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In the German language the compound noun always consists of more than one lexeme. There is an s between some of them, take Arbeitsgruppe as an example, while others don't have it, like Waldblume. I just want to know on which condition should I add s and when not?

Emanuel
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  • Technically speaking, a compound is a word and it sounds a bit weird to me saying that a word consist of more than one word. That's why I changed it in my edit to lexeme. – Em1 Dec 17 '14 at 14:11
  • also related but in German: http://german.stackexchange.com/questions/5253/fugenkonsonanten-bei-zusammengesetzten-wörtern – Emanuel Dec 17 '14 at 14:18
  • also in German: http://german.stackexchange.com/questions/942/welche-grammatische-form-kann-das-erste-wort-in-zusammengesetzen-wörtern-annehme – Emanuel Dec 17 '14 at 14:19
  • http://german.stackexchange.com/questions/16121/guidelines-for-the-formation-of-compound-nouns – Emanuel Dec 17 '14 at 14:19
  • There is no hard and fast rule. Even native speakers of German are not always in agreement, depending on region (Austrians vs. German, e.g.) – Ingmar Dec 17 '14 at 14:43

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