What are the Most Common German Separable Prefixes & What Do They Mean?

In this video Herr Antrim explains what the most common separable prefixes in German are and how those prefixes change the meanings of the verbs to which they are attached. There are a ton of separable prefixes for German verbs, but the prefixes in this video are the most used ones. If you master these prefixes, you will be able to use the vast majority of separable verbs (trennbare Verben) in German.
0:00 Introduction
0:57 Disclaimer
2:00 ab-
4:46 an-
7:01 auf-
10:38 aus-
12:23 bei-
14:01 ein-
15:02 fort-
16:10 frei-
17:09 hoch-
18:04 mit-
19:04 nach-
20:19 tief-
21:21 weg-
22:19 zu-
23:17 What's next?
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[@Anonymous-cn6zl]

Ich sehe immer Ihre Videos an, weil sie sehr Hilfreich sind

[@petitpoisbleu2]

Thank you so much for this. I have always struggled with these even though I have learned German for several years. I’ve been forced to learn countless vocabulary lists by heart but I just couldn’t picture the meaning of the words and the ‘logic’ of prefixes, so it never stuck in my mind. Your disclaimer was definitely useful as it explains that we should not expect one word to have an exact equivalent in another language. Yet, there is some common logic and learning foreign languages calls for some intuition.

[@jessicad.f5485]

easily one of the hardest part of learning german. thank you

[@ivanastikovac89]

This is brilliant! You are a born lecturer!

[@pedja72]

Great lecture! You has helped me very much to leran German. Danke schön!

[@LEO_NEX]

Now u need to learn english

[@MegaArti2000]

This was really helpful.

[@laurenkoch5382]

Danke schoen! Dein Video war super hilfreich!!!!

[@sivaram7409]

Actually i had a very big problem with prefix. But at the moment i am able to understand what they mean. Thanks a lot sir

[@bakarkanal1619]

Danke viel mal Herr Antrim

[@RaviProf]

Great job

[@MegaGehendra]

You are intelligent Teacher🙏🙏🙏

[@h3w45]

thank you

[@DE49]

Tolles Video !!!!))))))))))))))))))

[@MrLAntrim]

Danke. 😀

[@afanaashrf2697]

Wonderful

[@MrLAntrim]

Glad to help.

[@lovelylarvly]

Hallo Herr Lehrer, is there any prefixes dictionary available. I find them very hard to learn. Living in Germany since 7 years but no success 🥺🥺🥺

[@deutsch44]

Niiice, logic is the memory's best friend

[@SevilSalahzade-de9ye]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️thanks

[@iamhere6530]

12:53 why is it ein Glas Wasser instead of einem Glas Wasser?(sorry for silly doubt)

[@MrLAntrim]

The glass of water is the direct object of the sentence. It is the thing being brought. That makes it accusative.

[@akoska]

@@MrLAntrim Helo Levi! I have n important question! As u know i have three german learning videochannels, what i subscribed. I saw a video on Lingoni yesterday. Da speaker was a nice girl, Jackeline. Ok, so: She spoke about two german verbs, ANFANGEN and AUFHÖREN. She said, that the word aufhören means to stop in english! But as i knew that to stop is halten in german! Because u r germanteacher, what do you say Levi? Tha second question is also about these 2 verbs, aufhören and anfangen.... But it stands further yet. So Jackeline said, that if we must use one of these words, anfangen or aufhören, we have to put the word MIT, which means WITH in english. But unfortunately when i watched, tried these words in the google's translator, i wrote I FINISHED WORKING YET. It was ICH HÖRTE DIE ARBEIT AUF! There WAS NOT the word, MIT! And i wrote it's opposite, i started to work.... it was ich fange die Arbeit an... Simply just this! Without da word MIT! So whats the truth Levi?

[@iamhere6530]

@@akoska aufhören and aufhalten have similar usage earlier aufhören meant stop what you are doing and listen up but with time listen up dropped, halten means to hold/stop and aufhalten means to hold up/stop ( Herr Antrim explained this in this video 9:40)
i dont think you need to use mit everytime. It's used when you want to "start with/stop with" something
eg : ich fange die Arbeit an. (i start the work)
ich fange mit der Arbeit an. (i start with the work)

[@frogsloveducks1392]

What is the logic in the verb abweichen?
Weichen means to move away and abweichen means to differ, i dont really get it

[@MrLAntrim]

You are figuratively removed from the other person's opinion or whatever it is that "differs" in the context of your usage.
Dieser Bericht weicht vom anfänglichen Entwurf ab. - This report differs from the initial draft.

[@frogsloveducks1392]

@@MrLAntrim thank you

[@Berny23]

Irgendwie üben diese Videos eine seltsame Faszination auf mich aus, obwohl ich Muttersprachler bin. ^^

[@kerrysterll]

You mean motion towards

[@namename2193]

Gestern bin ich nach Stuttgart gefahren

[@MrLAntrim]

Gut geschrieben, aber es gibt in diesem Satz kein Präfix.

[@deutsch44]

22:10 🤣🤣

[@namename2193]

Ich fliege nach Sydney

[@MrLAntrim]

Gut geschrieben, aber es gibt in diesem Satz kein Präfix.

[@namename2193]

Ich fliege nach Brasilien

[@MrLAntrim]

Gut geschrieben, aber es gibt in diesem Satz kein Präfix.

[@karimahmadhamdi8016]

Third

[@namename2193]

Wir wandern nach Norden

[@MrLAntrim]

Gut geschrieben, aber es gibt in diesem Satz kein Präfix.

[@zaaxi7424]

Wir sprechen den Preis ab

[@namename2193]

Ich fahre nach Köln

[@MrLAntrim]

Gut geschrieben, aber es gibt in diesem Satz kein Präfix.

[@namename2193]

Ich fahre nach München

[@MrLAntrim]

Gut geschrieben, aber es gibt in diesem Satz kein Präfix.

[@samuelpulgarin7338]

First

[@namename2193]

Ich komme morgen zu dir

[@MrLAntrim]

Gut geschrieben, aber es gibt in diesem Satz kein Präfix.

[@namename2193]

Ich fahre zu einem Freund von mir

[@MrLAntrim]

Gut geschrieben, aber es gibt in diesem Satz kein Präfix.

[@namename2193]

Ich fliege nach China

[@MrLAntrim]

Gut geschrieben, aber es gibt in diesem Satz kein Präfix.

[@namename2193]

Ich gehe nach Hause

[@MrLAntrim]

Gut geschrieben, aber es gibt in diesem Satz kein Präfix.

[@namename2193]

Geht ihr zum Bäcker

[@MrLAntrim]

Gut geschrieben, aber es gibt in diesem Satz kein Präfix.

[@carldavis1407]

Biegen Sie nach rechts ab, Clyde 😁

[@necmiyeghoul]

learning german is a modern way of self-torture.

[@MrLAntrim]

Still better than watching the evening news...

[@rainbow7548]

even though it is useful, the way and the format you tell all these ,s very boring and tiring. You could try to improve a more engaging teaching style.

[@albertbarese6486]

rude.

[@necmiyeghoul]

@@albertbarese6486 agree indeed.