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What's so bad about dogs?
In colloquial German we often use the prefix "hunds-" or "hunde-" to aggravate a negative attribute from various adjectives, e.g.
hundsgemein
hundeelend
hundemüde
This painting by François-...
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What is the original meaning of the augmentative "stock-"?
For several adjectives we can build an augmentative by adding the prefix "stock-"
Gestern Nacht war es hier stockfinster.
Stocksteif bleib er stehen und bewegte sich nicht von der Stelle.
Hans ...