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not anything. As a German I see no way to compound "boiling water". It remains two words: "kochendes Wasser".
by simon_void 7mo ago
not anything. As a German I see no way to compound "boiling water". It remains two words: "kochendes Wasser".
- OJFord 7mo ago'Boiling' isn't a noun.
- simon_void 7mo agotrue, but you'd be wrong to assume that Germans only compound words if both parts are nouns, e.g. "Gehweg" (walk way) and "Springseil" (jump rope) use the base of a verb. We do actually have "Kochwasser" ("kochen" means "to cook", "kochend" means "boiling") but that's not boiling water ("kochendes Wasser") but for water used for cooking.