• NathanielThomas@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Most people don’t know what “real sounding” sounds like. Just like this German word isn’t real: “Feierverschwindungsgefühl”

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      Party-disappearance-feelings? Or “Feeling of party fading” Man the Germans have a word for everything! But seriously any real words compounded together that make anything near to sense, is a word in German.

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      “Feierverschwindungsgefühl”

      Technically, that is a word in German, it means “feeling of celebration enshrinkening”. Might not be very popular, but it follows the rules 😉

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          Well, it would come from “ver- schwind -en -ung”, so the closest translation to English might be something like “for-dwindling”… but the English “for-” seems to have lost some of the versatility of the German “ver-”, so the closest modern word that comes to mind is using the “shrink” meaning of “schwinden”, and translate as “enshrinkening”. Ultimately they’d all be synonyms.

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            No matter how much you try to chop the word into pieces, dude: “Verschwinden” translates to “to vanish”.

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              Meanwhile, “to vanish” has several synonyms, and it just happens some can be built following almost the same composition rules.