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compoundwords are marvelous <3
coumpoundwordsareamarvelouszeuge.
No, compound words are usually just compound nouns. Exactly the same as in English, except the space is missing.
English does that too sometimes, look at the "closed" compounds:
https://eslforums.com/compound-words/
i really dont like that "compound word" is not a proper compoundword.
i hope my mispelling spreads far enough to remedy this.
Good point, Küchenentlüftungsschießeinrichtung
It's 3:30 AM and I'm giggling like an asshole
Like... Fire things, green things, bed things, playing things and hundreds of other things. Love it almost as much as animals that are just something-animal. Like bag-animal (marsupial), beak-animal (platypus) or belt-animal (armadillo).
I think it's fun how Zeug has gone from a technical meaning to a cute one.
The current meaning of Zeug is something like stuff or unimportant things.
It used to mean kit, gear or equipment though, which makes a lot of sense and is still visible in words like Zeugwart (equipment manager of a sports team or army).
With that knowledge, Werkzeug would just be a tool kit.
Same thing in Norwegian with "tøy" (verktøy, fly, kjøretøy, plus fartøy for water-faring vessels) … and then tøy by itself means cloth or clothes (also available through klestøy)
You can translate Zeug with thing.
Workthingy
Flythingy
Drivethingy
...
Witnesses? They're just ... things. (Zeugen)
the base noun is really "Zeug"