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September 29, 2025, 03:26:36 PM

If you thought, the French language is complicated, when it comes to numbers, try Danish

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Reply #1 – September 29, 2025, 03:51:52 PM

I do think English is the most complicated of all, now that most the planet, uses some form of it.

Active Vocabulary: Approximately 170,000 words are commonly used.
Obsolete Words: There are over 47,000 obsolete words.
Total Vocabulary: Including technical and specialized terms, estimates suggest there could be around 1 million words.

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Reply #2 – September 29, 2025, 04:07:54 PM

I don't wanna disappoint you but:
(copy from google)
The German language has a very extensive vocabulary, although the exact number varies greatly depending on the definition and source. Some estimates range from 300,000 to 500,000 words that are considered part of the standard language.
The Duden dictionary itself contains around 135,000 keywords, but this represents only a fraction of the total vocabulary.

A more comprehensive picture emerges from the analysis of digital text corpora. A research project by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, based on a corpus of one billion text words, concluded that there are approximately 5.3 million lexical units—i.e., words in their basic form.
This figure refers to contemporary German and takes into account various types of text such as fiction, newspapers, functional texts, and scientific prose.
Further analyses of the Duden corpus, an electronic text collection, show that the number of basic forms has now risen to over 17.4 million.
Another source gives a figure of just under 23 million words (basic forms) for 2017.
These high figures are due to the inclusion of rarer words, word forms, and technical terms that are not used in everyday language.
It is important to note that the number of words grows rapidly not only through the creation of new words, but also through the formation of compounds and derivations. The German word formation system allows words of any length to be created, resulting in an almost infinite number of possible words.
Therefore, there is no complete dictionary of the German language, as the language is constantly growing and changing.
In summary, the German language has several million words, with the exact number ranging from 300,000 to over 20 million, depending on the source.
The high number is less a sign of redundancy and more an expression of the flexibility and scope of the language.

To complicate my mother language, we have the nouns "der, die das" and even though there are some rules to it, almost no one could explain them, me included

But I bet, there are languages in the world, so extreme complicated to us, we can't even think about