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nachdenken: think about — meaning and examples | JadoLearn

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nachdenken

think about

to think carefully about or reflect on something

IPA/ˈnaːxˌdɛŋkn̩/

The main stress falls on the separable prefix nach-.

Meaning 1neutral · 88%

to think carefully about or reflect on something

Ich muss noch über die Entscheidung nachdenken.

Wir sollten in Ruhe darüber nachdenken.

Denk bitte kurz nach, bevor du antwortest.

In main clauses, the separable prefix moves to the end: Ich denke darüber nach. The perfect form is hat nachgedacht.

Learn the pattern über etwas nachdenken and remember that the verb is separable.

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What does über ein Problem nachdenken mean?

Nachdenken is a separable intransitive verb. To name the topic, German commonly uses über + accusative.