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What is a “Vorentscheidung”?

After the match Dortmund–Bayern München (1:0) of yesterday, I read that this victory has marked a "Vorentscheidung" for the race to the German football championship. But what exactly is meant by ...
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What is the longest German word (that is used)? [closed]

The German language has one feature which differs from most other languages, which is that you can combine two nouns to a new word, for example Dampf and Schiff can become Dampfschiff and together ...