I love how they jam words together to make new words. As I understand it, German is easier to learn because the bigger words are made of smaller words glued together instead of creating new words with no clues. I got this from a book on the history of the English language, which I will again promote because it was so fun to read:
It’s not exactly handcar, but “vehicle” in german is “drivething” (Fahrzeug).
I love how they jam words together to make new words. As I understand it, German is easier to learn because the bigger words are made of smaller words glued together instead of creating new words with no clues. I got this from a book on the history of the English language, which I will again promote because it was so fun to read:
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language
Plane is Fly Thing (Flugzeug)
You know, I know just enough German to have wondered how -zeug fit into things and now I know and I’m pretty happy about drive and fly things 😂
Are you also happy about play things (toys), fire things (lighters), hit things (drums), work things (tools) and green things (greenery)?