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What is the difference between bescheiden and entscheiden ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between bescheiden and entscheiden ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Bescheiden means that youre not so materialistic and greedy and entscheiden means to decide
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completely different: modest = bescheiden, decide = entscheiden
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Danke. :) Aber ich habe das Word "bescheiden" auch als Verb in einem Zeitungsartikel gelesen, und ich bin ein bisschen verwirrt darüber, was es als Verb bedeuten könnte.
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To give something non materialistic through words
Which could be a feeling or something
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Ich grabe die Frage nach fünf Jahren noch einmal aus, weil meine Kinder mich gerade dasselbe gefragt haben und ich mir selbst nicht ganz sicher über die Antwort bin (40 Jahre alter Muttersprachler). Ich denke der Unterschied ist:
Entscheiden ist eine aktive Tätigkeit: Ich entscheide mich für Zitroneneis.
Bescheiden (als verb) ist passiv; jemand anderes hat die Entscheidung für mich getroffen: Mir wurde beschieden wir viel Steuern ich bezahlen muss (siehe SidewaysToTheSuns Zitat)
Bescheiden (als Adjektiv): Modest / humble
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