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.
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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "knapp" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "knapp" 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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“Ich hatte Trinkwasser für knapp acht Tage.”
If knapp means that a resource is scarce, shouldn’t it be an adjective for the Trinkwasser and not the acht Tage in this sentence?
This is more like the second meaning of “knapp”. It’s “close to” 8 days.
I think you used the ChatGPT example option and those are not always precise within the definition that I give. So yeah… “knapp [time duration]” is a common phrasing and it ties in with the second meaning here.
This sentence is from the German translation of The Little Prince. I saw you replied to one of comments on Open Mic post to start reading some famous novel I never heard of that he waned to read but wanted to wait till his German improved. I didn’t want to lose my “laid-back” approach to the language so I decided to start small and read The Little Prince instead. I’m now on chapter 3.
And how’s it going so far? Is it getting easier?
This is going to sound silly, but when I was first exploring the grammar section here and I came across the aricle about the written and spoken past, I found it almost hard to believe. Like, why is there a grammat tense used almost exclusively in novels and such??
Now I’m reading my first novel, and the written past is just WEIRD. I take time to even know which verb it is :(
But I hope to get the hang of it quickly. I’m highlighting the new words and writing them down outside, so it can only get better from here, hopefully. :)
Oh, you’ll pick them up as you read. They repeat over and over and over. When I learned French, I never wrote them down. I just learned them passively by reading. Like… don’t put too much effort into these, except for the ones you need in spoken.
Yeah I guess you’re right. I’m just not a big fan of “Trusting The Process”.
Call it “outsorcing to brain” then. Your brain will do the heavy lifting for you.
I think I would. I like it. :)