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See also the German compound word:

Rhababerbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbierbarbärbel

Which roughly translates to 'She's the Barbie of the bar where the beer of the beard barber for the barbarians of Rhubarb Barbara's bar is sold'

Explanation video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3_tRPRt9x8

(in German, translation in video description)

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If we're going off on a tangent: in Dutch, you can have a sentence ending in seven infinitives: "Ik zou hem wel eens hebben willen zien durven blijven staan kijken." (I would have liked to see him dare to stay stand watching.)

(Although Dutch and German syntax are almost identical, this doesn't work in German.)

Thanks for sharing that. I'm learning Dutch (Flemish) for the last two-ish years, taking night classes). I heard my teacher say you can string along three infinitives, but didn't realize you can go up to seven!

I recently finished B-2 and now "C-1" level[+]---the most difficult so far. I'm going to persist...

[+] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of...

The sentence is a bit contrived, but any Dutch speaker will readily understand it. Three infinitives in a row is quite common, four is not that rare.

I’ve been learning*

In English as well you can build sentences like "It's you I would love to love to love ... to love!", with arbitrarily many terminal infinitives.

In German, I think I came up with one, but am told it doesn’t work because dienen has to take the indirect object (turning some “die”s into “der”s).

“Die, die die Die dient, dient die Die, die die Die dient.”

The one who serves the Die serves the Die that the Die serves.

(die- sounds like “dee”.)

It's nice that the English translation is nearly as selfsimilar.

Lord in heaven, German compound words have always broken my brain.

Try Finnish.

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