What is the longest Russian word in each part of speech? Examples and translation

What is the longest Russian word? Sorry, guys, but this time I am going to disappoint you: the longest Russian word is the name of some stuff in chemistry and there is no point or use mentioning it, because neither I nor you will be able to read it, or memorize or show off reciting it. I’d better tell you other longest Russian words and try to adequately translate them.

The longest Russian word among verbs is… Well, there are three words like this and all three consist of 24 letters.

They are 1) «переосвидетельствоваться»; 2) «субстанционализироваться»; 3) «интернационализироваться». To be honest, the second two are never used and hardly 10% of Russians can understand their meaning.

The funniest thing is that most of longest Russian words are hardly used.

The first one «переосвидетельствоваться» means to get annually a certain kind of medical document stating your health condition.

The second one «субстанционализироваться» can be translated as ‘to become a substation of some kind’. An absolutely weird word. The third one «интернационализироваться» is ‘to become international’. But nobody put it this way.

The longest Russian word among nouns is «человеконенавистничество». Oh, sorry, completely forgot: there is another one – «высокопревосходительство». They both consist of 24 letters. «Человеконенавистничество» means ‘hatred to human beings’ and «высокопревосходительство» used to be a form of a polite address to people of highest rank and aristocrats. It is not used any longer. Check out How Russians address men and women and other strangers.

The longest Russian word among adjectives is «электрофотополупроводниковый», 28 letters. It is from physics and means ‘electrophotosemiconducting’. A long and useless word. There is another adjective which is called ‘The longest Russian adjective with a hyphen’ — «сельскохозяйственно-машиностроительный». It is translated as ‘agricultural machine building’.

The longest Russian adverb mentioned in the dictionary is «неудовлетворительно», 19 letters. It means ‘unsatisfactorily, poorly’. But there are longer adverbs deriving from adjectives, but they are not mentioned in the official dictionaries.

And the final longest Russian word which is both a preposition and a conjunction is «соответственно». It can be translated as ‘according to, in accordance with’ or ‘respectively’; ‘properly’.

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