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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "bedurfnis" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "bedurfnis" 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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I heard another learner give “breathing” as an example of a Bedürfnis. I was surprised as I’d understood it as more psychological but looking at the dictionary there is a second definition I wasn’t famirliar with that includes material things like food.
Basiscally then anything here could be a Bedürfnis then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs#/media/File:Maslow's_Hierarchy_of_Needs2.svg
Not sure “belongingness” is a word , think maybe its “sense of belonging” but hey its wikipedia.
Yes, this is called “Bedürfnispyramide”. Why does that confuse you though? Do you think the definition doesn’t quite cover it?
ah i actually didn’t know that but thats actually really helpful as a way to think about it.
I’d thought of Bedürfnis as more as purely a desire or urge – breathing kind of happens automatically its not something i normally consciously long to do. Although if i have problems breathing i definitely want to.
The scope of the word is however a bit bigger than i originally thought.
Need does implicitly cover breathing but i suppose some more examples in the definition of the range of the word might have helped.