What is the longest Swedish word?

Ok, ok, well, technically, the longest Swedish word is Realisationsvinstbeskattning (28 letters), which means “capital gain taxation” and is usually shortened to Reavinstskatt. This is according the Svenska Akademiens ordlista, which is technically correct. This is the longest word in Swedish.
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What is the longest word in any language?

It is the chemical name for titin, the largest protein known. The longest word in the English dictionary however, is the 45-letter word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", which refers to a lung disease.
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Why are Swedish words so long?

Why are Swedish words so long? Simply put, the rules for compound nouns in Swedish are different to English. Swedish words are stackable, so in theory, your options are limitless when it comes to character count.
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What is the hardest Swedish word to pronounce?

Difficult Swedish Words (And How To Pronounce Them)
  1. regissör (director) ...
  2. sjuksköterska (nurse) ...
  3. varsågod (there you go/please/you're welcome) ...
  4. genre (genre) ...
  5. trakasserier (harassment) ...
  6. tjugosju (twenty-seven)
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What is the longest Korean word?

The longest word in Korean is 청자양인각연당초상감모란문은구대접. It is 17 syllable blocks – which doesn't look very long to anyone who doesn't read Korea. But it has 46 Hangul letters – so that's pretty long! It describes a kind of ceramic bowl.
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Longest Swedish word Ike know 【Ike Eveland NijisanjiEn】



What's the longest Japanese word?

A funny phrase in japanese is “toragahitowokamoutosurutokinounarinow” 虎が人を噛もうとするときのうなり声。 It is 37 letters long and is comprised of a 17 syllables. It is a very odd phrase, as it is defined as “the growl a tiger makes when it is about to about to bite someone”.
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Do Swedes roll their r?

They do not need to spend a lot of time learning how to roll their R's, and the result is that they will use the same pronunciation as a large part of the Swedish population.
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How do you say CH in Swedish?

Swedish. In Swedish, ch represents /ɧ/ and /ɕ/ in loanwords such as choklad and check. These sounds come from former [ʃ] and [tʃ], respectively. In the conjunction och (and), ch is pronounced [k] or silent.
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Is Swedish pronunciation hard?

Swedish is a category 1 language, according to the FSI. This means that learning it is just as easy for native English speakers as learning French or Spanish. So, this makes Swedish one of the easiest languages to learn.
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How do you say Malmö?

Break 'Malmö' down into sounds: [MAL] + [MOH] - say it out loud and exaggerate the sounds until you can consistently produce them.
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What is the full word of Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl?

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… isoleucine is the chemical name for the protein of “titin” also known as “connectin.” The largest known protein that consists of 26, 926 amino acids is made up of 189, 819 letters and can take about three hours to pronounce.
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Is there a word with 1000 letters?

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It's a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.
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What word takes 3.5 hours to say?

A word of warning… the “word” takes about 3.5 hours to say. The word is 189,819 letters long. It's actually the name of a giant protein called Titin. Proteins are usually named by mashing-up the names of the chemicals making them.
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Can PewDiePie speak Swedish?

PewDiePie. This might seem like an unconventional YouTuber to follow, but with PewDiePie being one of the most popular YouTubers of all time (and a Swede), he does occasionally post videos about Sweden and speaking in his native tongue.
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How do you offend in Sweden?

We don't know, but we've collected some of the best Swedish insults.
  1. Jubelåsna or jubelidiot — Åsna (donkey) or idiot isn't enough? ...
  2. Hon har inte alla hästar hemma. ...
  3. Hissen går inte ända upp. ...
  4. Ljuset är tänt, men det är ingen hemma. ...
  5. Dummare än tåget — Meaning Stupider than the train. ...
  6. Han har otur när han tänker.
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What does Lerum mean in Swedish?

Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Lærum or Lerum, from Old Norse Leirheimr, a compound of leira 'clay' + heimr 'farmstead', 'dwelling'.
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Is Swedish a pitch accent?

Languages that have been described as pitch-accent languages include: most dialects of Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Baltic languages, Ancient Greek, Vedic Sanskrit, Tlingit, Turkish, Japanese, Norwegian, Swedish (but not in Finland), Western Basque, Yaqui, certain dialects of Korean, Shanghainese, and Livonian.
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What is the longest Arabic word?

The actual longest word in Arabic is أفاستسقيناكموها ('afastasqaynakumuha, "did we ask you to give it to us to drink"), which is a 15 letter word.
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What's the longest word in Russian?

Russian. Most likely one of the longest Russian words is a chemical term тетрагидропиранилциклопентилтетрагидропиридопиридиновая (tetragidropiranilciklopentiltetragidropiridopiridinovaya), which contains 55 letters. It was used in Russian patent RU2285004C2 (granted and published in 2006).
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What is the longest German word?

So the longest word to be found in the German dictionary is Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung – "motor vehicle indemnity insurance".
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