• nottheengineer@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    That’s a good example. The correct way to translate “chop a tree up” would be “einen Baum kleinhacken”.

    einen = a Baum = Tree klein = small (used as in chopping it into small pieces) hacken = chop

    ich_iel would use a translation that fits the individual words, but not the context. “Up” would be translated into “hoch”, which means the direction up.