The Awful German Language (1880)

The compositional powers of German, Dutch and plenty of other languages are really amazing. People invent words on the fly and promptly forget immediately after and the listener just understands what has been said. In my Dutch native language, we had the word "pausbaar" (which means something like "in possession of the necessary properties to become pope) coming up recently.

Ah, I read "pausbaar" as the "ability to pause" since "pauzebaar" would be odd to say :')

if you want to build "ability to be paused" you would end up with "pauzeerbaar" from "pauzeren" (to pause)