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Gehen versus fahren

Tomn
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Gehen versus fahren

Postby Tomn » July 19th, 2015 11:05 am

In the Survival series lesson 20, fahren is defined as traveling as a passenger or to drive and in most of the travel lessons, fahren is used as the verb. In lesson 26 which is travel by taxi, gehen is used instead of fahren. I don't remember the lesson where I saw that the definition of gehen, but I remember that as being defined as to travel by foot. Am I misinterpreting the sentence or misunderstanding the definition of the verbs?
Thanks ... Tom

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Re: Gehen versus fahren

Postby german.innovative » July 27th, 2015 11:30 pm

Hallo Tom,

Danke für den Kommentar und die Frage!

In this case it means the person wants to go to the TV tower so "gehen" is used. He could also say "Ich möchte mit dem Taxi zum Fernsehturm fahren." (I want to go to the TV tower by taxi.) in which case you would have to use "fahren" as it refers to going by taxi.

I hope this helps!

Vielen Dank!

Clara
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