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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "gegebenenfalls" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "gegebenenfalls" 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 think you have a small mistake in the translation:
Okay, then we’ll leave the meeting for tomorrow, and if necessary we’ll just have a quick phone call.
“Lassen” means “to not do something” here.
To me, “leave the meeting for tomorrow” would mean either
Oh, I missed that comment. Great thing you replied to it.
I want to add that technically, my example can also mean that we leave the meeting where it is (tomorrow).
So this can mean that we don’t do it (lassen – not do) or we leave it where it is (lassen – not change).
The context makes all the difference here.
As for “leave the meeting for tomorro” in the sense of moving it there… that could be
That has an undertone of “sparing” the meeting till tomorrow. Like we need something to do or the meeting would be hard work and today is already full. (again context)
Ohh. So it can work pretty much like English then. But in this example with “gegebenenfalls”, can it mean anything other than “we’ll skip the meeting, we’ll forget it”?
Yes, it could totally mean that we’ll not move it away from tomorrow. I simply wasn’t aware of the double meaning, when I wrote the example, because I had the context in my head.