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Coffee Break German

Compound words - Breaking down long German words | The Coffee Break German Show 1.07

Coffee Break German

Radio Lingua Network

Courses, Learn German, Language Learning, German Lessons, Easy German, Education, German Language

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The focus of today's Coffee Break German Show episode is compound words! In this episode Thomas and Olivera discuss how to construct and understand compound nouns. By the end of this episode you will be more familiar with long German words!


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0:00.0

Hello and He's very likely come to Coffee Break German.

0:03.6

Welcome to the Coffee Break German show.

0:05.6

I'm been Olivera.

0:07.0

And I'm Heise Thomas and Oliver is so shoo and that we're all by the

0:11.4

here in the studio.

0:12.4

Yeah, it's right I'm out there, Thomas. that we're all mighty here in the studio.

0:12.5

Yeah, it's right.

0:13.5

We get here, Thomas.

0:15.0

We get so good, dank, we get here.

0:17.0

In these weekly episodes, we are helping you to improve your German one coffee break at the time.

0:24.7

If you're listening to the podcast version, make sure to subscribe whichever platform you're listening on,

0:29.7

and if you're watching the video version, make sure to subscribe to our channel on YouTube.

0:34.6

What are we talking about today with two German natives sitting here?

0:38.2

We're looking at German compound nouns, which is a very big thing in German.

0:43.6

Yes, and actually I think one of my favorite German words are made up of multiple words and we

0:49.2

look into what the rules are and how they are formed and how people can understand them.

0:53.4

They're good, like we're lost.

0:55.1

Yeah, go skates.

0:56.1

So I am sure lots of people who are learning German came across these words in the past

1:08.0

where there's one, two, three or a chain of words which is sometimes daunting to understand. So today we are looking a little bit how they are made up

1:15.9

and how to kind of break them down to understand them and see if there are any rules we need to keep in mind.

1:22.0

So good, then,

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