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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "sobald" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "sobald" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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“Bitte euch an den Farbe von den Produkten auf den Bildern orientieren, sobald ihr an den neuen Bildern arbeitet”
So i was composing an email earlier and got a collegue to quickly proof-read it. In place of sobald i had “wann”.
I think wenn was discussed, but this sounded wrong to me like “if” which isn’t the case as the images will get worked on.
So I think this is me partly misunderstanding “wenn”. Sobald was suggested but this sounds a bit more “pushy” to me, but that could just be me understanding it via english “as soon as”.
1) I was incorrect about wenn right?
2) is it good to avoid sobald if you don’t want to sound pushy?
Nah, ‘wenn’ would be a normal ‘when(ever)’ here. ‘sobald’ also works but it has some urgency or immediacy that isn’t really needed if you think about the actual context. ‘as soon as’ is a good match vibe-wise.
It’s not really that it’s pushy in German, but it implies someone has to take IMMEDIATE action the second they start working on the new images and what you want is that they take continuous action while they’re at it.
Thanks. This wenn /wann thing is definitely a basic thing from early on that i never really properly learnt. Gonna have to look at it properly….
I see sobald is classified as an adverb here, but i had it from other dictdionaries as a conjunction. Is there an argument over which classification it is?
You’re 100% correct. I miss-tagged this one.
Generally, for some words I have to make a decision because I can only use one tag here, while they might have two functions, but yeah… this really ONLY works as a subordinating conjunction.