Prefix Verbs Explained- “auskommen”

  Hello everyone, and welcome to a new episode of the hot new season of the year: German Prefix Verbs Explained. Netflix doesn’t have it. AppleTV+ doesn’t have it. And Disney+ doesn’t have it. But we have it here and today, we’ll take a look at the meaning of auskommen ▶   Auskommen is a combination of the German word for to come and the German word for out. So naturally, it means to come out and all we need to do is look at a couple of examples and boom, new word acquired. Right? Well, no. Of course not. Auskommen does NOT mean to come out. That’s what the so called r-version rauskommen is for, as we’ll see later. But first, let’s explore auskommen itself. The Meaning (and Use) of “auskommen” Aus can add two notions to a verb: switched-off-ness, and outside-ness. In case of auskommen we’re dealing with the latter, but in a really, really twisted way. Back a few centuries ago when tomatoes were still tasty, eggs were a cent and meanings still made sense, people still used auskommen as to come out, in context of actual buildings but also in a more abstract sense of coming out of a journey…

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