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This week, learn how to use the German prefix um-! It’s a tricky one, at times ambiguos and having two possible meanings and vastly different usages, but after studying this German lesson, you will find it easy to tell the two apart and understand new words with um-. So, tune in! GermanPod101’s advanced focus lessons present unusual grammar topics that should be interesting to advanced students and lower-level students alike. Be sure to check out the Learning Center for a more extensive vocabulary list of words with the prefixes involved!

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Advanced Focus Season 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Advanced Focus #7 - Um den Heißen Brei Herum”

GermanPod101.com says:

Do you know the idiom that this lesson’s title is referring to?

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Vanessa says:

Ich las es im Wörterbuch. Ich glaube, “um den heißen Brei herum” bedeutet “beat around the bush”. Ist das richtig?

(I read it in the dictionary. I believe “um den heißen Brei herum” means “beat around the bush”. Is that right?)

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Sanna says:

Ich habe dieses Idiom vor kurzem in meinem Deutschkurs gelernt! :-D

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salivia_baker says:

@Vanessa
yes um den heißen Brei herum means to beat around the bush. Germans are less violent, we just think about food *g*

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