Asker: Hermione, 12 years old
Answer
According to the Taalwinkel, the longest Dutch word in the Van Dale is “sand soap soda mineral water stone rays” (37 letters).
This question has been asked and answered many times on the internet and then you will often find very long words among the answers, sometimes with more than 100 letters. That’s because you can very easily come up with compounds in Dutch, so you can combine (existing) words to get a certain meaning.
Answered by
dr. Myriam Vermeerbergen
Linguistics of sign languages, Deaf culture
Catholic University of Leuven
Old Market 13 3000 Leuven
https://www.kuleuven.be/
Old Market 13 3000 Leuven
https://www.kuleuven.be/
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