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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "unweit" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "unweit" 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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Unweit davon or unweit dessen? Do both stand grammatically but davon sounds more idiomatic and less pompous or does dessen just not exist?
And this can branch into a more general question of whether we can use dessen as a da-word with genitive prepositions and verbs. For example:
Ich entsinne mich dessen, dass…
Does something like that work? I don’t think i’ve seen it anywhere but maybe? (To be clear, I know we can say „Dessen entsinne ich mich nicht“ or „Angesichts dessen…“)
“unweit davon” and “unweit dessen” both exist and sound idiomatic, with “dessen” sounding more high register.
Not sure what you’re asking here. “entsinnen” ONLY works with Genitive and does not have a preposition so “ich entsinne mich dessen, dass” is a totally valid phrasing.
I mean that here dessen takes a role similar to a da-word and was wondering if we can use it and think of it that way.
Ich entsinne mich dessen, dass…
Ich erinnere mich daran, dass…
erinnern does also exist in genitive so I could also phrase it this way:
Ich erinnere mich dessen, dass…
Ich erinnere mich daran, dass…
Do both of these have the same meaning and function? (Ignoring the register)
Well, yeah, they’re both “stand-ins/pronouns” that take the place of a noun or name. A da-word does it in a prepositional context and dessen is a “plain” case.
“dessen” and “daran” both work for “erinnern” because both structures exist… a case structure and a preposition structure.
– sich einer Sache erinnern
– sich an eine Sache erinnern
This has nothing to do with “daran” and “dessen” specifically though. The two sentences do mean the same, but I would recomment not thinking of “dessen” and “daran” as some sort of pairing. The examples here are more coincidental.