The Meanings of “eben and gerade” (Part 2)

Hello everyone,

and welcome to our German Word of the Day. And this time we’ll complete our look at the meanings of

eben

 

and its brother in spirit

gerade

 

In the first part we had a look at the normal meanings of the words and we learned the three things that we need to make sense of all the crazy meanings of those words.

  1. Their core idea: leveled-ness, straight-ness.
  2. The notion of exactly, directly which they inherited from the close connection between the ideas of right and straight that can be found in many languages.
  3. The word just.

If you haven’t read it yet or if you want to refresh your memory before diving in you can check out part one right here:

If not, let’s jump right in and find out what crazy stuff you can do with word that mean  “______” … no curves :).

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