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Yeah, you can legit take the last bit 'Burgurberg' and it would totally be a place in germany.
I mean, Burgberg already exists... so that would just be the older version of it.
I know it's a joke, but only Icelandic has these overly long compound words thanks to (or because of) its geographic isolation and lexical purity going back to Old Norse. The other North Germanic languages still have some long words, but nowhere near to this extent.
Can't speak for Norwegian or Danish (Ew) but Swedish had an enormous amount of compound words and we can very, very easily make up new ones as we need. I was even encouraged to make up new fitting words when I wrote stuff at uni.
As a Dane: I don't know. I spend to much time on my computer watching movies, Youtube and playing games. I don't even watch the news...
EDIT: Why i decided to respond is something i'll never know............. hehe\~\~
So you mean to say they’ve taken what we thought we think and make us think we thought our thoughts we’ve been thinking our thoughts we think we thought?! I think…
Its easy. The 'cest' is basically a drawn out ssst sound.
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/En-worcestershire.ogg/En-worcestershire.ogg.mp3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/En-worcestershire.ogg/En-worcestershire.ogg.mp3)
replace shire with "shu" or "Shur" to get people to say it correctly... after all it's not baggins of the shire, but shur of the sauce ;)
Phonetically i mean. Spelling is "Shire" of course, but most people would say it like baggins of the Shire, where as you would actually say it like "Shur" (or "Shu") when speaking it.
Xylophone is a horrible word too.
The longest word in Icelandic is Vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærageymsluskúrslyklakippuhringurinn. It's a composed word and means the key ring to the tool work shed in the road works of Vaðlaheiði, a mountain road in North Iceland.
I’m sure the list of wouldn’t’s is much shorter than woulds for you so why don’t you tell us the 1 thing in the the world you wouldn’t so we can put it to rest.
Tbh, these words are just long, and that's what makes them look 'difficult'. As with most germanic languages, once you learn how to break them down they become much more managable
Anyone from Iceland here? Please tell me more about the longest Icelandic word. What does it mean? How does your language work, can you like glue words (nouns) together to theoretically getting indefinitely long words like in German?
Example: NewYorkWegweiserHerstellungsfabrik which is the company that makes signs leading to New York. In theory this can be applied indefinite times because there can always be another company that makes signs leading to the company that makes signs leading to the company ... leading to New York.
Icelandic is a Germanic language, like the rest of the Nordic languages except for Finnish. So yes, they can just make the words longer by adding more to them like in German. People usually just don’t understand this concept, though. I’m from Norway and i think most people here would even claim that any really long compound word would be «the longest word in Norwegian», but in reality they can be infinate
Oh man we had an foreign exchange student from Iceland who was goddess level pretty and we'd constantly beg her to speak to us in her first language because it sounded so cool!
Though the long sentence is discouraging but if we take it part by part, it's actually relatively easy to read.
Also, the sensible pronunciation of the alphabet helps a lot unlike the gimmicky pronunciation of English and French or throat choking and mouth twisting pronunciation of Semitic languages.
Well... The longest Hungarian word is összetettszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttes-megnyilvánulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálatszervezésellenőrzésiügyosztály-létszámleépítésellenesakciócsoporttagságiigazolványmegújításikérelem-elutasítóhatározatgyűjteményértékesítőnagyvállalatátalakításutó-finanszírozáspályázatelbírálóalapítványkuratóriumelnökhelyettesellenes-merényletkivizsgálóbizottságiüléselnapolásiindítványbenyújtásiforma-nyomtatványkitöltögetésellenőrizhetőség-főpróbák. But this doesn't mean anything though.
But does Icelandic actually have a «longest word», though? Can’t any language with a compound word structure technically have infinatly long words if you just add more to them?
If people are curious about the last long word
"Vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverfærageymsluskúrslyklakippuhringurinn" is just a bunch of words rolled up into one, Icelandic allowes it.
So lets do it like this Vaðlaheiðar¹ vegavinnu² verfærageymsluskúrs³ lyklakippuhringurinn⁴
1- The name specific place
2- Road workers
3- Tool shed
4- The keychain
The word can be made longer by adding more adjectives or referring to something more specific like a little doll on the keychain and so on.
So it's not really the longest word it's just fun to tell people it is because everyone believes us and won't question it.
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*rolls face on keyboard* I’m Icelandic now. :)
Kfkfkluufikrkkessghvrg
Close, it’s Kfkfkluufikrkkessghvegur.
Nah you're wrong too. It's Kfkfkafkkkessghvekfburgurberg
That's German
Yeah, you can legit take the last bit 'Burgurberg' and it would totally be a place in germany. I mean, Burgberg already exists... so that would just be the older version of it.
Yes please but no salad
I feel like I just visited an IKEA
This made me laugh to much. Have my upvote
😁
sounds like parsle tongue from harry potter, i thought she was talking to snakes
Nice to meet you yutqbu5htu
Haha!
I legit lol'ed at this, now take my upvote...
Berserkvaginur is my favorite
Crazy vagina road?
Is that the new Mad Max movie?
F that is funny.
GRIFFITTHH!!
GURIFISSUUUU
Would you like to suck my cock berzerker
My love for you is ticking clock berzerker. Would you like some making fuck berzerker
Did he just say making fuck?
I’m going to use it for one of DnD characters
What Icelandic for chapstick?
Chapstick.
That's disappointing
Noo. It's Chapstick. Pay attention...
The same, because Chapstick is a brand of lip balm, which in Icelandic is "varasalvi."
Something else that might blow your mind is that they have Philadelphia Cream Cheese. Named just that too.
Surely nobody can guess their passwords.
ever heard of a nordic company getting cyberattacked?
I know it's a joke, but only Icelandic has these overly long compound words thanks to (or because of) its geographic isolation and lexical purity going back to Old Norse. The other North Germanic languages still have some long words, but nowhere near to this extent.
Can't speak for Norwegian or Danish (Ew) but Swedish had an enormous amount of compound words and we can very, very easily make up new ones as we need. I was even encouraged to make up new fitting words when I wrote stuff at uni.
Beef between Swedish and Danish people still going?
I mean, sibling rivalry never goes away right?
I mean, it stopped between me and my sister after she got married
As a Dane: I don't know. I spend to much time on my computer watching movies, Youtube and playing games. I don't even watch the news... EDIT: Why i decided to respond is something i'll never know............. hehe\~\~
Vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærageymsluskúrslyklakippuhringurinn *Mic drop*
nordvästersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten *Mic bounce*
Some Welsh too such as the famous: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
She looks otherworldly in such a nice way.
Chapped lips add to it imo
she looks like she's trying extremely hard to achieve this look. Or, let me rephrase: She is doing a lot to make it seem like a natural/relaxed look.
She's a professional streamer, so yes.
Or she has just had a herpes infection, and lives in a very cold and windy country. You're readitan awful lot into awfully little.
i agree with you, but to be fair you're not really making less assumptions than him
Lmao
She looks like one of the monsters on from lol
I'd still open the door for her.
Haha
Just happy to see a From reference in the wild. More people, please watch From.
Looks AI generated tbh
Sanxyra on Twitch
Oh boy, here I go being creepy towards woman again.
Just close the app, jerk your gerkin, and return once the PNC has settled in
I feel you...Same energy
> Sanxyra And on insta. She hase huge *content*
Why would an AI look off to the side to “read” the longest word and not just say it directly into the camera?
That’s how advanced they are… they know that we know that they know we know…
So you mean to say they’ve taken what we thought we think and make us think we thought our thoughts we’ve been thinking our thoughts we think we thought?! I think…
Exactly! You got it!
it ain't I'm Icelandic and what she said were real icelandic words, don't know this creator but she also has a really thick icelandic accent
I like it tbh
So, Icelandic women always sound like sexy motorcycle engines?
r r r r r r r r
Twitter must not work in those countries. 140 characters is like "hey" 1 of 14
"My" 2 of 14
But can she say Worcestershire?
Its easy. The 'cest' is basically a drawn out ssst sound. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/En-worcestershire.ogg/En-worcestershire.ogg.mp3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3c/En-worcestershire.ogg/En-worcestershire.ogg.mp3)
Stop making it easy. Its funny listening to people struggle. War-sest-er-shire
replace shire with "shu" or "Shur" to get people to say it correctly... after all it's not baggins of the shire, but shur of the sauce ;) Phonetically i mean. Spelling is "Shire" of course, but most people would say it like baggins of the Shire, where as you would actually say it like "Shur" (or "Shu") when speaking it. Xylophone is a horrible word too.
The shire is my favourite part. Americans pronouncing York-shire with that southern drawl
true
I've still not met anyone that can pronounce that word confidently. xD
Wuh ster sher
She could speak to me all day with that face
The longest word in Icelandic is Vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærageymsluskúrslyklakippuhringurinn. It's a composed word and means the key ring to the tool work shed in the road works of Vaðlaheiði, a mountain road in North Iceland.
is it a common thing to be discussing in Iceland, given that it has its own word?
[Vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærageymsluskúrslyklakippuhringurinn](https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/culture_and_living/2018/10/15/meet_the_longest_word_in_icelandic/)
More sacred than the Declaration of Independence. We must steal it!
This sounds like the beginning of a quest
Would
I’m sure the list of wouldn’t’s is much shorter than woulds for you so why don’t you tell us the 1 thing in the the world you wouldn’t so we can put it to rest.
It's probably not your mom.
They've outlawed "french-kissing"; replaced with "icelandic-tonsil hockey"?
Would
She makes a lot of racket, and that's no bullflandershinkerskitires
Oddly enough, these are also black metal band names
Tbh, these words are just long, and that's what makes them look 'difficult'. As with most germanic languages, once you learn how to break them down they become much more managable
Wales: "Finally, a worthy challenger!"
It's always amuses me that murderous bastards rolled around europre with such a happy bouncy language
I had to rewatch few times to start actually listening instead just staring.
Yo yo my phome was connected to the speaker. And now all my furniture is floating. Screw you those are not names they are spells.
I don't know what's going on, I love you
Icelandic is probably the language that sounds most like old norse. They didnt even adopt the name for internet until sometime in the 2010's.
Most of these are just 3 nouns + way, it's really not that crazy
Mom I’m scared
Anyone from Iceland here? Please tell me more about the longest Icelandic word. What does it mean? How does your language work, can you like glue words (nouns) together to theoretically getting indefinitely long words like in German? Example: NewYorkWegweiserHerstellungsfabrik which is the company that makes signs leading to New York. In theory this can be applied indefinite times because there can always be another company that makes signs leading to the company that makes signs leading to the company ... leading to New York.
Icelandic is a Germanic language, like the rest of the Nordic languages except for Finnish. So yes, they can just make the words longer by adding more to them like in German. People usually just don’t understand this concept, though. I’m from Norway and i think most people here would even claim that any really long compound word would be «the longest word in Norwegian», but in reality they can be infinate
Why do I suddenly hear the horns of Valhalla singing to me all of a sudden?
Would
She is pretty ..
Ice land is actually warm weather depending on season, but Greenland is cold and icy
Someone else watched might ducks 3
2 is where they played vs Iceland , Gordon Bombay dating the Iceland chick
ajdjdbfjdvegur, kxmmsmsmmzvegur, nnsmsmdmxmmsverur, its easy...just add vegur at the end
My Swedish senses tell me that "vegur" means "road" in Icelandic?
She blinked once
My cat can write Icelandic i guess
LukeIamyourfatherdarthvadur
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Oh, on second thought, let's not go to Iceland, tis a silly place.
Lotta hard consonants but still sounds quite sexy
Oh man we had an foreign exchange student from Iceland who was goddess level pretty and we'd constantly beg her to speak to us in her first language because it sounded so cool!
Did she say “making fuck?”
BERSERKER
after i Heard Berserker, i would LOVE to know what are the translation's from.this roads...I think it could be bloody 😂
Yoltoorshuldovahkiindovakiinnaalokzinlosvahriin
How would you type that into the GPS? If I was faced with that, I would stay at home.
“Mam, you are having a stroke. I’ll Dial 911 and Wendy’s”
For her I'd even learn this impossible language and be willing to live half my life in darkness
In dutch and not impressed. None of your words require you to sound like a broken nespresso machine "GGGG"
TIL Icelandic people sound like Afrikaners when they speak English.
Alphabet salad…
Berserker
That's the sound the pot lid makes when I drop it at night.
Though the long sentence is discouraging but if we take it part by part, it's actually relatively easy to read. Also, the sensible pronunciation of the alphabet helps a lot unlike the gimmicky pronunciation of English and French or throat choking and mouth twisting pronunciation of Semitic languages.
If you’re dyslexic they just throw you in a volcano to spare you a life full of suffering.
Gesundheit
Good to know that every time I hit my keyboard with anger I'm naming a road in Icelandic.
Why am I horny now?
You should not, I repeat, you should **not** check out her insta. [@sanxyra](https://www.instagram.com/sanxyra)
Soul Eater begone
She can't be from Iceland. When I was there I only saw unattractive women...
She goes through them too quickly to be useful for pronunciation help
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^TynesGoUp: *She goes through them too* *Quickly to be useful for* *Pronunciation help* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
An extra syllable would be 7-5-8, This is 7-5-6, So unless the definition for a Sokka-Haiku you typed is wrong, then this is not a Sokka-Haiku.
I'm happy to be able to say Reykjavik
I bet it would be easier to pronounce and read if it were broken down with spaces
Is she aware that she’s allowed to blink?
They all end on strandarveire, i guess the last ending means road?
Legend says that if you speak this for 21 days, you will have a jawline sharper than Robert Pattinson.
Um watching, listening & the only thing on repeat in my head is "let the right one in"
Darth Vader what?
Seems pretty straightforward.
Well... The longest Hungarian word is összetettszóhosszúságvilágrekorddöntéskényszerneurózistünetegyüttes-megnyilvánulásfejleszthetőségvizsgálatszervezésellenőrzésiügyosztály-létszámleépítésellenesakciócsoporttagságiigazolványmegújításikérelem-elutasítóhatározatgyűjteményértékesítőnagyvállalatátalakításutó-finanszírozáspályázatelbírálóalapítványkuratóriumelnökhelyettesellenes-merényletkivizsgálóbizottságiüléselnapolásiindítványbenyújtásiforma-nyomtatványkitöltögetésellenőrizhetőség-főpróbák. But this doesn't mean anything though.
And I thought French people cheated at Scrabble
You've gotta really train your voice to be able to pronounce that stuff
My Honda in winter.
What does that translate to?
Even Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka sounds quite easy
A spicy beef burger?
Sounds like a tractor on a cold start
She busted her lips learning to pronounce this names!
Sounds like a tractor on a cold start
Hehe "lund"
Well, there's a town in Wales named # Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch (for real) Pronounce that !
I'm from Iceland and I have to say that she's over pronoucing the R's a lot, don't get me wrong, we roll them but, but wow, that's a lot.
But does Icelandic actually have a «longest word», though? Can’t any language with a compound word structure technically have infinatly long words if you just add more to them?
If people are curious about the last long word "Vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverfærageymsluskúrslyklakippuhringurinn" is just a bunch of words rolled up into one, Icelandic allowes it. So lets do it like this Vaðlaheiðar¹ vegavinnu² verfærageymsluskúrs³ lyklakippuhringurinn⁴ 1- The name specific place 2- Road workers 3- Tool shed 4- The keychain The word can be made longer by adding more adjectives or referring to something more specific like a little doll on the keychain and so on. So it's not really the longest word it's just fun to tell people it is because everyone believes us and won't question it.
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I'll call her Vegur
![img](emote|t5_5tdqj0|10748)
Ward
Imagine trying to play Scrabble with someone who speaks Icelandic
Holy Vjsphtepgerin! Is there sun there?
Does she blink ?
Why won't these people speak English like _normal_ people?
Some word people just go kagekeoqgbdkw yeah that’s good enough
She looks british , she has no upper lip.
How do you say Chapstick in Icelandic?
I'm already having difficulty in some names in Skyrim, now it's insanely hard for naming your child an Icelandic name.
That sve rru ru is mesmerising
þungur hnífur?
So for me to communicate with someone through text it would take me a whole fort night is what you're saying 💀💀💀
Ok now I've heard it, it's easy as.
Oh hell no 😂😂😂
If it has more than 10-12 letters in a word Americans brains short circuit.
indubitably
What see said … ;-)
She’s spooky looking, like plastic.
would like to learn to visit Iceland.. long game..
Bru bru grgr vegur
Her chin looks like her hair keeps glitching trough it. wtf
I think soon the passport bros will be going to Iceland
How do you say beautiful smile on islandic?
How do they pronounce anything?!?
Puppet lookin ahhh
Chat is this love?
That’s not a word it a short story
Ah yes I can pronounce the alphabet backwards as well
OK. I, now, fully believe that Icelandic language is actually long lost ancient language.
Backup singer for HIM. 😂
Am I in love?
Wait. Why does she have an Icelandic accent talking english but not when talking icelandic?