20 Jahre später immer noch jedes Weihnachten diese Geschichte auspacke.

[@krywult]

We have it in German, too. Here it is the Hottentottenstottertrottelmutterattentäterlattengitterwetterkotterbeutelrattenfangprämie.

[@heipaadegduP]

Its not only german, finnish and swedish who has long words. The longest common word in norwegian is menneskerettighetsorganisasjonene (human rights organizations). You can build it as long you'd like. You can add "office" at the end, so its menneskerettighetsorganisasjonskontoret. And to the end of that you can ad "employee", so it becomes menneskerettighetsorganisasjonskontorsmedarbeider, which means "human rights organization office employee".

[@waclosh]

It is so cool, how you change the pronunciation patterns when you use both english and german in one sentence. It sound just like my german gf!

[@vielzuueberbewertet]

Gosh, you are a german doctor who-fan with a Tardis... I didnt know that existed!! ...and i like your videos!

[@tekna2908]

I like the dalek poster, it really ads to the chrismas atmosphere! The longest word I know in my language is atomkernereaktornedsmeltningsproblematikken :)

[@baileyizme]

You're the only woman I would ever learn German from.

[@MuPuF]

Forestines, from Bourges :) I hope you liked the city!

[@bbnini86]

You've got a great cookbook! My mom got the same one :-)

[@Nikuschek]

Aaastrein. .. Da fällt mir direkt Barbara's Rabarbakuchenbarbarenbar ein..😂 cooles Video

[@MaDFsX]

The dalek poster is the best decoration ;) I guess the horror music would be "last christmas" ? I get a gag reflex as soon as i hear the first few notes

[@georgecarra]

All I want for Christmas is you !

[@EsmeWeatherwax]

Cooles "To victory!" Dalek Poster, das du da hast. :) My english teacher didn't know Doctor Who, maybe he does now. :-)

[@jammiccalify]

What would the Tardis be as one long German word? Love the holiday videos. Merry Christmas from Texas!

[@Vilde2408]

We can't make a compound word that is quite as long and cool as yours in Norwegian (or we could, but it would be very difficult to understand if it was the tree, nutt or box you were talking about) The best we kan do is: Skriftfargen på oppevaringsbokslokket til pepperkakejuletredekorasjonsnøttene (writing colour on the storage box lid to the ginger bread christmas tree decoration nuts) And that sounds wierd too :) Merry christmas!

[@platano214]

Hi, great video. You should definitely do more. Might I add a suggestion? can you please put the words in the Video description as well. Thank you.

[@BecauseJustBecause]

This is really interesting! Swedish does work in the same way, kinda. I love your tree, too It's beautiful. Languages are so interesting. :)

[@ArcticArsenal]

I have been watching your channel since you built the TARDIS, and I have really enjoyed your videos. The Christmas series has been delightful! Thank you for giving us a glimpse of German culture. By the way, do you still have the TARDIS?

[@Foxcb27]

This is my favorite video :-D

[@JeghedderThomas]

Yeps, we do that in danish as well.

[@GabrieleKucich]

merry christmas :-)

[@norablythe11]

Sge has a dalek poster on her wall! Awesome

[@DoctorPhobos]

I loved German, especially when I was stationed in Germany! I really need to practice my German, because when I go into shops here in the U.S. and I see signs in English and Spanish, but NO GERMAN! I use German with the tellers. Love the Dalek poster!

[@4dianasaur]

You're right, swedish has that so you can create the craziest words :) Great video!!

[@dcox01]

And this is why I flunked German in school. Nice tree by the way.

[@ghenulo]

So did I. I only returned to it in the last few years. It's not nearly as hard as my adolescent mind made it out to be. Of course, maybe I was just overtasked with other subjects in school.

[@leopoldbirkholm]

Yeah, in Swedish we have something called "myndighetssvenska" which would translate to bureaucratic Swedish. That is much different to regular Swedish because the language is passive and you often melt words as you described. The use of comma is also restricted and thus, having sentence that stretch over several pages can appear.

[@BlackKitty73]

Ich hab noch nie so ein langes Wort gesehen :D Dieses war mir bislang unbekannt :D

[@tangerinealarm]

There's plenty of interesting differences between even New Zealand English and Australian English. We're more about shortening words than making them longer.

[@EmoPaintedRed]

my brain was close to exploding while trying to figure out this long word xD