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- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgespieltPreterite (written past): spielte rumsee details >1.
- to play around
- Perfect (spoken past): ist rumgezogenPreterite (written past): zog rumsee details >1.
- to move around
- (Either moving around town with friends, or in the sense of moving from settlement to settlement. Think of a circus for example. Though in the latter context, "umherziehen" is more idiomatic because.... reasons #reasonsarethebest)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat (he)rumgebrachtPreterite (written past): brachte (he)rum1.
- to pass
- (colloquial for passing time)
see details >2.- to bring over/by
- (casual for bringing something to someone's place )
- Perfect (spoken past): hat herumgetragenPreterite (written past): trug herumsee details >1.
- to carry around
- (In a literal sense primarily used on context of not wanting to carry something around. Think of a heavy backpack when visiting a new city. Both um- and herum- are idiomatic and mean the same. "herum" is a bot more fancy.)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgealbertPreterite (written past): alberte rumsee details >1.
- to fool around
- (In the sense of making silly jokes with friends. )
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgeärgertPreterite (written past): ärgerte rumsee details >1.
- to deal with, to fight with
- (Colloquial, used ONLY in context of dealing with some hassle. The self reference has to be there and it's in Accusative)
- Perfect (spoken past): ist rumgefahrenPreterite (written past): fuhr rum1.
- to drive/ride around it
- (In the sense of making a tour. Think of driving around a lake.)
see details >2.- to drive around
- (In the sense of aimless driving.)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgefragtPreterite (written past): fragte rumsee details >1.
- to ask around
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgegammeltPreterite (written past): gammelte rumsee details >1.
- to hang around doing nothing
- (slang)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgegebenPreterite (written past): gab rumsee details >1.
- to hand around in a circle
- (Think of a meeting where some object is passed around for everyone to see. Can also be "herumgeben".)
- Perfect (spoken past): ist rumgegangenPreterite (written past): ging rum1.
- to go/walk around
- (IN the literal sense of walking around something. Sounds a bit stiff though. "drumrum gehen" is more common in daily life - and yes, I am not kidding. For walking around aimlessly, the right word is rumlaufen, btw.)
see details >2.- to go by, to pass
- (For time, usually in contexts where it is going slowly. Synonymous mit "vergehen" in this sense, but only used for small stretches of time. Think a boring bus ride. Oh and no, "her-" does NOT work!)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgehabtPreterite (written past): hatte rumsee details >1.
- to want around it
- (Colloquial - usually combined with "wollen" and the preposition "um".)
- Perfect (spoken past): ist rumgekommenPreterite (written past): kam rum1.
- to come around
- (In the sense of travelling and seeing many places.)
2.- to come by
- (For casual visits or coming by in a bar or stuff like that. Quite common in daily life. No real difference to "vorbeikommen".)
see details >3.- to come around
- (In the sense of being able to go around a physical obstacle. For figurative obstacles "drum herumkommen" is more common.)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgemeckertPreterite (written past): meckerte rumsee details >1.
- to nag, to bitch about
- (rummeckern an+Dat, colloquial)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgenörgeltPreterite (written past): nörgelte rumsee details >1.
- to nag continuously
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgeschriebenPreterite (written past): schrieb rumsee details >1.
- to "write around"
- (Super colloquial verb, that is sometimes used for writing back and forth on messengers like Whatsapp or Signal. )
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgesetztPreterite (written past): setzte rumsee details >1.
- to sit down all around
- (In the very literal sense of sitting down in a circle around something, like a camp fire, for example. Usually used reflexively and with "um" as preposition - "sich rumsetzen um". Sounds VERY colloquial.)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgestandenPreterite (written past): stand rumsee details >1.
- to stand around
- (Works for people and things. Implies being idle or useless.)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgestelltPreterite (written past): stellte rumsee details >1.
- to put around, to surround
- ( "rumstellen (um)" - ONLY for literally putting objects around another object. Think of putting chairs all around a table. NOT for any figurative uses or for surrounding in sense of capturing.)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat rumgetriebenPreterite (written past): trieb rumsee details >1.
- to be
- (A colloquial word for being in an area, doing things. With an undertone of mischief. Often used for adolescents.)
- Perfect (spoken past): hat umgesiedeltPreterite (written past): siedelte umsee details >1.
- to resettle, to settle somewhere else
- (If you resettle yourself, spoken past is with "sein". If you resettle a population, spoken past is with "haben".)
Here's a quick overview with translations. For family, examples and more check the details.
