1. the headphones
Meanings
Word Family
Root: *keu
The core idea of this root was:
observing, watching, perceiving
It’s the origin of hören and to hear (which is acoustically perceiving, observing) and also of German schauen, which is about looking at.
The English brother of schauen, to show, shifted from mere seeing toward showing – first, showing what you’re seeing and then showing in the more general sense.
It’s also the origin of German schön, which was originally “something you like to watch” and of the English caution which comes from Latin and was about watching in a sense of being on guard.
Some English relatives:
- to show (showing what you see)
- to hear (perceiving acoustically)
- caution (observing danger)
- sheen (similar to German schön)
abhörenanhörenAnhörungAuf WiederhörenaufhörenunaufhörlichBehördeBehördendeutschdurchhörenerhörenGehörGehörganggehörlosgehören (zu)angehörenAngehörigedazugehörenGehorsamGehorsamkeitUngehorsamhingehörenwie es sich gehörtZubehorhellhörigherhörenhinhörenhorchenaufhorchenaushorchengehorchenHörerhörigKopfhörermithörennachhörenraushören (aus)reinhören (in)überhörenumhören (sich)verhörenvorhörenweghörenweiterhörenzuhörenZuhörer
Questions and Comments
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1) Normalerweise höre ich Musik mit Kopfhörern
2) Meistens höre ich Musik mit Kopfhörern
3) Ich höre normalerweise Musik mit Kopfhörern
4) Ich höre meistens Musik mit Kopfhörern
Any other variation.
Frage1: Is there a difference zwischen Normalerweise und Meistens in this situation?
Frage2: The position of ‘Musik’ in 3+4 make me feel that these are NOT the best choices. Then again, Musik might need to come after the verb(?)
Replace Kopfhörer with Lautsprecher as you feel so moved…
More Variations:
Here, “Musik” sounds like it was already a topic in conversation and you give some new information about it (You listen to it on headphones).
And you can do all of them with Musik at the end.
If “Kopfhörer” is at the end, then they get a tiny bit more “punch”.
Like, here are the “fitting” questions:
In the second version, “Musik hören” is treated like a verbal unit, so “Musik” is at the end just like a prefix.
meistens vs normalerweise
“meistens” sounds a bit “more” than “normalerweise” to me. And normalerweise has a certain vibe of introducing and exception, while meistens is more of a general statement about frequency. So you’d be more likely to get a “but” after “normalerweise” than after “meistens”.
All these differences are VERY SUBTLE though, and effectively, all the versions (for this sentence) are about equal.
Schön! Super vielen dank.
Das macht Sinn. Danke!
Edit: Went back to my flashcards that had the Musik in the middle and I could actually HEAR how it stressed the ending (I have my flashcards talk to me in German after I give my answer out loud). The sentence sounded ‘inverted’ or bent to make a point. Wow.