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You can say things like

  Eifersucht ist Leidenschaft, die mit 
  Eifer sucht was Leiden schafft.

Meaning:

  Jealousy is a passion, that 
  zealously searches what brings suffering.

By the way, if you enjoy german you should try learning czech, it's similarly lyrical.

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A Czech told me that Czech is possibly the most complicated language of the world. Not really difficult but you have to learn hundreds of different forms.

Czech is complex, but there are way less exceptions compared to german. Pronunciation is literal, if you know how a word is spelled you know how to pronounce it.

Then it has high phonemic orthography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography).

Oh you should try Hungarian then ... Studied both for a while. At least for me Hungarian was magnitudes worse to learn.

Still both languages have interesting concepts.

I always enjoyed Elefantenrennen: Literally meaning "Elephant Racing".

(If anyone is curious and can't read DE wikipedia, its when a truck tries to pass another truck on a highway and can't get by immediately, thus slowing all the traffic behind.)

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