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Die Kopfhörer haben kein Kabel, und man kann sie reparieren.becomesDie Kopfhörer sind kabellos und reparierbar.6 parts · about 3 min
1What & when
In one line
In one lineSplit the word up. -bar: can be done; -los: without. The last part gives the .
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Before
Man kann die Jacke waschen.
Watch the sentence change …
-bar means “can be done”: waschenbecomeswaschbar.
„Die Jacke ist waschbar.“ — The jacket is washable.
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First, what is it?
German loves building new words from old ones. With a few prefixes and suffixes (pieces added at the front or the end), you can understand thousands of new words: waschbar, kabellos, schadstofffrei, unhandlich, die Haltbarkeit, die Verarbeitung. The same goes for the long compounds (words made of two or more words) German is famous for.
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And when do you need it? More often than you'd think:
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