Read a compound from its final element
The first part narrows the meaning of the last. Knowing the components helps, but the conventional meaning and plural still belong to the whole dictionary word. Linking elements can appear between parts, so the join is not always a bare concatenation.
Das Arbeitszimmer ist klein. Die Haustür ist offen.
The study is small. The front door is open.
A spelling ending is not necessarily a suffix
The derivational suffix in die Anmeldung is a useful gender clue. Der Sprung has the same final three letters but is not formed with that suffix. Use the actual word structure, and check the dictionary when a word is unfamiliar.
Die Freiheit ist wichtig.
Freedom is important.
Learn the whole prefix verb
A word family groups related vocabulary, but a prefix cannot always be assigned one fixed meaning. Einkaufen is separable, while verkaufen is inseparable. Learn the verb’s meaning, clause behaviour and participle together.
Nora kauft ein. Tim verkauft sein Fahrrad.
Nora goes shopping. Tim sells his bicycle.
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