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Compounding is the formation of new words by combining two (or seldom more) independent words:
| Marmor |
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Tisch |
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Marmortisch |
| alt |
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modisch |
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altmodisch |
| Staub |
+ |
saugen |
= |
staubsaugen |
| treffen |
+ |
sicher |
= |
treffsicher |
The compound inherits the word class, the inflection class and, if it is a noun, the gender of the last (= the rightmost) base word.
The description of compounding is divided into chapters according to the word class of the compound words:
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