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veen  ·  2664 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your goals for 2017?

Not as common to string a whole bunch of words together as Germans love to do, but we have some great long words. The longest in the dictionary is meervoudigepersoonlijkheidsstoornissen, meaning multiple (meervoudige, literally more-folded) personality (persoonlijkheid, where lijkheid is the -ality part), s (possesive), disorder (stoornis).

A unique thing about Dutch is that we use a lot of diminutives. Pretty much any noun can be appended with -je or -tje: fiets becomes fietsje, brood becomes broodje. Similar to how the suffix -let changes the meaning of book to booklet (to something smaller) but for almost every word. It's often used for talking about cute things, small things or insignificant things and it's perfect for when you want to sound really patronizing.