The longest Hungarian word

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The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration.

Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért, with 44 letters is officially the longest word in the Hungarian language and means something like “for your [plural] continued behaviour as if you could not be desecrated”. It is already morphed, since Hungarian is an agglutinative language.

According to wikipedia.com, partition to root and suffixes with explanations:

meg- verb prefix; in this case, it means “completed”
szent holy (the word root)
-ség like English “-ness”, as in “holiness”
-t(e)len variant of “-tlen”, noun suffix expressing the lack of something; like English “-less”, as in “useless”
-ít constitutes a transitive verb from an adjective
-het expresses possibility; somewhat similar to the English modal verbs “may” or “can”
-(e)tlen another variant of “-tlen”
-ség (see above)
-es constitutes an adjective from a noun; like English “-y” as in “witty”
-ked attached to an adjective (e.g. “strong”), produces the verb “to pretend to be (strong)”
-és constitutes a noun from a verb; there are various ways this is done in English, e.g. “-ance” in “acceptance”
-eitek plural possessive suffix, second-person plural (e.g. “apple” → “your apples”, where “your” refers to multiple people)
-ért approximately translates to “because of”, or in this case simply “for”

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4 Comments

  1. Sounds good, but, basically it is a non-existing word. Impossible to put in a Hungarian sentence.

  2. Eltöredezettségmentesítőtleníttethetetlenségtelenítőtlenkedhetnétek is the longest word. Its 67 letters.

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