der Zufallstreffer
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A fun look at the weird double meaning of "treffen" and the difference between "treffen" and "sich treffen".

What do a closing door and random coincidence have in common? They both relate to the German verb "zufallen". Today, we'll find out why.
Vocab:
zufallen, der Zufall, zufällig, zufälligerweise

Word Family
The core idea of this root was:
falling
It doesn’t have any other relatives besides to fall and fallen (and “to fell” and “fällen”) in German and English and it is notably absent from the Latin branch of the Indo-European family. There, the word for falling was *kadere, which is the origin of words like cadence, incident or case.