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What is the difference between staunen and erstaunen ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between staunen and erstaunen ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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16 Aug 2019
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It's basically an transitive and intransitive pair. Those are quite rare in German (as well as in English), but they exist.
staunen: refering to the state of being surprised/amazed by, a person is generally the subject
erstaunen: the "amazing/wonderous object/person/....." is normally the subject, but it can be used as both "to amaze" and "to be amazed
Der Anblick erstaunte sie (The sight amazed her)
Die war wegen/ob des Anblickes erstaunt. (she was amazed by the sight)
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It's basically an transitive and intransitive pair. Those are quite rare in German (as well as in English), but they exist.
staunen: refering to the state of being surprised/amazed by, a person is generally the subject
erstaunen: the "amazing/wonderous object/person/....." is normally the subject, but it can be used as both "to amaze" and "to be amazed
Der Anblick erstaunte sie (The sight amazed her)
Die war wegen/ob des Anblickes erstaunt. (she was amazed by the sight)
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