well... ok... one of the most strange german words is
"Flussschifffahrt" river boating (it is spelled right... new spelling since 2006... we've a very nice goverment... changing the spelling of words in periods of 10 years...)
The rest are just postfixes (as opposed to for example English which has prepositions to indicate the relations or words, Finnish has postfixes). The word itself is quite hard to translate, or even to use. To describe it, a free translation would be somewhat "wonder if with? his with with that disorderly manner of his"
no... ß isn't in use for these situations... it is only in use if the S "is" behind "au" "ai" "ei" "ie" and in the same moment if it is spoken hard (like in snake)
in elemetary school I've learnt it as Flußschiffahrt...
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