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Well, we get the ability to create adjectives out of nouns from our Germanic side. In the Romance languages, you can't do that. The illustration you cite above, Rapunzel, supposes that (i.e., "instructions that are easy to follow").
But I'll stop here and wait for our resident German experts to weigh in.
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