B2Word formation20 exercises
Wortbildung I — Komposition (Zusammengesetzte Wörter)
Word Formation I — Compounding (Compound Words)
German productively compounds words. B2: compounding rules, linking elements, and meaning analysis of complex compounds.
How the rule begins
Komposition is the most productive word-formation process in German. Two or more words are joined into a new word, and there is no upper limit: the result is a Kompositum. In German you can in theory build endlessly long compounds.
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