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| Jul 11, 2023 at 13:56 | comment | added | planetmaker | Yes, I agree for those examples which come to my mind. But usually without a complete dictionary coverage, the not-existance in a sample is not proof of not-existence - thus I was cautious :) | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 13:25 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @planetmaker: I'd generalize that, actually: If the prefix is stressed, then it's separable, otherwise it is not. | |
| Jul 11, 2023 at 13:04 | history | edited | bakunin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 11, 2023 at 12:53 | comment | added | planetmaker | I'd not call it 'situation', but the actual meaning decides whether it's separable for 'umfahren' and similar verbs. The different meaning also reflects in the pronunciation or rather the emphasised syllable: um'fahren (=drive around) vs. 'umfahren (=run over). Thus it could be argued that it's really different words which just happen to be spellt the same, like Bank (=bank) and Bank (=bench) | |
| Jul 10, 2023 at 20:13 | history | edited | bakunin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2023 at 6:23 | comment | added | bakunin | @RDBury: You are right, thank you. I haven't thought of "umlaufen". | |
| Jul 9, 2023 at 17:35 | comment | added | RDBury | There are one or two prefixes which can be separable or not depending on the situation, and some verbs using them which can be separable or not depending on the meaning. An example is umlaufen. | |
| Jul 9, 2023 at 11:31 | history | edited | bakunin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2023 at 10:45 | comment | added | Standard cake | Thank you for you answer!! Can you please verify if this is correct: Compound verbs include both sepearable (trennbare) and non-separable verbs. "Compound verbs" in German is "zusammengesetzte Verben" (latter according to google translate). | |
| Jul 9, 2023 at 10:06 | history | answered | bakunin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |