“Which Vietnamese word is the longest?”

Despite decades of using Vietnamese, not all of us fully understand this rich and beautiful language. Not only includes the diversity in tone, Vietnamese language is also complex in types of sentences (single sentences, isotonic compound sentences – main auxiliary…), types of words (adjectives, nouns, verbs… .)

If you are confident with your Vietnamese ability, try this quiz: “Which Vietnamese single word is the longest?”

Think carefully before looking at the answer!

Just a quiz topic that received a lot of controversial comments. In which, most of them think that “lean” to be Vietnamese single word longest.

Another interesting thing is that in international languages, there are also many super-long words that even if you read it, you won’t finish it.

For example, in English, the word METHIONYLTHREONYLTHREONYLGLUTAMINYLARGINYL…ISOLEUCINE is 189,819 letters long! If I could write all of these words, it would look like a book of short stories. This is the full chemical element name of Titin.

According to the Oxford dictionary, some other English words are just as long as:

– floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters): The evaluation of something as worthless

– pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 words): A type of lung disease

– pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 words): Pseudo-hypoparathyroidism.