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Old 12-09-23, 09:24
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Originally Posted by Jakko Westerbeke View Post
Except as one word, since compound nouns are never separated in German¹ Well, except for line breaks, which is probably necessary if you’re putting text like this on a box. I would suggest Truppenfahrrad-Unterstützungskasten with a hyphen, which likely will also form a good point for the line break.
You are right, of course. Do you know what the longest German word is? Try to pronounce
"Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwach ungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz"
It is so long spaces are automatically added by the forum software
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