anschreiben

Word type: an verb
Based on: schreiben

Perfect (spoken past): hat angeschrieben

Preterite (written past): schrieb an

Meanings

to write to someone

(Sounds rather formal. Usually used for actual mail, often in official contexts. )

to put something on someone's "tab"

(Essentially, "anschreiben" is a word for getting informal credit at a bar or restaurant. Sometimes, people who are a regular a tab that spans over months. Verb is usually used with modal verbs.)

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Word Family

Root: *skribh-

The core idea of the root was:

cutting, slicing

And very early on it was used in the context of leaving markings or making drawings and eventually, writing things.
In the Latin branch, we have the verb *scribere, which meant to write, which is the origin for words like script, prescribe, subscribe, describe and more.

Here’s a (incomplete) list:

script, scripture
manuscript (“to write by hand”)
scribe
subscribe (“to write under”)
prescribe (“to write across”)
inscribe (“to write in”)
describe (“to write down”)
ascribe (“write toward”)
transcribe (“to write over”)
serif, sans-serif (“little stroke, draw”)

anschreiben

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