Just wondering what's the longest Russian word that you know of. So far I've found the word "достопримечательность", which in the tourism industry is a common and important word.
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Just wondering what's the longest Russian word that you know of. So far I've found the word "достопримечательность", which in the tourism industry is a common and important word.
Wow, the Russian wiki is really thorough. The longest word that's used with any degree of frequency is человеконенавистничество a 24 letter word meaning hatred of mankind. Emmmmmm, not such a nice word after all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramil
And in English:
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (technical term) - a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust causing inflammation in the lungs
Floccinaucinihilipilification (non-technical, coined) - the act of describing something as worthless
Antidisestablishmentarianism (neither technical nor coined)
Honorificabilitudinitatibus (longest word shakespeare ever used) - the state of being able to achieve honors
Of course, you could make these words longer by agglutination, adding more suffixes and so on.
So you could say floccinaucinihilipilificationismificationismize and so on to infinity.
This one is also coined for the Guinness Book (?).Quote:
Originally Posted by Trzeci_Wymiar
It is claimed that the longest Bulgarian word is the one given below:
Не противоконституционствува телствувайте! - Do not act against the Constitution!
That's interesting. Is Russian the main language there too?Quote:
Originally Posted by christo_tamarin
No. Strangely enough, it's Bulgarian. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tohca
Well, well. They looked similar. Are they?Quote:
Originally Posted by xRoosterx
Bulgarian monks Cyril and Mefodius brought the letters for ancient slavic language.
That explains the similar writing, but are the vocabulary and grammar similar too? I'm sure it cannot be identical.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leof
They are similar to some extent. It's Slav language, after all. But in Russian the "....конституционствувателс вувайте" part would be different. "Конститутствуйте", for example, or something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by tohca
Yeah, it really has no practical application and was contrived for the sole purpose of smashing records.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rtyom
Not exactly. Some words may be similar, but Bulgarian almost completely eradicated the case system (one of the main features of Slavic languages). For example, instead of the genitive they use the preposition "на".Quote:
Originally Posted by tohca
Thanks for the interesting info. You guys really know so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yazeed
A lot of Old Church Slavonic words entered the Russian language. Old Church Slavonic was basically a dialect of Bulgarian, this is why Russian and Bulgarian are more similar, than say Polish and Bulgarian.
Come on surely you must have a basic understanding of how languages work?Quote:
Originally Posted by tohca
German and English look similar, does that mean they are the same language? Bulgarian and Russian are both Slavonic (/Slavic) languages, i.e. they belong to the same language family, they have a lot in common.
It's funny that the longest word in French (not including chemical terms) is also about constitution :Quote:
Originally Posted by christo_tamarin
"Anticonstitutionnellement" (25 letters) means "against the Constitution".
But, well, they have common roots right ;-)
If in Russian you said:
"the one hundred and twenty six million five hundred and ninety two thousand three hundred and four year-old witch"
In theory, couldn't you construct a single Russian word ending:
-летний ???
:mrgreen: Столько не живут.Quote:
Originally Posted by TATY
стодвадцатишестимиллионна япятьсотдевяностодвухтыся чнаятристачетырехлетняя ведьма =))))Quote:
Originally Posted by TATY
По-моему так.Quote:
Originally Posted by BappaBa
Да, наверное, так. =) Увлекся числами. =)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramil
Почему ста-, а не сто-?
И по-моему — -дветысячи-