auseinandersetzen

Meaning

  1. (reflexive, weak) to deal with, to occupy oneself with, to look into, to think about
  2. (formal, transitive, weak) to explain, to make understandable
  3. (transitive, weak) to disassemble, to take apart
  4. (transitive, weak) to seat (someone) away from (someone else)
  5. (reflexive, weak) to (go to) sit separately, to take seat away from each other

Opposite of
zusammensetzen, zusammenbauen
Frequency

27k
Etymology

From auseinander- (“apart”) + setzen (“to set, place”).

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