• fristislurper
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    1 year ago

    German also does this. I think a good 20% of all verbs are just variations of “ziehen” (to pull).

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      Umziehen - to change clothes, to move to a new home

      aufziehen - to tease or ridicule someone, to wind up a clockwork, to raise kids

      abziehen - to leave, to scam someone, to pull something off something else

      herziehen - to gossip about someone

      Anziehen - to attract something, to put on clothes

      Yeah there are some of these for ziehen. You might be on to something. But for many generic verbs there are many variants with vastly different meanings. Like Machen - to make, or tun - to do, gehen - to go.