• Craig

  

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  Re: German word for: over-improved?

  Sun, July 3, 2005 - 12:53 PM

  I'm afraid my deutsch doesn't include that word. I immediately tried to construct it only to come up with verbessern! It should start with 'ver' the morpheme for things going wrong like 'verlieren', 'vergehen', etc. and then put on 'make better'.
  
  Sorry not to be much help.
  
  Craig

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• • sonya

    

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    Re: German word for: over-improved?

    Mon, July 4, 2005 - 7:26 PM

    i might be wrong, but is it not correct to say something is uber-verbessert?

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  • • Craig

      

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      Re: German word for: over-improved?

      Tue, July 5, 2005 - 1:37 PM

      
      Well, I'm not a native speaker, and don't even really have native competence, but hearing "überverbessern" in the context we're describing would be instantly understandable to me, anyway. Like "way overdone".
      
      Guess I'd better find a native speaker!

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