abfahren

Word type: ab verb
Based on: fahren

Perfect (spoken past): ist abgefahren

Preterite (written past): fuhr ab

Meanings

1.

to start driving

(With a focus in leaving. Often used for trains leaving a station. For starting your car ride, "losfahren" is the better choice.)

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2.

to dig, to really like

("abfahren auf+Acc" - quite colloquial and not easy to use idiomatically, because it doesn't always work.)

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3.

to drive off

(In the sense of leaving a highway.)

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Opposite (closest): auffahren

4.

to drive along

(ONLY in the sense of driving a full course of something, usually in a context of some sort of inspection.)

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5.

to drive down

(For mountains and hills and primarily used in context of biking or skiing.)

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Word Family

Root: *per

The core idea of this root was:

going beyond, going forth

And a lot of its children revolve in some way around the idea of travelling or exploring – like for instance the German fahren and führen or the English further.
It’s the origin of Latin prefixes like per-, pro-, pro- and also of the Germanic branch around for(e) and German vor, which are all about either “going forth” or a more abstract notion of going beyond a boundary.

The root is also the origin of German fahren and führen and the English fare, which all come from a sense of travelling, going into the unknown.

You can get a really good understanding of how the core idea can lead to various meanings by looking at German ver-.

The family is very big, but here’s an incomplete list of English members:

pre- (mixed)
pro- (mixed)
per- (mixed)
para- (beyond)
to fare, far (venturing)
for (from person A to person B)
forward, forth, further (going ahead)

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