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schaden: harm — meaning and examples | JadoLearn

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schaden

harm

to have a harmful or damaging effect on someone or something

IPA/ˈʃaːdn̩/

The main stress follows standard German pronunciation.

Meaning 1neutral · 88%

to have a harmful or damaging effect on someone or something

Dauerhaft zu wenig Schlaf schadet der Gesundheit.

Starke Hitze kann dem Kunststoff schaden.

Eine falsche Aussage kann dem Ruf der Firma schaden.

The key grammar point is the dative: der Gesundheit schaden, dem Material schaden, jemandem schaden.

Say Das schadet mir, not Das schadet mich.

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schaden is used with a dative object: jemandem/etwas schaden. It does not normally take a direct accusative object.