| Comment | Here's the reply I gave someone who asked me "are there almost thirty different words for kiss in German?"
If so, then only because German forms compounds so easily, for example a good-night kiss in German is a "Gutenachtkuss". But "kiss" is still "Kuss". It's not a different word.
Here are some more:
blown kiss: geworfener Handkuss brotherly (brother's) kiss: Bruderkuss Eskimo kiss: Eskimokuss fatherly kiss: Vaterkuss French (soul, tongue, deep) kiss: (leidenschaftlicher) Zungenkuss, Seelenkuss, französischer Kuss, tiefer Kuss friendship kiss: Freundschaftskuss goodbye (good-bye, parting, farewell) kiss: Abschiedskuss goodnight (good-night) kiss: Gutenachtkuss hearty (smacking) kiss: Schmatz, Schmatzer, lauter Kuss intimate kiss: Intimkuss Juda kiss: Judaskuss kiss, buss: Kuss, Bussi, Busserl, Knutscher, Küssle (some of these are slang or dialect) kiss back: Kuss zurück kiss hello, hello kiss: Begüssungskuss kiss of death: Todeskuss kiss on the cheek: Wangenkuss kiss on the hand: Handkuss lip kiss: Lippenkuss motherly kiss: Mutterkuss mouth kiss: Mundkuss nose kiss: Nasenkuss parental kiss: Elternkuss parting kiss: Abschiedskuss peck, little kiss: Küsschen smoker's kiss: Raucherkuss traitor's kiss: Verräterkuss vacuum kiss: Vakuumkuss
These are only nouns. I could think of many more than 30. I could also make a similar list for verbs. So, technically there are more words for kiss in German, but not more ways to say kiss. You could say the same for anything else, for example tables or hammers, not just kisses.
I have never heard the word "nachküssen", which is usually given as an example meaning "to kiss making up for kisses that have been omitted". It's silly to use this as an example. If you Google this word (with quotes around it to find it as one word and not two words, "nacküssen" instead of "nach Küssen"), you'll find it much more often on non-German websites (almost 400 times) than German ones (about 15 times)! They're all using it as a wonderful example of a German word, but German doesn't really use it, except in dictionaries. |
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