Editing Hungarian language (section)

====Extremely long words====
* ''megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért''
: Partition to root and suffixes with explanations:
{|class="wikitable"
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| meg- || verb prefix; in this case, it means "completed"
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| szent || holy (the word root)
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| -ség || like English "-ness", as in "holiness"
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| -t(e)len || variant of "-tlen", noun suffix expressing the lack of something; like English "-less", as in "useless"
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| -ít || constitutes a transitive verb from an adjective
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| -het || expresses possibility; somewhat similar to the English modal verbs "may" or "can"
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| -(e)tlen || another variant of "-tlen"
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| -ség || (see above)
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| -es || constitutes an adjective from a noun; like English "-y" as in "witty"
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| -ked || attached to an adjective (e.g. "strong"), produces the verb "to pretend to be (strong)" <!-- cf. "okoskodik", "erősködik"; the "-ik" is dropped due to the further suffixes, thus it is better not to mark it in the table -->
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| -és || constitutes a noun from a verb; there are various ways this is done in English, e.g. "-ance" in "acceptance"
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| -eitek || plural possessive suffix, second-person plural (e.g. "apple" → "your apples", where "your" refers to multiple people)
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| -ért || approximately translates to "because of", or in this case simply "for"
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: '''Translation:''' "for your [plural] repeated pretending to be indesecratable"<!-- the element "repeated" comes from -ségeskedés-, which can refer to a constant and annoying habit-->

The above word is often considered to be the longest word in Hungarian, although there are longer words like:
* ''legeslegmegszentségteleníttethetetlenebbjeitekként''
: ''leges-leg-meg-'''''szent'''''-ség-telen-ít-tet-het-etlen-ebb-je-i-tek-ként''
: "like those of you that are the very least possible to get desecrated"

Words of such length are not used in practice and are difficult to understand even for natives. They were invented to show, in a somewhat facetious way, the ability of the language to form long words (see [[agglutinative language]]). They are not compound words but are formed by adding a series of one- and two-syllable suffixes (and a few prefixes) to a simple root ("szent", saint or holy).
There is virtually no limit for the length of words, but when too many suffixes are added, the meaning of the word becomes less clear, and the word becomes hard to understand and will work like a riddle even for native speakers.