Learn about German prefixes
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| Chuck: This is Advanced Focus Lesson 9. |
| Judith: Willkommen! |
| Chuck: Welcome to another Advanced Focus Lesson. This series is all about understanding German verb prefixes, such as [ab, an, ver, zer, auf and others]. |
| Judith: Learn these prefixes, German vocabulary will start to make a lot more sense to you. |
| Chuck: So, which prefixes we’re looking at today? |
| Judith: Today we shall look the German prefix [ent-]. |
| Chuck: Sounds good. But, before we start let me just remind you that you can also review this lesson as a PDF at GermanPod101.com. |
| Judith: In the PDF for each Advanced Focus Lesson, you can find a lot more words using the prefixes we introduced. |
| Chuck: Not just the words we mentioned in this podcast but also others used in the same prefix. |
| Judith: It’s an easy way to improve your German vocabulary. I do hope you’ll use this tool. |
| Chuck: Now, let’s talk about the prefix [ent-]. |
| Judith: [Die Vorsilbe “ent-” spaltet sich nicht ab. Zum Beispiel sagen wir: “Kolumbus hat die neue Welt entdeckt”]. |
| Chuck: “Columbus discovered the new world.” So, this is a non-separable prefix. The word isn’t split in two under any circumstances. |
| Judith: [Die Bedeutung von “ent-” ist oft, dass etwas wegfällt]. |
| Chuck: “Something dropping out”. Falling away, even being removed or disappearing on its own. |
| Judith: [Bei dem Wort “entdecken”, ist es die Decke, die wegfällt]. |
| Chuck: The word [entdecken], “to discover”, contains the word [Decke], “blanket”. So, you get the imagine of a blanket being removed from something. Isn’t [decken], “ to cover” as well? |
| Judith: Yes. |
| Chuck: Okay. [Kannst du uns andere Beispiele geben]? |
| Judith: [Ja, zum Beispiel “entfernen”]. |
| Chuck: “To remove”, based on the notion of [fern], “far away”. |
| Judith: [Oder entkommen]. |
| Chuck: “To get away, escape”. |
| Judith: [Oder “entlassen”]. |
| Chuck: “To lay off”, literally let someone fall away. |
| Judith: [Wörter, die auf Deutsch mit “Ent” anfangen, werden auf Englisch oft mit:] “away”, “of”, “out”, “be”, “this” [übersetzt]. |
| Chuck: [Ent] with this prefix is often translated with “away”, “of”, “out”, “be” or “this” in English. |
| Judith: [entscheiden]. |
| Chuck: “To decide”. |
| Judith: [entnehmen]. |
| Chuck: “To take something out of a container”. |
| Judith: [entsenden]. |
| Chuck: “To dedicate” or “send out”. |
| Judith: [entkleiden]. |
| Chuck: “To dissolve” or “undress”. |
| Judith: It’s easy to understand prefixes when thinking about its meaning, rather than the structure of the English word. |
| Chuck: Thank you for the overview of prefix [ent-]. |
| Judith: Thank you for helping me explaining it, Chuck. |
| Chuck: And thanks for our listeners for listening to our podcast and making it so popular. |
| Judith: If you’re listening to this on iTunes, do go to GermanPod101.com and check out our other podcasts and materials as well. |
| Chuck: GermanPod101 is a comprehensive site with lessons on everything. |
| Judith: So, hope to see you there. |
| Chuck: See you there. |
| Judith: [Bis nächstes Mal]! |
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