Question for German native speakers: do you also try to simply learn all separable/non-separable verbs by heart or do you actually develop some sort of intuition for them? Especially for durch- which doesn't seem to have any rules?
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@astefanowitsch @creepy_owlet
Nice
Another example here is
UMfahren - run someone/something over
and
UmFAHRE - drive around someone/something
I sometimes half-jokingly wonder if any foreigners actually learn German, or do they also just get by somehow? Like, I know a guy from the USSR who went to school here, and he still doesn't speak well.
@creepy_owlet
Native German speaker here and i have to say, i don't know 😬
I remember a friend of mine learning German. He asked me how to say a certain expression. I told him. He adapted it to a slightly different context and i had to tell him "in that case it's totally different"
I regularly joke that i feel very lucky to be German and therefore speak German because learning German as a second language is SO hard
@creepy_owlet Just learn the stress pattern when you learn the word (which you need to do anyway to pronounce them correctly): stress on the prefix => separable, stress on the verb stem => non-separable. Your example "durchbrechen": DURCHbrechen “break sth apart” => separable; durchBRECHen “break through sth (like a barrier)” => non-separable.