Hi everyone,
and welcome to today’s YourDailyGerman show prep-meeting, sorry I’m late again.
“Hey Emanuel.”
“It’s just half an hour, man, you’ve done worse.”
Haha true… so let’s see who’s here… uh Laura, Steve, Jamal, Anna and me and of course our interns. You guys keep your mouth shut, though.
“Uhm… okay.”
Nah kidding… of course you can speak up.
All right, so as far as I know our next show is gonna be about the prefix verb eingehen. I actually didn’t do much preparation except that I briefly looked it up in a dictionary but my god… to shrink, to arrive, to agree… it’s all over the place.
“Yeah, it is one of those.”
So, did you guys find any logic in this mess?
“Well, it does have a range of meanings but they’re actually not as random as they seem.”
Cool, then walk me through it, okay?
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Ich gehe später nochmal genauer darauf ein.
I’ll talk about that/address that later again in more detail.
“I’ll go into that again later in more detail” sounds great in english too
Ah, nice, that’s pretty close to the German one then.
Ich hab’ schon mal das Wort “einlaufen” im Zusammenhang mit der Wäsche gelesen, aber “eingehen” noch nie. (Klar, “gehen” ≈ “laufen”. Macht Sinn.) Könntest du vielleicht kommentieren, welches Wort gebräuchlicher/umgangssprachlicher/regionaler/etc ist? Gibt es überhaupt einen Unterschied?
Mit freundlichsten Cheerskies,
Barratt
Ja stimmt, “einlaufen” geht auch. Für mich (Berliner) ist “eingehen” definitiv die erste Wahl aber wie du gesagt hast… das kann von Region zu Region anders sein. Aber alle verstehen beide Versionen. Du kannst dir also eine aussuchen :)
Oh… und Cheerskies :D… cooles Wort!!
Thank you so much, Emanuel and those who payed a little extra for my sponsership to get the membership. It was honestly very kind of you all to lend me this opportunity to learn German in a much easier fashion. Again, I can’t thank you all enough!!
Hi,
what is the difference between ausführlich and eingehend?
Thanks
Great question! They’re often synonymous. “Ausführlich” has a focus on length whereas “eingehend” is a bit more about “depth” but that is super subtle. I think it mostly comes down to what’s idiomatic in a given context. “erklären” sounds better with “ausführlich”, “eingehen” sounds better with “sich mit etwas beschäftigen”. If I had to pick one, it’d be “ausführlich”.
Hallo! Ich werde diese Nachricht auf Deutsch zu schreiben versuchen, also tut mir leid, wenn es ein bisschen seltsam ist! Ich möchte eine großes Dankeschön an die Person sagen, die für meine Mitgleidschaft bezahlt hat. Ich bin sehr dankbar weil ich deises Blog liebe:D Ich bin in der zehnten Klasse und ich habe seit vier Jahren Deutsch lernen. Ich hoffe eines Tag fleißend zu sein! Vielen dank von Sarah!
Please help me to translate “Project manager” to pure German words.
The best I came to is “vorlageverwaltung” but it is not what I need:)
Any ideas?
Thank you all.
I definitely need more context. If you mean the job, then it’s verbatim: Projektmanager (or Projektleiter).
I am familiar.
Just want some fancy (even invented is good:) ) German word for project .
The context is title Project Manager.:)
The word really is “Projekt” for “project” in that context. No fancy alternative that would be remotely understandable :). What do you need it for?
To write something fancy in LinkedIn :))
Nee, LinkedIn ist ja professionell. Da auf jeden Fall “Projektmanager”. Alles andere kann man nur als Witz machen.
Ich weiß es, aber jetzt suche ich einen Job nicht deshalb kann ich was ich will schreiben:)
Ich hab nochmal überlegt, aber mir fällt echt nix ein. Sorry :)
Ich liebe diese Seite. Danke schon!
Freut mich :)
“Get into something” is a good equivalent for “auf etwas eingehen” when it’s about an issue or topic of discussion.
– Ich gehe später nochmal genauer darauf ein.
– I’ll get into that [in more detail] later.
Also, it’s in the fading-out bit at the end, but “go down in history” is definitely THE idiomatic translation for “in die Geschichte eingehen.”
How would you compare “eingehend” with “gründlich”?
Glad someone caught the go down in history one ;).
As for “gründlich” vs “eingehend”… that’s a good question. I feel like “eingehend” is limited to abstract contexts and it implies some time.
So it wouldn’t be a good fit for cleaning a pot properly because that might be done in a minute and it’s hands on.
Oh and I think “eingehend” is more common as an adverb.
Great article, as usual! I love how you explain words that I definitely come across regularly but never think to look up because they look so innocuous, and it turns out that they have all these unexpected meanings!
Was wondering if you could do a post on the word “ja” as a particle some time, like in the example “Lass uns im Park treffen. Wenn’s regnet, können wir ja dann irgendwo reingehen.”
Vielen, vielen Dank :)
Definitely. “ja” has been on the list forever, and I made several attempts but I always got stuck. Usually that’s a sign that I haven’t found the best approach yet, so I put it aside and let it ripen.
Ich habe den Eindruck dass du mit einer Persönlichkeitsstörung leidest!
Könnte auch “eingehen” für Tiere benutzt werden? Für Biene zum Beispiel?
Wen von uns meinst du denn :)?
“eingehen” im Sinne von “to die” geht nur für Pflanzen oder im metaphorischen Sinne für Menschen. Aber eine Biene kann nicht “eingehen”.
Very creative. Refreshing style, I like it. You never seize to surprise me.
I think the other meanings of “eingehen”, that for example Duden lists, are not really that useful. Most of them are really formal and just sound silly in a normal conversation.
I use “eingehen” often in the “to wither” sense. It has a good tone of slowly and unpleasant. It is good in combination with “förmlich”. And it was really hot today: “Ich bin draußen förmlich eingegangen.” = “I positively died out there.”
I think the adjective “eingängig” is interesting. It means “catchy” as in catchphrase and it uses the “ein” not as the prefix form of “in” but as the 1 “ein” At least I think it does. It is kind of “one way-y”, no running in circles and nothing unneccessary. But maybe I am wrong. It might also have been formed from “eingehen” which has a lesser meaning of understanding. Anyway, here are some examples:
“Ich suche nach einem eingängigen Werbeslogan.” = “I am looking for a catchphrase for our advertisement (lit. a catchy advertisement slogan).”
“E = mc², ja das ist sehr eingängig, damit überzeugen wir auch den letzten.” = “E=mc², yes that rolls off the tongue easily, with that we’re going to convince the last one.”
“Ba, ba, ba, baaah, ba, ba, ba, baaah. Gut gemacht, Beethoven. Sehr eingängig, das kommt bestimmt gut an.” = “… Well done, Beehoven. Very easy on the ear, that is definitely going to be a hit.”
“Eselsbrücken müssen eingängig sein, damit man sie nicht vergisst.” = “Mnemonics have to be catchy so you won’t forget them.”
*cease
Person243. Can you tell me the difference between eingängig and einprägsam in terms of “catchy”?
To me, “eingängig” sounds a little more “organic”. It just flows in, while “einprägsam” is more about making a good memory imprint.
Wow, fascinating. I don’t think I would have ever thought of “eingängig” in the sense of “1” ever.
I pretty positive that, etymologically, it does come from “eingehen”. Something that is “eingängig” is something that “goes in (easily)”. But your reading makes sense, too. Something is not ambiguous, unequivocal. And there’s nothing wrong with that reading.
Thanks a lot for these great examples!
Oh, as for “förmlich”… that’s an interesting use actually, one that probably confuses many learners because they’d most likely think something like “formal”. I think a good fit is “virtually”. Or the new, wrong use of “literally”
– “The opera was so boring, I was literally dying. ”
“You sure you mean literally?”
“Dude, you’re literally language Hitler.”
Very good explanation and I think that starting with the most far – off meanings from “going, getting in” was better so as to grasp the different meanings and keep reading till the end. Besides, when I put the meanings in Spanish, my native language in my vocabulary list, I noticed that they were not so apart from each other as to make them difficult to remember them, Thank you Emmanuel!
Thanks for the great feedback :)!! Glad you liked the progression of the article. That’s actually kind of the hardest part of writing and I spend a lot of time changing order of things sometimes. So I’m really glad to hear that it worked this time :)
In the context of going in on a deal or a contract, would you use that if, as an example, my siblings and I will “go in together” to buy a gift for my parents?
That is, we’ll share the cost for a single gift?
No, the word there would be “zusammenlegen”. “eingehen” usually comes explicitly with words like “Vertrag” or “Angebot”.
To add an example:
– Meine Schwester und ich legen für eine Kamera als Geburtstagsgeschenk für Papa zusammen.
What’s the best translation of the following exchange?
Thomas: I’ll bet you $10 that Bayern scores two goals in the first half.
Maria: I’ll take that bet.
Thomas: Wetten, dass Bayern zwei Tore in der ersten Halbzeit schießt. (where does the amount go?)
Maria: Ich gehe (auf?) die Wette ein.
Great question!! Your version is grammatically perfect (without “auf”) but it would sound formal in that setting and “eine WEtte eingehen” is more common with in indefinite contexts (“ich gehe eine Wette/jede Wette ein”)
Another verb for taking a bet is “annehmen” and I think “angenommen” might be a good fit. Or “Ich nehme die Wette an.”
Me personally, I would just say “Okay” or “Deal”.
I’m curious what other native speakers have to say.