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The word with the most forms, also the longest word in the world is the English 'strawberry'.

   strawberry
   strawberry-less
   strawberry-less-ness
   strawberry-less-ness-less
   strawberry-less-ness-less-ness
   .
   .
   .
   ∞

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Except that all the forms listed there actually mean something and could be used in everyday conversations (some of them are pretty rare, of course). In English those would be communicated by a lot of prepositions. Take "kauppoinennekaan" [1], that would roughly mean "not even with your (plural) shops".

[1] Dashes are on the page for clarity, they're not part of Finnish language

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