auseinandersetzen
Meaning
- (reflexive, weak) to deal with, to occupy oneself with, to look into, to think about
- (formal, transitive, weak) to explain, to make understandable
- (transitive, weak) to disassemble, to take apart
- (transitive, weak) to seat (someone) away from (someone else)
- (reflexive, weak) to (go to) sit separately, to take seat away from each other
Concepts
Opposite of
zusammensetzen, zusammenbauen
Synonyms
verständlich machen
begreiflich machen
auseinander setzen
Gedanken machen
nachgrübeln
durch den Kopf gehen lassen
heranmachen
herumschlagen
Translations
Frequency
Etymology
From auseinander- (“apart”) + setzen (“to set, place”).
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