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Rameau Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6115 days ago 149 posts - 258 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English*, GermanC1, Danish Studies: Swedish, French, Icelandic
| Message 9 of 10 17 August 2009 at 7:49am | IP Logged |
Pyx wrote:
Belardur wrote:
"Behind every German's teeth is an 'also' waiting, that falls out as soon as he opens his mouth" - paraphrase from Mark Twain |
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Totally true (and I love that essay :D ). I just don't understand why he insists on his "zug"s. There's hardly a word that uses that. At least not in modern German. |
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Off the top of my head, "Zug" can mean train, pull, move (in a board game) breath, draft (of wind) and trait, among other things. Then there's compounds like Aufzug, Einzug, Rückzug and so forth. And of course "zügig".
Granted, the verb form "ziehen" probably would have been a better choice (that word really does seem to make up a good half of German vocabulary), but "Zug" certainly occurs in a wide range of seemingly unconnected (or at least very loosely connected) contexts.
Edited by Rameau on 17 August 2009 at 7:49am
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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6380 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 10 of 10 17 August 2009 at 8:17am | IP Logged |
Hmm.
what about 'na dann' ?
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