![]() You don’t really need them in daily life.īut you do need auf-verbs, so here’s a little overview over the most important auf-verbs with their most common translations (when there’s “…”, that means, there are some other not so common translations. I’m just kind of nerding out a bit with these connections. But it does have something to do with being accessible, visible. Of course an open door doesn’t have much to do with idea of on top of. Or a the chieftain standing on top of a rock. ![]() Just think of a tree growing out of the soil. I think the missing link is a notion of coming into the open. to close down) boom, both ideas combined. In fact, take the English verb to open up (vs. ![]() People very early on connected the idea of upward with the idea of open. Like… literally.īecause all these words, a uf, up, open, offen and also über and overcome from the same dramatically ancient Indo-European root for upward. One English speakers would associate with upward, the other clearly with open and it’s the same verb in German. The cat is sitting on the table.(stationary).The Dative expresses that something is on top of something and Accusative tells us that on top of something is the destination of the action. So if you feel shaky about it you should really check that out ( you can find it here).Īnyway, so yeah… auf is a two-way-preposition. That is a very crucial concept in German and we’ve talked about in detail in a separate article. Dative “marks” something as answer to “Where something is (happening)”, Accusative marks something as a destination. The case depends on what YOU want to express. Two-way prepositions can be followed by Dative OR Accusative. Der Tisch and der Preis are both masculine but in the first example we used Dative(dem) while in the second one we used Accusative(den). So auf must be one of what is commonly called two-way preposition. ![]() The colors are there to bring our attention to the fact that there are different cases in the example. Well, not the colors but what they stand for. It’s pretty straight forward, I think and the only real difficulty are – the colors.
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