I wrote:
why was there any confusion about this word, if the meaning changes with the preposition?
Am 10.04.2019 um 22:53 schrieb De'vID:
Huh?
Just to be clear: I am really just asking this because of lack of knowledge, without any sarcasm or irony or nitpicking or whatsoever.
{DIl} means that the subject is giving out something, to obtain something or fulfil a financial obligation. A short way to gloss that in English is "pay for". But English is inconsistent in that you pay for a meal, pay rent, pay off a mortgage, etc.
It's similar in German, but also slightly different, so that's why many German translations in boQwI' might be a little off after we got clarification, even when te English defintion did not change. "pay" and "pay for" are both "bezahlen", but then other situations use the word "zahlen".
Same thing for {SIch}. The intended meaning is something like "extend oneself to make contact with the object". A short way to gloss that in English is "reach". Meanings related to this are expressed with prepositions in English: reach for, reach towards, reach out, etc.
Oh dear - the more I learn about the word "reach", the more confusing it gets. :-/ Dictionary.com gives me 10 way to use the verb, and then even the object can be a different one, depending on the preposition. I'll wait for more examples till I understand this entirely. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/StarTrekDiscovery