1. not demanding anything (also sometimes used in a negative sense of "without depth" (for movies for instance))
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Opposite (closest): anspruchsvoll
anspruchslos
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A thorough look at the meaning of "los", its various useful prefix verbs and the noun "das Los", and what a raffle token has to do with fate and parking lots.
Vocab:
los, lose, das Los, los sein, loslassen, losgehen,
A fun look at the meaning of the prefix verb "ansprechen" and its various related words that range from being picky to eye candy.
Vocab:
ansprechen, die Ansprache, ansprechend, ansprechbar, sich angesprochen fühlen, anspruchsvoll
Word Family
Root: *spere-
The core idea of the root (according to English sources) was:
ankle
German sources have the meaning for focused on motion and describe it as
twitching with the foot, unrest
In German, it shifted toward a sense of tracking (by foot) and then kept going toward the sense of perceiving.
English doesn’t have many relatives – spur, spoor, spurn.
They haven’t shifted their meaning as much, so they’re still somewhat close to ankle or to a broad sense of twitching.
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