# Three-word compound

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By the way, to give an example of another weird German compound word, take _Kompetenzkompetenz_. It’s the competence to decide who is competent to decide a particular question. It’s not a super-frequent word, but in legal terminology it does show up occasionally, and it has migrated with the same meaning into English as a loan word ([Wikipedia again](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kompetenz-kompetenz)).

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