One of my favourite things about studying German was the crazy long words you can make!,(reply>), Weil das Wort ist sehr lang. It is hilariously long. I'm just gonna pick out the intelligible words in it, Donau, we know as the Danube River, Dampfschiff for Steamboat, fahrts from fahren, to travel/ship, elektrizitäten for electricities, haupt, the prefix for main, betriebswerk being like plant/factory, bauunter as contractors, beamten, as in officials, and gesellschaft for company.,(reply>), +Mattsgeekyscience  But even germans have problems understanding that words (proof: me ),(reply>), +WanderingRandomer English is one of the very few Germanic Languages that doesn't allow an infinite word build. In most of the Germanic Languages, you can build a word as long as you want from other words. My Personal Favorite: Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft.,(reply>), +WanderingRandomer Compound words is very common in most of the Germannic languages - you can do the same with any Scandinavian language too, for instance.