Longest word in Turkish
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The longest word
in the Turkish language
is muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine which includes 70 letters. It means As though you are from those we may not be able to easily make a maker of unsuccessful ones.
in Turkey.
After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia
, Afyonkarahisarlılaştırabildiklerimizdenmişsinizcesine which is similar to the current one was popular for some time. It is a longer word and does not surprise people as it contains no spaces. It means "As if you are one of the people that we made resemble from Afyonkarahisar". After discovery of the longer word, it has lost its popularity.
. But, when the same suffix
is used too many times, the word will be incomprehensible. Therefore, muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine is widely accepted as the longest word, because it is understandable for a Turkish-speaker and has use in the following situation:
Word
In language, a word is the smallest free form that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content . This contrasts with a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning but will not necessarily stand on its own...
in the Turkish language
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
is muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine which includes 70 letters. It means As though you are from those we may not be able to easily make a maker of unsuccessful ones.
History
In the past "Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdan mısınız?" which means "Are you one of those people whom we couldn't make to resemble those from Czechoslovakia?" was very popular and accepted as the longest word in Turkish. However, the question suffixes (mısınız in this case) are written separately, so though it is one word, it seems like two words when the word is written. Also, longer versions of this word could be made easily, such as "Çekoslovakyalılaştırabildiklerimizden miydiniz?". For these reasons, the word lost its popularity, but it is still a popular tongue-twisterTongue-twister
A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken word game. Some tongue-twisters produce results which are humorous when they are mispronounced, while others simply rely on the confusion and mistakes of the speaker for their...
in Turkey.
After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
, Afyonkarahisarlılaştırabildiklerimizdenmişsinizcesine which is similar to the current one was popular for some time. It is a longer word and does not surprise people as it contains no spaces. It means "As if you are one of the people that we made resemble from Afyonkarahisar". After discovery of the longer word, it has lost its popularity.
Arguments
Technically in Turkish it is possible to make a word involving endless number of letters which is grammatically correct as Turkish is an agglutinative languageAgglutinative language
An agglutinative language is a language that uses agglutination extensively: most words are formed by joining morphemes together. This term was introduced by Wilhelm von Humboldt in 1836 to classify languages from a morphological point of view...
. But, when the same suffix
Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs...
is used too many times, the word will be incomprehensible. Therefore, muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine is widely accepted as the longest word, because it is understandable for a Turkish-speaker and has use in the following situation:
Kötü amaçların güdüldüğü bir öğretmen okulundayız. Yetiştirilen öğretmenlere öğrencileri nasıl muvaffakiyetsizleştirecekleri öğretiliyor. Yani öğretmenler birer muvaffakiyetsizleştirici olarak yetiştiriliyorlar. Fakat öğretmenlerden biri muvaffakiyetsizleştirici olmayı, yani muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştirilmeyi reddediyor, bu konuda ileri geri konuşuyor. Bütün öğretmenleri kolayca muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriverebileceğini sanan okul müdürü bu duruma sinirleniyor, ve söz konusu öğretmeni makamına çağırıp ona diyor ki: "Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine laflar ediyormuşsunuz ha?"
We are in a teachers' training school which has evil purposes. How to make unsuccessful ones is being taught to the teachers who are being educated in that school. So teachers are educated as makers of unsuccessful ones. However one of those teachers refuses to be maker of unsuccessful ones, in other words, to be made a maker of unsuccessful ones, he talks about and criticizes the school's stand on the issue. The headmaster who thinks every teacher can be made easily/quickly into a maker of unsuccessful ones gets angry. He invites the teacher to his room and says "You are talking as if you were one of those we can not easily/quickly turn into a maker of unsuccessful ones, right?"
Word formation
| Turkish | English |
|---|---|
| Muvaffak | Successful |
| Muvaffakiyet | Success |
| Muvaffakiyetsiz | Unsuccessful (without success') |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleş(-mek) | (To) become unsuccessful |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştir(-mek) | (To) make one unsuccessful |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştirici | Maker of unsuccessful ones |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileş(-mek) | (To) become a maker of unsuccessful ones |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştir(-mek) | (To) make one a maker of unsuccessful ones |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriver(-mek) | (To) easily/quickly make one a maker of unsuccessful ones |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriverebil(-mek) | (To) be able to make one easily/quickly a maker of unsuccessful ones |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebil(-mek) | Not (to) be able to make one easily/quickly a maker of unsuccessful ones |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebilecek | One who is not able to make one easily/quickly a maker of unsuccessful ones |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebilecekler | Those who are not able to make one easily/quickly a maker of unsuccessful ones |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimiz | Those who we cannot make easily/quickly a maker unsuccessful ones |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizden | From those we can not easily/quickly make a maker of unsuccessful ones |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmiş | (Would be) from those we can not easily/quickly make a maker of unsuccessful ones |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsiniz | You would be from those we can not easily/quickly make a maker of unsuccessful ones |
| Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine | Like you would be from those we can not easily/quickly make a maker of unsuccessful ones |
See also
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