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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "zuhoren" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "zuhoren" 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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Trying to use more getrentverben – but checking with Google wants me down another path. Which is best?:
1) Ich höre Schwermetall nicht zu. (my wish)
2) Ich höre kein Schwermetall.
I am imagining I am talking to someone about my music tastes. Don’t get me wrong, I still like early Judas Priest, and I saw Scorpions before they broke big in 1981… :)
Google is definitely right here.
“zuhören” usually implies some sort of communication going on.
It sounds wrong for genres and also for single songs.
Ok:
“Ich höre dich zu” “Ich habe meine Mutter abzuhören” (Uh oh, Google flagged that wants a preposition – auf meine Mutter). I’ll come back to that later :) For now “Ich höre kein Schwermetall, aber Mahler wird sehr heftig und kräftig!”
Du brauchst Dativ mit “zuhören”. “abhören” heißt was anderes und passt hier nicht.
Mist! This is the second time a month on YDG that I’ve blundered into ‘zu ____’ without recognizing it demands Dative. Sigh…
Wait, just to make sure… not all prefix verbs with “zu-” go with Dative.
This one for example goes with Accusative.
Oh…natürlich nicht….weil….Deutsch…sigh.
I’ll cross those bridges later :) For now “Ich höre Dir zu” ist genug.
Guter Plan :)