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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "erschweren" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "erschweren" 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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It is wrong to use a construction with verbs instead nouns? Like “ Der Lärm erschwert mir zu lernen” instead “Der Lärm erschwert mir das Lernen.”?
Yeah, that works, though to my ear, I’d prefer an “es”
– Der Lärm erschwert es mir, zu lernen.
No logic though, this is just kind of about what sounds right.
Danke!
Hi Emanuel! I was wondering- what is the difference between:
erleichtern/leichter machen
erschweren/schwieriger machen
(obviously using the dative case for the ‘for someone’ component if there is one in either phrasing)
Do these pairs pretty much overlap, and erleichtern/erschweren are just a little higher register than leichter/schwieriger machen? Or is would you pick different phrasings in different contexts?
Vielen Dank!
Yeah, for these pairs, the main difference is tone. And maybe the version with “machen” sounds a tiny bit more proactive, but that difference is really not something to worry about.