“Did you mean”
Hello ihr Deutschlerner,
I’m a bit late today, but happy second Advent I hope you had or are having a beautiful day.
Today, I have a little site improvement for you, but I also have a couple of follow ups from the days prior.
First of all, I want to say that I’m REALLY impressed by the poems you wrote about German prefix verbs. They were all really really creative and some were actually really impressive.
And I have to say…
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I tried to new search to see if there was an in depth explanation of “Zug”/”Züge” which I somehow find to be a very confusing word, and the search works great but there doesn’t seem to be more than the definition. That word has so many meanings that to me seem completely disconnected but must somehow make sense to a German? Or are they actually different words that are just written the same? Like “wind” and “wind”.
So there’s two searches, one for “topics” and one for the dictionary. The topic search also gives you dictionary entries, but with fewer details.
If you open the entry for “Zug”, you can the core meanings as well as examples and so on.
https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning/zug/
I don’t have a dedicated article about “Zug” yet that would explore the large variety, but I do have one for “ziehen” where you can find some answers.
https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning-ziehen/
Basically, “ziehen” has two core meanings, moving and pulling. Those are connected through the idea of pulling your ox carriage with your belongings to your new settling grounds.
All the other meanings derive from that. If you have questions about a specific one, just let me know under the entry for “Zug” and I’m happy to clear it up :)
Hallo,
Couldn’t find any typos either in this or the previous post, so it’s all good :)
I use your dictionary a lot, so any improvement is always a bonus for me!!
Bis bald!
Oh wow, so does seemeth that the quicker I type, the righter I am :)
Mate, love your posts. Just wondering if an App is on your future roadmap so that I can have the App on my phone and an easy go-to resource?
It definitely is, but I’m not sure if and how it makes sense for YDG as it is right now because it’s mainly a library.
But okay… every supermarket has an app nowadays, so I guess I could too.
I definitely want the dictionary to be an app eventually.
On your comment about verse style –
”Especially this verse style where the last and first line rhyme…”
Also important is the rhythm or meter, don’t forget that. My favorite example –
A decrepit old gas man named Peter,
While hunting around for the meter,
Touched a leak with his light.
He arose out of sight,
And, as anyone can see by reading this, he also destroyed the meter.
So nice :)!
I love that!
What wonderful learning tools you create, and tour explanations are comprehensive yet engaging. Thank you. I am one of the many who subscribe to tools and blogs and lessons for language learning, yet rarely use them. Next year I will pivot back to German after having focused, half-heartedly, on Italian for the last few years. Looking forward to seeing more of you more often! And I’m super glad that you haven’t abandoned the Advents calendar.
Na dann willkommen zurück und los geht’s!