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Hallo Martina, Wikipedia to the rescue: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expletivum --> Ebenfalls rhetorisch motiviert ist die Verwendung des Expletivs bei Sätzen wie „Es zogen zwei Burschen ins Felde“
Hi Anne, it's a spelling variation of "proper", meaning something like "acceptable", with a connotation of "bourgeois". A child that is "propper angezogen" would be very clean and tidy and somewhat
Hallo Simon, danke das Du AllExpert die Treue hälst. Wenn Du das Wort in seine Bestandteile zerlegst, hast Du schon die Erklärung. Eine Krankenvertretung vertritt einen Kranken in dessen Funktion
Hi Simon, today's usage would mostly be that of trade/transport, as in "(Hafen X) ist eine Drehscheibe des internationalen Handels." In fact, the original meaning is transport-related - see the first
Hi Simon, I've always taken it to refer to the old custom of crumbling bread into the soup, mostly because soup used to be an end-of-the-week dish, with lots of leftovers, and the bread would have been

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