Long compound words in agglutinative languages

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Post long compound words in agglutinative languages.

As an absolute beginner in this form of communication
I look forward to your advice in this form of communication
and abjectly declare the previous communication has been abjectly terrible
I look forward to corrections correcting my horribly improper use agglutinative languages

( I googkled long compound words in agglutinative languages.)

didn't get it

looking forward to an honest explanation!

I had to Google it. If I understood it correctly, Norwegian is a gem when it comes to compound words, but it's not agglutinative.

I'll add two words just the same though.
Apparently this is the longest word in Norwegian: Minoritetsladningsbærerdiffusjonskoeffisientmålingsapparatur, compounded by the words
Minoritet
ladning
bærer
diffusjon
koeffisient
måling
apparatur
sometimes with an s in between.
It's an apparatus that measures the distance between the particles in crystalline matter.

This little word:
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is the full name of the protein tryptophan synthetase.

On Norwegian astronomy sites I went to years ago I found some real long words due to how compound words are made in Norwegian. It made it harder to understand TBH; in some ways it's easier when the words are one by one, like in English. OTOH, our compound words makes it clear where one thing ends and another begins, which can be an advantage in advanced reading material I'm not familiar with.

Agglutinative languages are: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Turkish, etc.
In this type of language, compound words can be insanely long. There's no limit.

I think this qualifies:

Basanizomai. Greek. It means “I am tormented.”
source: http://www.takepart.com/feature/2016/01 ... -austerity