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besteigen

(be verb)
based on: steigen
hat bestiegen
bestieg

Meanings

1.
to climb
(The thing you climb is the direct object. Sounds very "hands on". Not very common, but you can find it in mountaineering for climbing a mountain. NOT for small things like a table, for example.)
2.
to get in/on
(Sounds a bit stiff and formal or technical. Works for a throne for example.)
3.
to mount, to bone
(The sexual sense. Think of a bull getting on a cow from behind. The meaning is sexual but it doesn't sound sexy AT ALL.)

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The meaning of " steigen"

A thorough look at the meaning of "steigen" and it's prefix versions, which are crucial if you want to use transportation in Germany :). Also: steigern.

Vocab:

steigen, einsteigen, aussteigen, steigern, die Steigerung, versteigern


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Root: *steigh-

The core idea of this root was:

walking, striding upward

The most notable English relative is the noun stair,  but the root is also the origin of stickler, which originally was about putting on a base, and hemistich and stoichiometry.  Which are both words I had no clue about. The first one has something to do with poetry and the second one with chemistry, bit the common theme is “layering rows“. Kind of like stairs :).

In German, steigen and its relatives are the only members I could find.

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