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You can't rip apart that word into "auf" and "passen" and then individually translate them literally. The result seems nonsensical. I would say "aufpassen" is l

You can't rip apart that word into "auf" and "passen" and then individually translate them literally. The result seems nonsensical. I would say "aufpassen" is literally "be attentive" / "be watchful". Edit: "to pay attention" is literally "Aufmerksamkeit zollen"

lisper 1y ago
> You can't rip apart that word into "auf" and "passen" and then individually translate them literally. Sure, just like you can't separate "pay attention". Both are idiomatic. But you can separate "aufpassen" into "Paß auf". (For the benefit of non-German lurkers, "Paß auf" is a command to pay attention.)
camdroidw 1y ago
Replying to your powershell comment from 30d back-- you won't use aliases, you'd type g-ci <tab> for get-ChildItem