Comment on Uh, just a hint of an accent

• jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Well, it would come from “ver- schwind -en -ung”, so the closest translation to English might be something like “for-dwindling”… but the English “for-” seems to have lost some of the versatility of the German “ver-”, so the closest modern word that comes to mind is using the “shrink” meaning of “schwinden”, and translate as “enshrinkening”. Ultimately they’d all be synonyms.

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  • Schmuppes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    No matter how much you try to hack the word into pieces, dude: “Verschwinden” translates to “to vanish”.

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    • jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Meanwhile, “to vanish” has several synonyms, and it just happens some can be built following almost the same composition rules.

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