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- making steps, walking, running
- (This root is not 100% certain. The main English offspring would be "to tread".)
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- grasping, enclosing
- (Notable English members of the family are "garden", "girth" , "court", "yard" , "hangar" and the home of Thor: Midgard.)
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- hewing, striking
- (Notable English members of this family are "hay" and "hew" and according to German sources also "code" and "queue".)
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- going forth, also: dying
- (It's unclear, if there is a connection to the other "leit-" root, which is about "hate".)
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- foot
- (Notable English members of this family are "fetter", "expedition" and loads of Latin based words with "-pod" or "ped" in them, like tripod, centipede and so on.)
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- "love"
- (This root shifted toward the idea of friendship and freedom in several Indo-European languages. In Slavic for example "prija.." is a stem for "friend". Notable English members are "free", "friend" and also... "filibuster". )
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- to track, to seek,
- (Notable English members of that root are "to seek", "to ransack" and "sake". In many Germanic languages, it has developed a branch that's about arguing and dispute. That's where the German "Sache" comes from, which originally was "matter of discussion".)
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- expanding, strewing, dispersing
- (Notable English members of that family are "strew", the members of the Latin branch of "structure" like "construct", "instruct", "destroy" and also "industry", the prefix "strato-" and "street" and "straw".)
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- cringe number
- (Used to be a code for weed, then a meme and then Elon and his fanboys filled it to the brim with cringe-vibes.)
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- every now and then
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- starting when?
- (Asks for the moment that something starts. Can be about the future or about some sort of threshhold.)
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- besides, aside from, apart from
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- apart from that, that aside
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- to say farewell
- (Sounds epic and often used in contexts where someone does internal work, rather than actually saying farewell to someone. Like, sitting and meditating over the loss for example.)
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- to make concessions
- (Though the noun doesn't mean that anymore, the idea of the phrase comes from the notion of crossing things off a list because you can't have them)
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- Wait and see.
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- Oh really ?
- (very common in conversations)
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- Oh no! / Geez!
- (Used to express a negative surprise.)
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- Come on.
- (The actual meaning depends a lot on tone.)
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- Oh come on, nonsense.
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- to be careful, to take care, to pay attention
- (Mostly has an undertone of being careful, so it's as common in the sense of paying attention to mere information. Also spelled "Acht geben" sometimes.)
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- be empty, be out of stock
see details >2.- be exhausted
- (You're "empty" basically.)
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- by all appearances
- (a rather likely version of "to seem". More for written German)
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- anything but
- (In the sense of "This is all kinds of things... but NOT X")
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- How are you?
- (small talk, not an actual question for friends)
see details >2.- Are you okay?
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- Don't worry. All good.
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- Take care! /Good luck!
- (When saying good bye. Sounds a bit old school.)
see details >2.- Congratulations!
- (ONLY for birthday or name day or maybe the new year. NOT for passing an exam or something similar. There needs to be something "starting".)
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- all in all
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- all the rest, the details
- (usually in context of "remaining part of discussion" and sounds a bit formal. Colloquially, you'd say "der Rest")
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- everything else, the rest
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- as if
see details >2.- "Yeah, right!"
- (as an exclamation of disbelief)
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- as if
- (Pretty much a synonym to "als ob" but not as common in daily life.)
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- Duuude! Daaang.
- (Pretty common way to express that you're really impressed or shocked. Please don't overuse it, though. That'll be cringe.)
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- the best
- (As the ultimate form of "gut")
see details >2.- best would be
- (Usually in the beginning of a sentence)
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- ideally, as a favorite
- (ONLY works in combination with a verb... so "am liebsten machen/tun/haben...". It's the most-version of "gern")
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- on the weekend
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- to trick someone
- (minor kinds of fraud)
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- to go through the roof
- (in the sense of being REALLY angry)
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- to take a drag off a cigarette
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- to be dependent on
- (In the sense of needing something, but NOT for drugs.)
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- to sympathize with/ to feel for someone
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- to turn on
- (Colloquial term, work for car engines, stoves and computers, but NOT for small devices like a phone)
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- to be on welfare
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- to be scolded, to get in trouble
- (Someone letting their anger out at you, usually for a good reason.)
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- to make trouble, to stir up conflict
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- ace up the sleeve
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- right away, on the first attempt
- (When you try something and it succeeds immediately.)
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- for/on the long haul
- (Mainly used for contexts where something would be an issue if it was the permanent solution.)
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- to not understand something (Lit.: "to stand on the hose" - you basically "block" the flow :). For momentary things only.)
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