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What is the difference between verfallen and ablaufen ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between verfallen and ablaufen ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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They mean the same for example both:
Mein Ticket verfÀllt
Mein Ticket ist abgelaufen.
are right.
But verfallen can also mean that you fall for someone/something, get addicted to someone/something, become a slave for someone/something. For example:
Sie verfiel ihm.
Sie verfielen den Drogen.
So abgelaufen always means that the time of something run out or is going to, while verfallen can also mean to fall for someone/something (It's sounds rather unnatural to actually say one of the example sentences with verfallen from the top in spoken German, but if you read books this verb will be used a lot of times in this context).
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Der Gutschein verfÀllt, falls man den bis zum 20.01.2016 nicht benutzt.
Mein chinesisches Visum ist schon 2 Monaten als abgelaufen. (GĂŒltigkeit verloren hat)
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They mean the same for example both:
Mein Ticket verfÀllt
Mein Ticket ist abgelaufen.
are right.
But verfallen can also mean that you fall for someone/something, get addicted to someone/something, become a slave for someone/something. For example:
Sie verfiel ihm.
Sie verfielen den Drogen.
So abgelaufen always means that the time of something run out or is going to, while verfallen can also mean to fall for someone/something (It's sounds rather unnatural to actually say one of the example sentences with verfallen from the top in spoken German, but if you read books this verb will be used a lot of times in this context).
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