TLDR: English and German both have compounds, but German additionally has simple rules to form and decline nouns from participles.
E.g.:
werdend = becoming
Werdender = someone (male), who is becoming
Fun fact: These participles always have a neutral plural, so they are gender neutral and are thus abused all over the place. In official documents the German language is losing all of its proper nouns, until everything is built out of participles.
E.g.:
werdend = becoming
Werdender = someone (male), who is becoming
Fun fact: These participles always have a neutral plural, so they are gender neutral and are thus abused all over the place. In official documents the German language is losing all of its proper nouns, until everything is built out of participles.
E.g.:
Studenten = students (male)
Studentinnen = students (female)
Studierende = people, who study