eröffnen

spoken past: hat eröffnet

written past (preterite): eröffnete

to open

(in the sense of opening a venue for the first time. NOT for simply opening doors. Er-verbs are too epic for that stuff.)

to tell

("jemandem etwas eröffnen" - for big, often not so good news. Very rare in spoken German)

We haven't talked about this word in an article in detail. Just leave your questions in the discussion section here, and I'll answer all them :)

Root: *upo, *eup

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Bissell

28 days ago

Bis wann is das Museum geöffnet. (Duo Lingo)
Bis wann is das Museum eröffnen(?)
Krieg von ge und er öffnen wörten…
I’m sure you have this someplace on YDG.

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German-is-easy

28 days ago

Reply to Bissell

These two don’t really overlap that much.

“eröffnen” is opening for the first time. Like.. the grand opening of a new museum.

Bis wann ist das Museum eröffnet?

This means something along the lines of:

By what date the latest will that (new) museum have had its grand opening?

“öffnen” can also be used for “grand openings” but “eröffnen” can not be used for normal day to day opening of your store.

Does that help?

Bissell

27 days ago

Reply to German-is-easy

Oh, that makes sense. The sentence is something like ‘ Ich möchte eine Konto eröffnen. Thank you.

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