Answer by Franz Hahn for Two-component separable prefixes in German: What are...
As far as I am aware there is no such thing as you are describing. @biolauri suggested the term Doppelpartikelverb, but it is actually a term originating from the field of Morphologie, which isn't...
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To answer your question of the headline first: You are searching for the German word Doppelpartikelverben (in English, you could use double phrasal verbs or double particle verbs, but as they don’t...
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The categories are about the prefixes, not about the words having those prefixes.The difference between inseparable prefixes and separable ones is fundamental. Inseparable prefixes like be-, ent-, ver-...
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There are names in German for separable prefixes (trennbare Präfixe) and inseparable prefixes (nicht trennbare Präfixe). Prefixes that can be either separable or inseparable are descriptively called...
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