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===Word creation=== | ===Word creation=== | ||
A word in germian is created by looking at the equivalent | A word in germian is created by looking at the equivalent words for it in English, German, Dutch and Swedish to then find the most prominant phonological features within these equivalent words. Then these features are used to create a word in accordance to germian phonology and orthography. Sometimes it is clear that these languages' equivalent words are very much the same and can be translated very phonologically; with cat /kæt/ in English, Katze /katzɛ | ||
/ in German, kat /kat/ in Dutch and katt /kat/ in Swedish, it becomes kat /kat/ in Germian. | / in German, kat /kat/ in Dutch and katt /kat/ in Swedish, it becomes kat /kat/ in Germian. | ||
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====Compound words==== | ====Compound words==== | ||
When creating a Germian compound word one ought to look at the each of the 4 Germanic languages' equivalent | When creating a Germian compound word one ought to look at the each of the 4 Germanic languages' equivalent words to decide how it will be formed. There are 3 types of compound words in Germian. | ||
'''Closed compound words''' | '''Closed compound words''' | ||
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Hyphenated compound words | '''Hyphenated compound words''' | ||
Hyphens are often used when a compound modifies a noun | |||
CD + - + caifa = CD-caifa | |||
CD-caifa ⇄ CD-disc | |||
====Loan words==== | ====Loan words==== | ||