Knowing relations between words can help understand their meanings and build a more connected vocabulary network. Here, you can explore parents and offspring and discover the whole family.
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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "unterscheiden" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "unterscheiden" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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just double checking -am i right in thinking the reflexive here is pretty straightforward?
Like if we are talking about how something distinguishes itself from something we’d use it with reflexive otherwise its not reflexive
Yeah, it’s pretty much the same in English and German.
In the second context, “sich abheben” is probably more common.