Ouch... my brain!
We do a little proofreading on the side and occasionally run into gems like these 5 beauties:
18 letters: незаангажированный (unbiased)
Also 18 letters: доброжелательность (kindness, goodwill)
19 letters: сфальсифицированные (falsified)
23 letters: сервисориентированности (service-orientated)
24 letters: клиентоориентированности (client-oriented)
What’s the longest Russian word you’ve encountered?
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5 Responses
Roman
I recall a funny story I read about 25 years ago, where company names like the later in your post were exaggerated for laugh: НИИВТОРСЫРЧЕРМЕТБРАКМРАКСНАБСТЫДСБЫТЗАГРАНПОСТАВКА 🙂
Kate
Oh man, Roman, please tell me that word doesn’t actually make sense in Russian… or does it? 😉
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Jury
oh, russian is easy.
There are two different words: “шерсть” and “обрабатывающий”, we get “шерстеОбрабатывающий” Just add the connecting letters“ 0 ”or“ E ”and combine the words =)
Or “грязь”, “вода”, “лечебницаl” and we get a “водОгрязЕлечебница”
Much easier than 12 kinds of time in English
Katherine
Mind = blown, thank you for these examples, Jury! Now I want to try водогрязелечебница myself. 😄