1. to strive for, to aim for (The object of desire is the direct object here. Sounds more mundane and immediate than "streben nach". Think of a manager aiming to get a milestone finished within a week... stuff like that.)
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anstreben
(an verb)
Word type: an verb
Based on: streben (nach)
Based on: streben (nach)
Perfect (spoken past): hat angestrebt
Preterite (written past): strebte an
Meanings
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Root: *(s)ter-
The core idea of this root was:
stiff, rigid
Pretty simple, but it evolved into quite a few different directions.
Here’s an (incomplete) list of English family members:
- stark – (“strong, rigid”, shifted toward serious)
- starch – (“makes mush thick, stiff”)
- stern – (“rigid”)
- to start – (“jumping up quickly, stiff muscles”)
- to startle – (Same as “start” but shifted toward the cause)
- to stare – (“stiff gaze”, same as German “starren”)
- starve – (“stiff corpse”, same as German “sterben” – to die)
- torpedo – (“make numb”, from a Latin name for an electric ray fish that numbs you. Military name first used for sea mines, because they “sting” your ship)
- stereo – (Greek word for “solid”, they used it among other things for “solid 3D perception, I suppose)
The root is also the origin of the Slavic word star-, which means old.
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