1. to enjoy (NOT used as widely as in English and it sounds more distinguished. Learners often use it as "I enjoyed it" and it does NOT work for that. "Spaß machen" or "gefallen" are the idiomatic choices there.)
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Vocab:
nutzen, benutzen, verwenden, der Gebrauch, nützlich, hilfreich, nützen, abnutzen, ausnutzen
Word Family
Root: *neud-
This root carried the core idea of:
benefiting from something you were striving for
Think of a mammoth hunt and the rewarding dinner at the fire huddled in mammoth fur.
In German, this evolved into the word for enjoy (genießen), but also the more “pragmatic” nutzen, which means to use.
Old English had a couple of members of this family, but they disappeared and there are no active relatives, at least none I could find.
