Or as Goethe put it: “Language, dude. Language.”Īnd I think that’s it. This was our little look at the prefix verb auskommen.

hmm… I guess it’s right. There’s a noun das Auskommenbut that is a rare word for livelihood (means of getting by). d as Ergebnis. Wait what? Let me double check that…. Here it comes, the translation for outcome is…. I’m gonna check out the translation for that right now but I have a feeling that we already know it. In the last example we have the English noun the outcome.

The movie doesn’t need/use a lot of explosions and CGI.

Der Film kommtohne viele Explosionen und Special Effects aus.

Auskommen is not so much about making it through in sense of there being a real challenge , it’s more about a general “making it through” and means getting by, making do, managing withor without something. Though it doesn’t sound as “grave” as to make it through. For that, people back then might have said: “I made it through the meeting with coffee.”.Īnd that is quite close to how auskommen is used today. A bit like we say “I made it through the 10 hour meeting”, only that they would say “We outcame the 10 hour meeting” … well… kind of like that. Now, a good way to “outcome” a boring meeting is with the assistance of Mister Coffee. In case of auskommen we’re dealing with the latter, but in a really, really twisted way.īack a few centuries ago when tomatoes were still tasty and meanings still made sense people still used auskommen as to come out, in context of actual buildings but also in a more abstract sense of coming out of a journey or a period of time. A uskommen has two kinda niche-y yet useful meanings, while the verb for to come out is something else. And if you’re now like “R-version, maybe?” then that means you’re already on the road to being a prefix verb master :)Īuscan add two notions to a verb: switched-off-ness, and outside-ness.

A uskommen does NOT mean to come out. Of course not. It’s a prefix verb. If you’re now like “I’m not so sure, this is right.” then you’ve definitely learned some German already. So naturally it means to come out and all we need to do is look at a couple of examples and boom, new word acquired. Auskommen is a combination of the German word for t o come and the German word for out.

Wie komme ich zum brandenburger tor