Knowing relations between words can help understand their meanings and build a more connected vocabulary network. Here, you can explore parents and offspring and discover the whole family.
- shows how many children or parents the word has
- get the translations and a link
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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "ehe-2" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "ehe-2" 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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What does ehe mean in Ehepaar? Could you have an ehemalige Ehepaar?
“ehemaliges Ehepaar” works as “former couple” though “Ex-Ehepaar” is the more common choice.
As for the connection between this “ehe” and “die Ehe”, check out the article that is linked above.
How does this work with “noch”? In what way does it affect to the sentence?
Could you be a bit more specific? An example of what you have in mind would be great.
Of course, I’ll show you the example:
“Noch ehe Kokosnuss, Oskar und Matilda grüßen können, ist er auch über die Brücke gezischt”
Ah, thanks!
So here, the “noch” adds a sense that what happened was really quick.
“grüßen” doesn’t take long and before they even could do that, “he” had already crossed the bridge.
Technically, it’s the same “noch” as in stuff like
– Ich muss vorher noch kurz nach Hause.
– I have to go home first/before real quick.
The “crossing the bridge” is squeezed in before they greet.
Does that help?
It does help indeed, thank you so much! Does it work as a Modalpartikel in this situation, then?
No, it has a clear objective meaning and stands in the beginning of a sentence – modal particles don’t have that.