Setzen, stellen oder legen – oh, I’ll just put it there!

A few years ago a student was talkingin German about items on atable. He said:”Ich putze das Buchauf den Tisch und ich putze den Kuli…” I was puzzled by the word ‘putzen’ as it means to dust or clean. Was he saying that he dusted the items? So I asked him and he was surprised because he thought ‘putzen’ was the German translation of ‘to put’. If only [...]

The post Setzen, stellen oder legen – oh, I’ll just put it there! appeared first on Angelika's German Tuition & Translation.