hinschreiben

Word type: hin verb
Based on: schreiben

Perfect (spoken past): hat hingeschrieben

Preterite (written past): schrieb hin

Meanings

to write down

(The focus here is on putting information out there, while for "aufschreiben" (which translates the same) it's more the idea of capturing it in writing. )

How useful:

to write "there"

(Used when the destination has already been specified and you then want to say something like "write there/them". Usually in the context of institutions, not single persons.)

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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”)

hinschreiben

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