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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 51 points 1 year ago (16 children)

The German compound noun thing also works in other Germanic languages like, say, Dutch, Swedish and Old English. You can blame the Normans (i.e. a bunch of snobbish Vikings who, a generation earlier, decided to speak only French) for modern English’s lack of them.

[–] celeste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Swedish is a Germanic language tf? Just checked Wikipedia and spparently you're right

[–] KrokanteBamischijf@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: The Frisian language (and Dutch by extension) has overlapping origin with both Danish and Swedish.

We can usually grasp a lot of conversational Danish and Swedish because a lot of the words are similar.

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