x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-25 months agoPeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?message-squaremessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down148file-text
arrow-up1117arrow-down1message-squarePeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-25 months agomessage-square144fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMkengine@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoAnd then you also have different meanings depending on pronunciation, here some examples: umfahren: to drive around something or to run over something Montage: the act of assembling or the plural of Monday übersetzen: to ferry across a river or to translate into another language umschreiben: to rewrite or to paraphrase durchschauen: to look through something or to understand unterstellen: to place something underneath or to imply or accuse someone of something unterhalten: to hold something underneath or to support or to converse with someone or to entertain wiederholen: to fetch something back or to repeat something
And then you also have different meanings depending on pronunciation, here some examples:
umfahren: to drive around something or to run over something
Montage: the act of assembling or the plural of Monday
übersetzen: to ferry across a river or to translate into another language
umschreiben: to rewrite or to paraphrase
durchschauen: to look through something or to understand
unterstellen: to place something underneath or to imply or accuse someone of something
unterhalten: to hold something underneath or to support or to converse with someone or to entertain
wiederholen: to fetch something back or to repeat something