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0 pointsmkl6y ago0 comments

Not really. "German grammar allows for the construction of long compounded noun phrases which are expressed as one word in written language. Compounding is not really the same as agglutination.": https://www.quora.com/Is-German-considered-a-true-agglutinat...

There are quite a lot of languages that do though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language

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gumby6y ago

Not just in written language, although the difference between a “word” and “noun phrase” in spoken language is in the ear of the beholder.

But in a linguistic sense indeed, German is not at all an agglutinative language.

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0 pointsmkl6y ago0 comments

There are quite a lot of languages that do though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutinative_language

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gumby6y ago

Not just in written language, although the difference between a “word” and “noun phrase” in spoken language is in the ear of the beholder.

But in a linguistic sense indeed, German is not at all an agglutinative language.

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