pathetic piss kitten (@kitten)

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

windeln

zähne: putzen
medikamente: einnehmen
windeln: wechseln

es ist schlafenkätzchenzeit :neocat_comfy:

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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

oh wait this should be geputzt, eingenommen, and gewechselt, shouldn't it?

well, I tried :neocat_comfy:

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Dave

@Dave@social.cologne

@kitten
Yeah, if you want to say that you already did those things, the second version is correct.

Also, I personally think Kätzchenschlafenszeit works better for what you want to say, but I guess there's other options, too

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@Dave hmm, what would be the difference? I wanted to say "sleepy kitten time"

Dave

@Dave@social.cologne

@kitten
This is difficult to explain, I'll try, but it mostly boils down to word order and what sounds right.

Most important is that Zeit must be the last part of your word, as you're trying to describe a time, so that works.

Next part would be what kind of time you describe. So Schlafenszeit means time to sleep or time to go sleeping. Maybe other forms of this word / similar words exist (Schlafzeit maybe, but idk), but I've heard this one a lot, so it sounds right.
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Dave

@Dave@social.cologne

@kitten
OK, so last part, it's time to sleep for kittens, so add the Kätzchen in front. Though this is a rather unusual word now, but there's no reason as to why it shouldn't work, as you're just adding two nouns together (das Kätzchen und die Schlafenszeit).
Though if I wanted to express your meaning, I would've said:
Es ist Schlafenszeit für Kätzchen.

But sometimes it's just more fun to go the complicated way

Dave

@Dave@social.cologne

@kitten
Some other complicated words for fun
(These really exist)

Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung (this one is the longest where no vowel is used twice, I think)

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@Dave :blobCat_eyes: god you all must have really big lungs to pronounce that

Dave

@Dave@social.cologne

@kitten
Well, the first one is the example everyone uses for a long German word, but it has no practical use since the company doesn't even exist anymore, I think.

The second one is a very special law that very few people even have to bother with.

And the third is a technical term, I think a part of a oil burning central heating system, but idk if it's even commonplace in those.

But what I wanted to say, no one needs to say those words 🙃

pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat

@Dave :blobcatgiggle: yes, I admit I worded it that way because I wanted to make a bigger word, even if it'd have been simpler to word it as a whole sentence

Ich glaube, ich verstehe es. danke schön für die Erklärung!