User talk:RDBury

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 22:47, 7 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

couteau de chasse[edit]

See my changes. {{obs}} should not be used for this purpose. I am not sure why it was created by that user, but I will remove it. Jamesjiao → T ◊ C 22:25, 7 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Help[edit]

https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Backinstadiums&namespace=all&tagfilter=&topOnly=1&hideMinor=1&start=&end=&limit=500 --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:49, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand. --RDBury (talk) 02:03, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

nehmen[edit]

Hello RDBury, thanks for the overhaul of the entry. Great work. I would only suggest to change the usex under 2. In this instance I would expext nehmen with a prefix (ab-, weg-). As far as I can see, ditransitive nehmen alone is mainly used with abstract nouns as in jmdm. den Mut/die Angst/die Möglichkeit, etwas zu tun,/den Wind aus den Segeln nehmen. So perhaps something like Die Niederlage nahm der Mannschaft den Mut. would be better. What do you think? --Akletos (talk) 18:31, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I'm not a native speaker so, even though I take pains to avoid it, sometimes I do miss subtleties in usage such as this. What you're saying makes sense, if it's a concrete noun then it must be going in some direction in the transfer, so why not add the corresponding prefix? Of course finding the right German phrase is only half the job since it also has to be translated into idiomatic English. You'd think that would be the easy part for me but sometimes I wonder :) --RDBury (talk) 19:04, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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