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As a complete tangent, one of things I'm finding hardest about German is when a word in English will have more than one meaning --- like, as you say, widows and
by david-given 11y ago
As a complete tangent, one of things I'm finding hardest about German is when a word in English will have more than one meaning --- like, as you say, widows and orphans do --- and then I'll find that the equivalent word in German, even if entirely different, will have the same set of meanings. It's amazingly hard to remember.
Also, I'm totally going to have to find my own copy of Deutsch für den Ausländer.
- pluma 11y agoI'd have thought that it's far more troublesome when the German equivalent merely has a subset of the same meanings but completely different meanings too (e.g. the English term for A has additional meanings B and C but not D while the German equivalent for A has additional meanings B and D but not C).