Hello everyone,
and welcome to our German Word of the Day. Today, with a look at the meaning and the family of
der Stamm
It’s the German brother of the English stem and many of you have probably seen it in context of language and grammar. But that’s also the most boringest context.
There’s much more to discover about the German Stamm and its related words, including a really really handy German use for the … but I’m not gonna spoil it.
So, are you ready to learn some words? Then let’s jump right in.
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Don’t you talk about my Niko’s Weg like that.
I consumed that daily like a plant eating sunlight. Also the blond girl was reason alone to start studying German
SIMP!!
Learning German for a girl you saw online.
Tsss tss tss.
Seriously though, I wasn’t talking bad about Nikos Weg. I said it should get an Oscar.
I really think it’s a great project and is holding up really well over time.
But she kinda bad tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34gmbdmn3Gc
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
Hi, Emanual. I couldn’t figure out the notion of “ab” in abstammen, being considering the two core notion “separation” and “downwardness” and understanding “abstammen” has sth to do with family origin. And I also couldn’t understand “ab” in “absuchen”, with knowing the “search the whole surface” idea. I just can’t find the connection among the two core ideas and “ab” in these words
“abstammen” – you come off of a family line. The separation is not about “severing ties” here but simply separating another “self” out of a family branch. Think “offspring”, which also has “off” in it.
“absuchen” – I think similar to “abwischen” where you go over the entire surface of a table and wipe everything “off”. In the same sense, you go over an area and search every bit of it. Think the connection of sweeping and swiping.
Does that help?
Yeeees! I finally figured out! Thank uuuuuuu!
Hooray :)!!
This is the first time I’ve ever been to this site, and yet you claim I’ve been here twice already. A mistake like this certainly doesn’t make me want to spend money on a membership.
Understandable.
Hi
Was fuer ein interessantes Wort! Ich habe noch Schwierigkeiten, zwischen “stammen aus” und “kommen aus” zu unterscheiden. Sind sie austauschbar oder gibt es einen subtilen Unterschied?
Vielen Dank!
“stammen aus” klingt ein bisschen epischer, oder “more root-y”. “kommen aus” ist ein bisschen “mundane”. Aber oft ist der Unterschied einfach, was in einem bestimmten Kontext idiomatisch ist.
Stammkunde = knowledge about stems. :-D I’m still giggling about that.
Ich glaube, dass “stammen aus” auch mit Zeit gebunden ist. Zum Beispiel:
Diese Musik stammt aus den zwanzigsten Jahren.
Ja, das sagt man auch oft. Die Bedeutung ist auch “originate, come from”
“stammen von” : you could also say “stem from” in English, but it’s usually about abstract concepts and issues.
That’s kind of a false friend phrasing right there, good you bring that up.
– Die Idee stammt von….
This is about who had the idea.
– The idea stems from…
This is about the background/conditions from which the idea arose.
The translation for “to stem from” in German highly depends on context, so if one of you guys wants, just give me an example and I’ll translate it.
In Sanskrit or/and Prakrit languages
“Sthavara” means fixed, permanant.
“Sthana” —–> identified place.
” Sthamba” —— > solid pillar.
“Sthara” —–> settled layer
“Sthavira” ——> Senior Monk (seasoned monk)
Wow, just as abstract as meaning relationships in German :).
By the way, Bulgarian “strana” means “side, land, country”. Looks an aweful lot like “sthana”.
Thanks SOOO MUCH for sharing this. I would love more references to Sanskrit on here and I know I have readers in India :)
Hello, I want to thank the people who paid some extra money so that others like me can learn. Vielen Dank
Sehr interessant. Manchmal, finde ich einige von deine Beiträge überwältigend. Aber diese hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Not complaining I know that’s your style. But I particularly liked this one haha. Keep at it!
Danke sehr!
I had a very weird phase a few years ago, but I am trying to make them more digestible :).
Glad you put up with my rambling!!
I *love* Nico’s Weg. It’s the beards. Do all men in Germany wear beards?
No, but it’s definitely trendy, at least in Berlin :).
German proverb ‘Der Apfel fällt nicht weit von Stamm`
Stammt das Wort stramm von Stamm ab?.
Neanderausdem THAL!!
Stammtisch in AE?
My stomping grounds. My favorite haunt (haunt is a place you visit frequently – one just doesn‘t use „haunt“ ohne favorite). We used to call it a „hang-out“ but that seems outdated and negative now. Like, thugs hang out somewhere.
One would also say, that one is a regular somewhere, or „we can meet at my regular place.“
Regulars usually have a nickname for their favorite haunt – a name that only the regulars use.
Always a nice article and quiz. Thank you !
Die Stammbar in England war the local
“…showcase of how marbled with prefix verbs European languages really are.” Nice turn of a phrase!
At least in my day the equivalent of “Stammbar” would be “local” as in
I going out for a pint with my mates at my local.
For some reason I thought the Stamm in Stammtisch was to do with speaking. I was probably unconsciously thinking of the English word stammer (kind of the opposite of speaking). But that’s Germanic: stammeln in modern German and related to Stumm, as in “Ihr Mikrofon ist stummgeschaltet” as Skype likes to tell me. Are all these connected? I guess a stammer is standing, in the sense of holding up normal speech.
Wow, convincing reasoning. I checked and “stumm” and “stammeln” indeed relate to “stemmen”. I now found that it’s actually not clear if “stemmen” is related to “stammen”. They connect it (stemmen) to a root *stem- which was about “pushing, hindering”. They didn’t mention a connection to *sta/ste, so that’s basically for us learners to make up :).
I wouldn’t go so far as to say I *hate* Parasite, but it was not a good movie
I was REALLY into it in the beginning and had high hopes. It was quite the hype over here when it came out. And then with the start of the second half I was disappointed over and over and more and more. That’s why I hate it…. I liked how it started but then … fiuuuuuuuuuuuuuu down the hole.
Please forgive my overzealous hitting of the post button…”new guy”…No “delete post” button, alas.
I shall forgive :D